Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
a very open U.S. immigration policy.
Eastern Europe, however, presents the core of the demographic problem. In
order to avoid very serious confusion, one must first recognize that there have
been extensive border changes in Eastern Europe in the course of the twentieth
century. A map of Europe on the eve of World War I (1914) is given as Fig. 1. A
map for January 1938 showing, essentially, Europe organized according to the
Treaty of Versailles, before Hitler began territorial acquisitions, is given in Fig. 2,
and Fig. 4 shows the post-war map of Europe. The principal border change at the
end of World War II was the moving westward of the Soviet border, annexing the
three Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and parts of Romania,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Prussia. Poland was compensated with the remainder
of East Prussia and what used to be considered eastern Germany; the effect
was to move Poland bodily westward.
Pre-war (1938) Jewish population estimates for Eastern Europe were offered
by H. S. Linfield and the American Jewish Committee in the 1948 (sic) World
Almanac (page 249). Post-war (1948) figures are published in the 1949 World
Almanac (page 204).
Table 3: Eastern European Jewish population (est.)
COUNTRY 1938 1948
Bulgaria 48,398 46,500
Hungary 444,567 180,000
Poland 3,113,900 105,000
Romania 900,000 430,000
USSR 3,273,047 2,032,500
TOTALS 7,779,912 2,794,000
The claimed Jewish loss for Eastern Europe is thus 4,985,912. The figure for
the USSR includes, in both cases, the three Baltic countries and the Jews of Soviet
Asia. The pre-war figures are in all cases in close agreement with the figures that
Ruppin published shortly before the war. To the extent that the extermination legend
is based on population statistics, it is based precisely on these statistics or
their equivalents.
The trouble is that such figures are absolutely meaningless. There is no way a
Western observer can check the plausibility, let alone the accuracy, of such figures.
He must either be willing to accept Jewish or Communist (mainly the latter)
claims on Jewish population for Eastern Europe, or he must reject any number offered
as lacking satisfactory authority.
It is possible to reinforce our objection on this all important point and simultaneously
deal with a reservation that the reader may have; it would appear excessively
brazen to claim the virtual disappearance of Polish Jewry, if such had not
been essentially or approximately the case or if something like that had not happened.
This seems a valid reservation, but one must recall that much of the territory
that was considered Polish in 1939 was Soviet by 1945. It was possible for
Polish Jewry to virtually disappear, if, during the 1939-1941 Russian occupation
of Eastern Poland, the Soviets had dispersed large numbers of Polish Jews into the
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