bombsaway wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:14 pm
OKW files also "appeared" post-war. Boehm report was pulled from Raeder's files. This issue of "convenience" is funny to me considering their motives were to put Boehm's report forward by the defense because something like 798-PS (which you think is more reliable) has Hitler saying things like "I am only afraid that at the last moment some swine or other will yet submit to me a plan for mediation."
That's much more believable, since after repeated rejections of legitimate peace offers, any of the Allies submitting a supposed plan for mediation "last moment" would likely be doing so disingenuously in an attempt to salvage their own appearance, knowing they have no actual intent in reconciliation but putting Hitler into a precarious PR position.
The bottom line is that none of these versions have a reliable chain of custody or verifiable provenance. They are all purported to be notes or summaries, not verbatim transcripts, leaving ample room for errors, omissions, or even fabrication. The inconsistencies and contradictions between them only deepen our doubts. Most suspicious are the versions that emerged post-war under questionable circumstances, like the Lochner version with its tall tale of origins, or the Boehm version conveniently produced for Raeder's defense at Nuremberg. The burden of proof must be on
demonstrating authenticity, not on proving fakery - and that burden simply has not been met for any of these documents. Historians who rely on them as definitive are building houses of cards.
You'll throw out more words, bombsaway, because that is what you do, to portray an illusion of ongoing debate, suggesting it is complex when it isn't. This is what the Zionists/Israelis do to the narrative on Israel-Palestine. They try to portray it as "complex, multifaceted, hard to understand", when they are simply bombing and terrorizing all of the men, women, and children of Palestine until they all flee the region or die within it (allowing Israel to annex it). By 'splitting hairs' to keep the debate going when your position no longer holds weight, you aim to give the impression to the layman reader that you still have a leg to stand on when, to any informed researcher, you clearly do not. You have done this in dozens of threads by now, sometimes extending through many pages within.
How is the weather in Israel, by the way?