Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
simple that they may surprise the reader even further. The simplest valid reason
for being skeptical about the extermination claim is also the simplest conceivable
reason: at the end of the war, they were still there.”
The dilemma I am delineating is that, by generating much verbiage on this
subject, I may give some the impression that it is a complex one. Therefore let me
state emphatically that the great verbiage is required not because the subject is
complicated but because public opinion has become distorted by the media’s generation
of many times that verbiage, generated over several decades, with the consequence
that unusual and elaborate therapy is required. However, it is very important
that this select group not lose sight of the fact that the subject is quite simple
and that only a cultural illness has made the great efforts of revisionists necessary.
The elements in an effective exposé of the hoax are not many. The principal
points are as follows:
1. The Jews were singled out for special persecution by Nazi Germany. Many
were deprived of their property, conscripted for labor, or deported east during
the war. The German documents do not speak of exterminations. The
term “Final Solution” (Endlösung) meant the expulsion of the Jews from
Europe, and the deportations to the east were a step toward that objective.
2. Documents published by the International Red Cross and the Vatican do
not harmonize with the extermination claims, and the very well informed
wartime Pope, Pius XII, is often castigated for not speaking up against exterminations
of Jews.
3. Partially on account of general wartime conditions and partially as a consequence
of the German measures against the Jews (e.g. crowding into ghettos),
a large number of Jews perished, but nothing near six million.
4. Published population statistics are quite meaningless, mainly because almost
all of the Jews involved in the problem were East European (e.g. two
or three million Polish Jews), but also because in the USA there has been
no reliable count – the census does not treat this and the concept “Jew” was
not admitted into the official records when a very large number entered the
U.S. after the war. To the extent that a significant number of Jews might
seem to be missing from some region they occupied before the war, they
can to the best of our knowledge be accounted for in terms of the massive
and well known postwar movements of Jews to the U.S., Palestine, and
other lands, and also in terms of their simply remaining in the Soviet Union
where the Germans had put them, according to the German documents.
5. The evidence for the extermination allegations depends crucially on trials,
such as the Nuremberg trials, held before courts that were for political reasons
constrained to accept the basic truth of such allegations. Thus, to
many relevant defendants it seemed that the only possible defense strategy
was to deny not the exterminations but only their personal responsibility
for them (e.g. Ernst Kaltenbrunner or Adolf Eichmann).
6. The horrible scenes found in the German camps in 1945 were the result of
the total collapse – in the context of the total collapse of German industry
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