4. "Zimmermann complains that the facts presented by Mr Pinto-Duschinsky actually ‘rested in the majority on my own researches...only a small part was added to by himself'." The footnoted German-language version of my original Standpoint piece, which appeared in a book edited by Michael Fahlbusch and Ingo Haar, showed that Zimmermann was incorrect.

5. According to Evans, "Toepfer's postwar association with ex-Nazis and anti-Semites...was absolutely par for the course with the men who built Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Germany." The extent of Toepfer's patronage of Nazi war criminals, Holocaust perpetrators and high-ranking SS officers makes this open to dispute. 

6. Evans states: "The Toepfer archive was not ‘weeded' to remove incriminating material." The official history of 2000 cites Alfred Toepfer's son Heinrich on page 43 and page 71 footnote 111 as reporting that the greater part of Alfred Toepfer's papers was destroyed at the end of the Second World War.

7. Evans acknowledges that Toepfer clearly profited from the war. However, he fails to address the implications of this. His conclusion contradicts the Toepfer Foundation's opposite claim written in January 2010 to Oxford. Moreover, admitting that Toepfer's postwar fortune derived partly from  activities in German-occupied Poland contradicts the core theme of Evans's piece in THE that the Foundation's money is taint-free.

8. Evans insists that the slaked lime supplied to the SS administration of the Lodz ghetto was a building material. As Gerlach writes in the official history, the material was used also to cover cadavers (Alfred Toepfer: Stifter und Kaufmann, page 373).

9. Evans accounts in his response for the euphemistic way in which he described Toepfer's employee Edmund Veesenmayer in THE, but writes that he did manage to note  that Veesenmayer was a war criminal. That statement does not appear.

10. According to Evans, I wrongly identified Veesenmayer in Standpoint (April 2010) as a "close associate" of Toepfer. The "close associates" I listed were Riecke, Haller and Hacke, not Veesenmayer. (Evans's accusation mirrors that of the Toepfer Foundation in its submission to Oxford in June 2010.) Evans ignores the fact that neither the official Toepfer history of 2000 nor Zimmermann's 2008 biography mention the lethal role played in the Holocaust in Hungary by Haller, who until his death truly was a close Toepfer associate.

11. Evans explains that he did not inform the Oxford authorities of his graduate experiences  in Hamburg because he "was unable to find any information linking Toepfer or the Foundation to Nazism". Yet, he wrote in the THE article that war criminal Albert Speer had been a recent guest of the Foundation, that he saw Holocaust denial literature on its premises, that he met Toepfer employee Hans-Joachim Riecke, previously ranked an SS Major-General.