Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
lands, in line with the avowed Nazi policy of ‘freeing’ all of Europe from Jewish
influence.”
In the next paragraph Grayzel contradicts this statement by saying that the
Germans were doing what the Allied propaganda said they were doing: exterminations,
gas chambers, etc. Grayzel makes no attempt to resolve the contradiction.
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It may be wondered why the authors of the hoax have presented us with
documents which describe, in very general terms, what the German policy was.
The hoaxers were confronted with (a) the fact that Europeans were told by the
Germans, at the time of the deportations, that the Jews were to be resettled and (b)
the fact that the resettlement program had been reported in the Allied press and (c)
the fact that, in regard to the documents, it was necessary to make a choice among
three possibilities: presenting no high level documents dealing with the Jewish
policy, presenting forged high level documents dealing with the policy, and presenting
selected high level documents dealing with the policy. Under the circumstances,
the third of the three possibilities was obviously to be preferred. It was
clearly better to present a genuine document, signed by Göring and speaking of
the “final solution” of the Jewish question, than to present a forged document or
no document. Although the final solution is specified as “emigration and evacuation,”
it was considered not possible to avoid the fact that the Nazis described
their program in such terms. Thus, today the bearers of the extermination legend
merely claim that all of this was code terminology.
One must not pass over the important work of R. L. Koehl, who is that strange
bird, a professional academic historian writing in or near a field completely dominated
by non-historians. The main value of Koehl’s work is in putting Poland into
proper focus and perspective.
During the war years, Germany undertook to change the composition of the
populations near its eastern borders. The main instrument of this program was the
RuSHA (Rasse- und Siedungshauptamt, Race and Settlement Main Office) of the
SS. The basic policy was to move selected Reich Germans and ethnic German
communities of Eastern Europe (Volksdeutsche) into the conquered territories
contiguous to Germany. Jews and Poles were expelled from these areas and sent
to various places, in some cases to the farms the ethnic Germans had vacated, to
special Eastern ghettos, and also to certain special “Z villages” in Poland.
Koehl explicitly endorses the reality of the extermination program, but his account
of it is most peculiar: 378
“The official version insisted that the Jews were going to be moved further
east into conquered Soviet territory to remove them more effectively from the
German sphere of life. Like many other German pronouncements, this one
contained several grains of truth: (1) train-loads of Jews from the Reich were
sent as far east as possible for liquidation, often at the hands of non-Germans
such as the Ukrainians or the Baltic peoples. (2) The Poles were, in
Rosenberg’s early plans as Minister for the East, to be considered for reset-
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Grayzel, 785-786.
Koehl, 131-132.
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