 Carrier maintains that much of Trevor-Roper's English edition is actually a verbatim translation of Genoud's French and not the original German.Carrier's thesis is that an analysis between Picker's original German text and Genoud's French translation reveals that Genoud's version is at best a poor translation, and in certain places contains "blatant distortions".Many of the quotations used to support arguments in favor of Hitler's anti-Christianity are derived from the Genoud–Trevor-Roper translation.