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.[18] 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".[2] Ihrig argues elsewhere that the Armenian genocide partially inspired the Holocaust but that there is "no smoking gun".[8]