An Untenable Claim

I think this is an untenable claim:-

The Warsaw Ghetto rising and the attempted revolts in Treblinka and Sobibor merely frightened the regime into accelerating the genocide.

It was written by Peter Pulzer, Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College whose recent books include Jews and the German State 1848-1933: The political history of a minority, 2003.

It is in a book review of Saul Friedländer's THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945 in the TLS.

I left this comment there at the TLS site:-

Pulzer's claim that "The Warsaw Ghetto rising and the attempted revolts in Treblinka and Sobibor merely frightened the regime into accelerating the genocide" is remarkable. The implication can only be that less Jews would have been killed had the revolts never taken place and I would counter that that is untrue. Nazi policy was the extermination of the Jewish people. Slower or faster, the end result was the final solution. Speeded up or not, Jews were being killed and were intended to be eliminated.

His statement could be interpreted as not only an accusation against those that arose to fight back, but as attempting to reduce the responsibility of the Allies for allowing the policy of extermination to continue. The Allies ignored and avoided the possibility of actively interfering and obstructing the death operation. The slowly down of the Nazi death policy could effectively been accomplished by bombing railway tracks, for example, but was rejected. Pulzer does a disservice.

As I ran out of characters, that's all I could fit in.