Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
‘bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination’ of Jews […]. The declaration
was issued simultaneously through the State Department here, and in London.
[…]
Text of Declaration
‘[…] From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions
of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which
has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by
the German invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few
highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away
are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor
camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately
massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties
is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women
and children.’”
This was the beginning of the State Department involvement in the extermination
legend, and that it came from such a seemingly official source was the basis
for special comment in the Times editorial of the same day:
December 18, 1942, p. 26: “HITLER’S TERROR
Despite all that has been written about Nazi persecution of the Jews, the
facts in the joint statement issued yesterday in Washington, London and Moscow
in the name of the United Nations will come as a shock to all civilized
people who have preserved a modicum of human decency. For this statement
is not an outcry of the victims themselves to which many thought it possible to
close their ears on the ground that it might be a special plea, subject to doubt.
It is the official statement of their own governments, based on officially established
facts. […]”
Clearly, it was believed that atrocity claims apparently coming from the State
Department were more credible than claims coming from such groups as the
World Jewish Congress, which is no doubt what is meant by the “victims themselves.”
However, we have seen that Wise was also behind the “joint declaration.”
The December 17 statement marked the start of U.S. and British government
complicity in the extermination legend. The German government did not see the
event as laden with import, and von Stumm of the Foreign Office’s press section
flippantly explained to the neutral press that the Allied declaration was for the
purpose of helping the Christmas sales of the Jewish department stores of New
York and London. 146
December 20, 1942, p. 23: “ALLIES DESCRIBE OUTRAGES ON JEWS
What is happening to the 5,000,000 Jews of German-held Europe, all of
whom face extermination, is described in a statement released yesterday by the
United Nations Information Office. […]
[…] Novel methods of mass execution by shooting and lethal gas are cited
in the main body of the report, which states that this destruction of the Jews is
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