Actually, SnakeTongue, I have a couple of questions about your "analysis" (or should that be "your" analysis?).
For instance, why is the "incomplete" date an indication of forgery to you? If the forgers were creating the document from whole cloth, why do you think they able to type out "26. März", the whole month and day, but only the last part of the year? Was their typewriter broken and missing the "1", "9", and "4" keys (which actually can't be the case, since the number "14" appears elsewhere in the document)?
If the forgers weren't creating a document from scratch (which you imply, but more on that in a bit), why would they be able to keep the year, but need to alter (or conceal) the decade? There's literally no other year ending in the number 2 besides "1942" that an altered original could have on it. 1932 was before Hitler even took power, and 1952 was long after the war ended.
Second, you say "Sending office code in the top right corner is not complete", because it's only "II D", and not "II D 3" (presumably, since you only have one question mark to represent the character you believe is missing, and that's what Alvarez thinks it's supposed to be). However, at the Czech site you cite as authoritative when it comes to Pradel's correct rank, it lists "II D 3" as Pradel's office (specifically, "II D 3 a" - "II D 3 b" was the Kraftfahrwesen des Sicherheitsdienst, headed by SS-Hauptsturmführer Gast and SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich), while Rauff's own office, being the overall commanding unit, is just "II D". Since the document is being sent by Rauff, not Pradel (it just mentions Pradel), why is it surprising to you that Rauff's office of "II D" is listed as the sending office instead of Pradel's office of "II D 3" (or "II D 3 a")? Especially when the document gets Pradel's own office of "II D 3 a" correct in the paragraph where it mentions his name?
As for the implications of an altered original, you say:
Why would the forgers need to alter an existing document to link Pradel with Rauff? It was well known and well documented (even at that Czech website you cited) that Pradel was Rauff's subordinate in the RSHA. Of all the things a potential forger would need to manufacture, a link between those two men was not one of them!
But if Paragraph 2 was a forged addition, and it wasn't needed to show that Pradel and Rauff were connected, why was it added to the "altered" original? It contains literally nothing incriminating...all the really incriminating stuff (the first mention of "Sonderwagen", the mention of the Mauthausen concentration camp that the "Sonderwagen" is for, the bottles of carbon monoxide) are in the non-"crooked" paragraphs.
If only the "crooked" paragraph was added by the forgers, why did they bother? If all the paragraphs are forgeries, then why is one crooked in the first place?
And how could the forgers be simultaneously so sloppy as to forget to type "194" before "2" in their document and get Pradel's rank wrong...and also so insidious and influential as to get Dr. August Becker himself to give a statement saying that Pradel's rank matched the erroneous rank on the forged document?
