Sunday Telegraph, June 19, 1977, p.17, "Letters to the Editor"
Hitler and the Jews
As a Jew who managed to escape from nazi Germany, I was a little surprised to hear that an author has actually claimed "hitler knew nothing about the mass-murder of six million Jews," having " sked" only for their "deportation". Hitler demanded the extermination of the Jews from the very beginning of his carreer. He expressly rejected what he called the "motional antisemisism"" of his forerunners and rivals as it worked merely on and off; he urged "a rational antisemisism" which would do way <with the Jews (root and branch). How else was he to deal with creatures he described as "the racial tuberculosis of the nations," "bacilli worse than Black Death"? By deportation? Yes, to the ante-(gas)chambers of extermination.
He wrote about it, he shouted it from the roof-tops, and "wherever Hitler spoke, murder could be excepted to follow" (writes Konrad Haiden, the classic historian of the Nazi movement, who knew first hand what he was talking about). At the pick of his power, in 1941, Hitler had every right to jeer at those "silly fools" who could not beleive the mounting evidence of Nazi bestiality: they "ought to have read what I have written not once, but a thousand times.
C. C. Aronsfeld, Harrow.

Sunday Telegraph, 26 juin 1977
No evidence offered
Your correspondent C.C. Aronsfeld implies that I ignore in pmy book (Hitler's war" the evidence proving hitler's guilt in the extermination of the Jewzs. But Aronsfeld himself was one of the authorities on the Jewish Holocaus to whom I appealed for such evidence when completing mly research. (the others included the Yivo Institute for jewish research, the wiener library, Lucy. S. Dawidowicz, and the antidefamation league) and all offered their apologies, except Pr Raul Hilberg, author of the standard history on the subject, who honourably conceded that he too has come to the view tht Hitler may not have known.
Davdi Irving, London W1.