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The recent publication of the first three volumes of Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” ( Gesamtausgabe volumes 94-96) has given rise to a new genre of apologetics. In seeking to minimize or deny the philosopher’s intellectual support for Third Reich criminality, his more vehement supporters have perpetuated the Master’s obfuscations and dissemblance. One finds a particularly egregious instance of these practices in the case of two recent “essays” by longtime Heidegger editor, Peter Trawny: Heidegger and Anti-Semitism and The Freedom to Wander with Heidegger. This is the same Peter Trawny who, while editing GA ( Die Geschichte des Seyns), saw fit to omit the philosopher’s claim that “one must ask oneself what the basis is for the particular predetermination of the Jewish community for planetary criminality.” In retrospect, this remark stands as an unequivocal incitement to Vernichtung, or genocide.