Notes

16. Irving, Hitler's War, p. 332. Hitler's alleged prohibition of Jewish liquidation was based on a note in Himmler's pocket telephone book, according to which, on 30 November 1941 Himmler telephoned Heydrich in Prague from Hitler's bunker at the Wolf's Lair. The note of his conversation with Heydrich read: "Judentransport aus Berlin. Keine Liquidierung." Many of Irving's critics pointed out that Irving misused the document to support his thesis. While Himmler's note referred merely to a single transport from Germany, it was presented by Irving as clear proof that Hitler forbade the liquidation of the Jews -- Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., "The Selling of Adolf Hitler: David Irving's Hitler's War," in M.R. Marrus (ed. ), The Nazi Holocaust (London, 1989), p. 35; Broszat, "Hitler and the Genesis of the 'Final Solution'," pp. 103-6.