Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
mentioned, we can get a fairly good idea of where these settlements were located:
Riga – Minsk – Ukraine – Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) forms a connected
and plausible line on a map.
While we have a good idea of where these settlements were, we know little
else about them other than that they existed. As one should naturally expect, the
Allied occupation destroyed the relevant German records and documents, so that
only scraps survive that deal with the resettlement program in terms more specific
than, say, the Luther memorandum (NG-2586-J reproduced above). Indeed,
Steengracht’s defense made a serious effort to produce such documents at Nuremberg,
but the best it could do relative to the eastern camps was to submit two
documents into evidence. The first, Steengracht 64, 385 is a letter from Eichmann,
dated June 5, 1943, to the Foreign Office for the attention of Thadden. It concerns
the Jewish camps in the east and some articles that had appeared in various European
magazines concerning them. It appears that “fantastic rumors” in Slovakia
concerning these camps were being given credence by some people there, and in
addition to citing the magazine articles, Eichmann remarked:
“[…] to counteract the fantastic rumors circulating in Slovakia about the
fate of the evacuated Jews, attention should be drawn to the postal communications
of these Jews with Slovakia […], which for instance amounted to more
than 1,000 letters and postcards for February/March this year. Concerning
the information apparently desired by Prime Minister Dr. Tuka about the conditions
in Jewish camps, no objections would be raised by this office against
any possible scrutinizing of the correspondence before it is forwarded to the
addressees.”
The second Steengracht document, Steengracht 65 (also going under the number
NO-1624), is somewhat more effective in giving a picture of the situation of
the Jews in the occupied east. It is an order, dated August 20, 1943, by the chief of
the RuSHA (Race and Settlement Main Office), SS General Hildebrandt, relative
to associations between Germans and Jews in the occupied east and to the permissible
ways in which the latter could be employed. It reads:
“It has been pointed out to me by various sources that the behavior of
German offices in the occupied Eastern territories toward Jews had developed
in such a way in the past months as to give rise to misgivings. In particular,
Jews are being employed in jobs and services, which, in consideration of
maintaining secrecy, should only be assigned to absolutely reliable persons,
who should appear to be the confidential representatives of the German offices
in the eyes of the indigenous population. Unfortunately, in addition to this,
there is allegedly personal association of Reich Germans with Jewesses, which
exceeds the limits that must be strictly observed for ideological and racial reasons.
It is said to concern native Jews as well as Jews and Jewesses who have
been deported from the Old Reich to the occupied Eastern territories. This
state of affairs has already led to the fact that Jews are exploiting their apparently
confidential positions in exchange for the supply of preferential rations
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Steengracht 64 in NMT, vol. 13, 300; NO-1247 cited by Reitlinger, 308, and quoted by Hilberg,
254. Steengracht 65 (or NO-1624) does not appear to be reproduced anywhere.
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