In his 1987 survey of the historiography of the Holocaust,
the Canadian historian Michael Marrus wrote that recent research pointed towards the authenticity of the L-3 document.[13] Christopher Browning, an American historian of the Holocaust, stated in 2004 that the L-3 document, which contains the Armenian quote, is not likely to be an accurate version of what Hitler said but an "apocalyptic" version that was purposefully leaked by the Poles to gain the support of Western nations.[14] German historian
Tobias Jersak [de] cites the statement as evidence that Hitler believed that crimes committed during wartime would be overlooked. According to this interpretation, Hitler planned to unleash genocide upon the outbreak of war: "war would serve as a cover for extermination and the fighting would conceal the real war aim".[15]: 575
According to Margaret L. Anderson in 2010, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley,
"we have no reason to doubt the remark is genuine" and that, regardless of whether it is, the Armenian Genocide had achieved "iconic status... as the apex of horrors imaginable in 1939" and that Hitler used it to persuade the German military that committing genocide might provoke condemnation but would lead to no serious consequences for the perpetrator nation.[16] Historian Stefan Ihrig writes that the document containing the Armenian reference and its provenance is "sketchy, and the sentence in question is absent in other accounts of the meeting" but he adds that it is possible "that others did not write down this remark".[6] Ihrig argues elsewhere that the Armenian genocide partially inspired the Holocaust but that there is "no smoking gun".[6]
The reference is now inscribed on one of the walls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.[18][19] In 2009 the International Association of Genocide Scholars used the quote in a letter to Barack Obama advocating recognition of the Armenian Genocide.[20]
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