Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 4: Auschwitz
was head of the political department at Auschwitz which conducted third degree
methods of interrogation from approximately March 1941 until September
1943. As such, he frequently sent prisoners to Auschwitz for incarceration
or execution. He visited persons accused of various crimes, such as escaping
Prisoners of War, etc., frequently met within Auschwitz, and Mildner often attended
the trial of such persons, who usually were executed in Auschwitz following
their sentence. I showed Mildner throughout the extermination plant at
Auschwitz and he was directly interested in it since he had to send the Jews
from his territory for execution at Auschwitz.
I understand English as it is written above. The above statements are true;
this declaration is made by me voluntarily and without compulsion; after reading
over this statement, I have signed and executed the same at Nürnberg,
Germany on the fifth day of April 1946.
Rudolf Höss”
By “NSDAP” is meant the Nazi Party, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
(National Socialist German Worker’s Party).
Some points of information, which have not been included in the affidavit, although
some might consider them relevant, are that Höss, as a nationalist brawler
in the twenties, had committed a political killing, for which he served five years in
prison, 168 and that he started in the concentration camps at Dachau as a corporal in
1934. He may seem to have risen unusually quickly because in 1945, during the
final weeks of the war, he was a colonel and was negotiating concentration camp
matters with the Red Cross and representatives of neutral countries. 169 Most
probably, his low rank in 1934 was due to artificial limitations on the size of the
SS, imposed for political reasons. His rapid advance was probably the result of the
expansion of the SS after the SA-Röhm purge of June 1934 and the greater expansion,
which took place after the war began.
We now analyze the significant points of the affidavit. The plan of Birkenau is
shown in Fig. 29; it is based on information gathered at the “Auschwitz trial” of
1963-1965, but the WRB report presents a similar plan. 170
Contradictions at the Outset
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It would have been helpful in putting things into slightly better focus and perspective
if Höss had briefly indicated what the nature of the “concentration camp
industries” at Auschwitz was and the enormous importance this industry had for
the Germans. In the entire transcript of IMT testimony there appears to be only
one specific reference to the nature of the industry at Auschwitz. It is in the testimony
of political prisoner Marie Claude Vaillant-Couturier where she makes
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Hilberg, 575; Reitlinger, 113.
Reitlinger, 113, 502, 516-517; Red Cross (1947), 95, 98, 103-104.
Langbein, vol. 2, 930-931; Naumann, 19 opp; US-WRB (1944), pt. 1, 22.
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