Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 6: Et Cetera
So far, I have not been able to find such a directive either in the regulations
regarding the Jewish question in the ‘Brown Portfolio’ or in other decrees.”
Obviously, Lohse could not have any conceivable reason to contest the authenticity
of these documents because, though they suggest exterminations, they emphatically
excuse him.
Another document from the Yivo is 3428-PS, supposedly a letter from Kube to
Lohse, reporting shipments of German, Polish, and other Jews to the Minsk area
and the liquidation of some of them. From the mimeographed summary examined,
it is not clear whether or not the document is supposed to have a handwritten signature.
Wilhelm Kube was assassinated in September 1943. 357
Other documents that are relevant are numbered 3660-PS through 3669-PS
(excepting 3663-PS). The documents are attributed to various people, e.g. Kube
and Gewecke, and in every case the descriptive material accompanying the document
specifies that the location of the original is unknown and that only a photostat
is available. With only a couple of exceptions, there are no handwritten signatures.
Even Reitlinger seems puzzled by the existence of these reports and other
documents, because he remarks: 358
“It is not easy to see why the murderers left such an abundant testimony
behind them, for in spite of their wide circulation list, Knobloch’s [the Gestapo
official who edited the reports] reports seem to have been designed primarily
to appeal to Himmler and Heydrich. Thus, in addition to much juggling with
the daily death bills in order to produce an impressive total, there are some
rather amateur essays in political intelligence work.”
It is the “amateur essays” that convince one of forgery here; the contents of
these reports are ridiculous in the selection of things reported. To give a few examples
from excerpts reproduced in NMT volume 4: 359
“The tactics, to put terror against terror, succeeded marvelously. From
fear of reprisals, the peasants came a distance of 20 kilometers and more to
the headquarters of the Teilkommando of Einsatzgruppe A on foot or on
horseback in order to bring news about partisans, news which was accurate in
most of the cases. […]
In this connection, a single case may be mentioned, which proves the correctness
of the principle ‘terror against terror.’ In the village of Yachnova it
was ascertained on the basis of a report made by the peasant Yemelyanov and
after further interrogations and other searches that partisans had been fed in
the house of Anna Prokovieva. The house was burned down on 8 August 1941
at about 21 hours and its inhabitants arrested. Shortly after midnight partisans
set light to the house of the informer Yemelyanov. A detachment sent to Jachnowa
on the following day ascertained that the peasant woman Ossipova had
told the partisans that Yemelyanov had made the report, which had caused our
action.
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Hilberg, 709; Reitlinger, 560; 3428-PS in NMT, vol. 4, 191-193.
Reitlinger, 213-214.
NMT, vol. 4, 168-169, 187, 190.
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