Correct. That is why I am "backtracking and scrambling". I am not your 24h/7d a week employee. I do things at my rate, including spend time verifying every piece of the document you had presented.
You're supposed to do this "verification"
before posting about it. That's why your initial "analysis" was simply parroting what Alvarez said, and you had to "spend time" over the last few weeks figuring out a way to make what you unthinkingly repeated sound plausible.
Too bad you failed.
2. Document S-IV D-5o5/42g-451
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"S-IV D-5o5/42g-451" isn't the office code of that document, SnakeTongue. That's the filing code for the document under whose regulatory authority this document is being promulgated. The office code part of that filing code indicates the previous document being referenced came from IV D, Besetzte Gebiete, which was the Gestapo office responsible for criminal cases involving foreign laborers.
That's why the filing code includes the note "ausl.Arb.", which is found on the other IV D documents dealing with foreign workers (see, for example, Nuremberg document NO-1384, Kaltenbrunner's letter of 1 August 1943 about abortions for pregnant Polish and other Eastern European workers).
The agency title is given on this document, "Der Reichsfuhrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei", but there's no department title or office code. The filing code is handwritten in the stamped area showing the date the document was received, and is "3/43g".
Did you even
read the
page you found that document at?
3. Document Kdo. g4 (Adj.) Nr. 7 II/42 (g.).
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This is merely a missive detailing the planned program for Heydrich's state funeral, sent by the Chief of the Ordnungspolizei to the various Orpo personnel (none of whom, as far as I can tell, were also members of the SS - Orpo personnel who held ranks in both organizational structures, like our old friend Friedrich Pradel, were usually described in documents by both ranks, with the SS rank taking precedence, which is why Pradel's insistence on being addressed by his Orpo rank of "major" was so unusual and memorable to his contemporaries).
Since the Orpo was not part of the RSHA, and thus would not have used any code or formatting for an RSHA office in a strictly internal Orpo document, I have no idea why you think this document is relevant when interpreting a document with an RSHA office code.
4. Document 2 F 2/3 - Mi/Da -
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This is also not an RSHA document. For one thing, Aemter in the RSHA were always described with Roman numerals, not the standard numerals in this document (in cases where the Roman numerals couldn't be used, like in the telegrams I showed you before, the abbreviation "Roem" for "Roman" was used to indicate that). Plus, even if this were supposed to be a document sent from a section of Amt II, there was no "II F".
Secondly, the circled part is neither an office code nor a filing code for this document. It's the
subject of this document. That's why it's in the section labeled "Betrifft" - the same way the "Betrifft" of your "document 2" up there is new security procedures regarding groups of foreign laborers, and the "Betrifft" of "document 3" is the transport of the body of and state funeral for Heydrich.
This is just a document sent by the Generalkommissar in Riga to his subordinate in charge of labor management, regarding "Ostarbeiter", the Eastern European foreign forced laborers, and has nothing to do with RSHA office codes.
5. Document IV B 4 a - 847/41
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Finally, a document that matches the format used on Rauff's letter. Unfortunately, your interpretation is, shall we say,
flawed.
And, again, did you
read the site where you found this document? If you're trying to prove the Holocaust never happened, you probably shouldn't cite as things you accept as authentic documents that prove the Holocaust happened.
Additional signs of inconsistency are noticed on the sending office code. Since the author of the document deal with a specific subject, the “?” should be the number/letter representing the department responsible for the subject discussed in the document:
No, that's not how things worked. The rest of the German governmental bureaucracy operated according to standards first issued during the Wiemar Republic, in September 1926. The formatting of RSHA documents, however, was done according to a specific version of those standards, issued on June 1, 1940, by the head of the personnel office, Amt I: SS-Brigadefuehrer Bruno Streckenbach.
In Streckenbach's RSHA-specific standards, the office code has nothing to do with the subject, but with the
sending office. Specifically, it was the office code associated with what was called the "referent": the head of the department under whose authority the document was being sent (which was usually, though not always, the department that originated the document). In other words, since the March 26, 1942 letter was being sent out under Rauff's name and with his signature, it bore his office code (which is properly called an "institutional symbol"). This is especially important because the letter involves two other RSHA departments, which was Rauff's area of authority. Pradel himself, as the referent of II D 3a, had no authority when dealing with other departments - he was only the midlevel managerial conduit between the motor pool and the department head. So, a document sent under the authority of his Referat, II D 3a, was meaningless anywhere outside II D itself. That's why Rauff's authority as overall department head was needed, and why the document bears his signature.
[EDIT: Streckenbach's standards established three forms of signatures: a Referent or department head signing for themselves, a subordinate one rank below signing for his superior
im Vertretung, or "iV", and a subordinate of other ranks signing
im Auftrag, or "iA". Someone signing "iV" did not need permission from their superior, but "iA" was only ever used when the superior directed a subordinate to write a letter that the superior would then sign. In Yaacov Lozowick's study of the RSHA's bureaucratic system, he noted that Streckenbach was vague in his instructions about the department name ("office code"), and subordinates writing under their superiors' signatures would often not include their own (ie, the subordinate's) office code. This means that the March 26, 1942 document was probably written by one of Rauff's subordinates (possibly even below Pradel) but that it was written under the
specific instructions of Rauff, and under the authority of Rauff's position as department head,
not the position or office of the subordinate writing the letter.]
Document 5 is an example of a document produced by a specific department and signed by a high rank official.
No it's not, since Heydrich's interaction with Eichmann's IV B 4 was entirely atypical of the RSHA bureaucratic structure. Heydrich, as head of the RSHA itself, had no Referent code himself. And Adolf Eichmann's office, unlike all the other Referaten in the RSHA, reported directly to Heydrich - Pradel, as head of II D 3a, had to go up through Rauff at II D and Nockemann at II before reaching Heydrich's level, but Eichmann at IV B 4 bypassed Hartl at IV B and Mueller at IV completely.
In addition, Heydrich generally assigned Eichmann to write directives for him, something he did not do with any other subordinate in the RSHA. He particularly did this for tasks and instructions regarding the Final Solution, which is why all the invitation letters to the Wannsee Conference and the document sent out with the minutes and protocol from the Conference were sent from Eichmann's office under Heydrich's signature.
The serial identification of the document 1 was produced by handwriting while in all other documents it was produced by typewriting. A comparison of the sending office code pattern of document 1 with the header in the document 4 reveals an underlining contradiction.
It's not a "serial identification", it's a filing code. And, as I noted, your "document 2"
also has a handwritten filing code (and your "document 5" has
two filing codes - 847/41 typed on it from when it was sent, and 380/41 half-handwritten and half-stamped in the received stamp - Eichmann's IV B 4 had a file numbering system completely separate from the rest of the RSHA's file numbering system).
The filing code was applied by a clerk which was responsible for organizing incoming and outgoing mail for each department, filing it, and sending it on to the correct recipient. This clerk, called a
Verteiler (distributor), would look over each letter he received, number it, file it in an existing file, and if necessary open a new file if the document didn't belong in any existing file. Often (if he was located close enough to the office drafting the document) the Verteiler could be consulted and the filing and numbering could be done on the spot. Otherwise, the filing and numbering was done when the document was received instead of when it was sent - this is particularly the case when letters were sent to or from outside the RSHA.
The Verteiler also had a constantly-updated list of the proper forms of address used by and for everyone, which is why Rauff (or anyone else) didn't have to remember that Friedrich Pradel liked to be addressed as "Major" - there was staff to do the remembering
for them.
Document 1 also differs from all others documents due the absence of the official stamp used to track documents.
False, since the Orpo document only has a "Secret" stamp on it, and does not have a receiving stamp.
The supposedly author of the
document 1 clearly define in an
affidavit and an
interrogation that he was not part of the sending office when the document was theoretically issued.
No, he doesn't. He lies in one statement, and you're papering over those lies by taking parts of his other statement. The two statements are directly contradictory, which is why you have to do that.
"I was chief of this technical section from February 1940 until March 1940. From May 1940 to May 1941 I was in the German navy. From September 1941 to May 1942 I was in Prague. I then became chief of the section again from May 1942 to June 1942."
He quite clearly is saying he was only head of the RSHA's technical department for 1-2 months in early 1940, and then wasn't head of the department (and he implies he had nothing to do with the department at all) until 1-2 months in mid 1942.
And, as all the statements of his contemporaries, available documentation, and his own 1972 deposition reveal,
is not true.
Comparison with other official documents from the German Third Reich offices reveals evident discrepancies on the document 1 header.
Something you utterly
failed in your attempt to prove.