Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
not ‘isolated in one country but is continent-wide. Early in December 1942 the
State Department in Washington gave some figures showing that the number
of Jewish victims deported and perished since 1939 in Axis-controlled Europe
now reached the appalling figure of 2,000,000 and that 5,000,000 were in
danger of extermination. […]
The document concludes:
‘The means employed in deporting from the ghetto all those who survive
murders and shooting in the street exceeds all imagination. In particular, children,
old people and those too weak for work are murdered. Actual data concerning
the fate of the deportees is not at hand, but the news is available – irrefutable
news – that places of execution have been organized at Chelmno and
Belzec, where those who survive shootings are murdered en masse by means of
electrocution and lethal gas.’”
The alleged electrocutions at Belzec appeared a few times in the propaganda
and will be discussed again on p. 183. They are one of the versions of exterminations
that were quickly forgotten about after the end of the war. Nevertheless, we
can see, at this point, a clear tendency of the propaganda to resemble the claims
which have become the fixed features of the legend, the gas chambers and the approximate
6,000,000 killed during the course of the war. We will have more to
say a bit later on the origin of the six million figure.
December 28, 1942, p. 21: “DEMAND JEWS BE SAVED
Albany, Dec 27 (AP) – Dr. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress
and the World Jewish Congress [… urged] formulation of an Allied program
to halt the Nazi slaughter of civilians.”
Jan. 8, 1943, p. 8: “93 CHOOSE SUICIDE BEFORE NAZI SHAME
Ninety-three Jewish girls and young Jewish women, the pupils and the
teacher of a Beth Jacob School of Warsaw, Poland, chose mass suicide to escape
being forced into prostitution by German soldiers, according to a letter
from the teacher, made public yesterday by Rabbi Seth Jung of the Jewish
Center of New York City.”
February 7, 1943, VI, p. 16: “IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH
[magazine article by Sholem Asch…] gas chambers and blood poisoning
stations which are established in the outlying countryside, where steam shovels
prepare community graves for the victims.”
February 14, 1943, p. 37: “TYRANNY OF NAZIS SHOWN
Warsaw is being subjected to a deliberate Nazi pattern of death, disease,
starvation, economic slavery and wholesale elimination of population, the Office
of War Information states in a twenty-four page pamphlet, ‘Tale of a
City,’ published today.
Declaring that Warsaw has been the testing ground for Nazi plans of world
conquest […]
‘[…] there is no way of telling at this time exactly how many Poles have
been murdered by the Nazis in Warsaw.’ The execution spot is now Palmiry,
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