Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
ing used to exterminate the Jews.”
April 20, 1943, p. 11: “RESCUE OF JEWS URGED
The Jewish Agency for Palestine, in a memorandum addressed to the Bermuda
Refugees Conference yesterday, urged that measures of rescue be
launched immediately on behalf of 4,000,000 Jews estimated to be still surviving
in Nazi occupied countries.
The Agency, headed by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, is recognized in the Mandate
for Palestine as a body to advise and cooperate with the Government of Palestine
on matters affecting the establishment of the Jewish National Home.
The memorandum declares that ‘should the announced policy of the enemy
continue unchecked, it is not impossible that by the time the war will have been
won, the largest part of the Jewish population of Europe will have been exterminated.’”
April 25, 1943, p. 19: “SCANT HOPE SEEN FOR AXIS VICTIMS
Special Cable to the New York Times Hamilton, Bermuda, April 24 – The
large scale movement of refugees is impossible under wartime conditions, and
neither the United States nor Great Britain, alone or jointly, can begin to solve
the refugee problem. These two concrete impressions have emerged after almost
a week’s discussion of the refugee problem by the American and British
delegations here.”
Because almost all Jews outside the Continent, particularly those in the U.S.,
believed the extermination claims, they brought political pressures which resulted
in the Bermuda Conference. It was believed, 147 correctly, that the Nazis wished
the emigration of the Jews from Europe (under appropriate conditions), and this
put the British and American governments, on account of the propaganda basis for
their war, into an awkward position, around which they were obliged to continually
double-talk. 148 We have described the conflict between State and Treasury in
this regard. The British had, at that point, no intention of opening Palestine, and
both the British and Americans had no intention of providing the resources, in the
middle of the war, for massive operations undertaken for reasons that were valid
only to the degree that their propaganda was taken seriously. No sane modern
statesmen believe their own propaganda. This is the dilemma, which J. Breckenridge
Long and other State Department officials felt themselves facing.
Another point that should be made here before proceeding with the survey of
the propaganda is that the six million figure had its origin apparently in the propaganda
of 1942-1943. An examination of the problem of the origin of the six million
figure could easily lead to the conclusion that it had its origin at the IMT,
where the indictment mentioned a figure (supplied by the World Jewish Congress)
of 5,721,800 “missing” Jews and Wilhelm Höttl of the SD signed an affidavit,
2738-PS, asserting that he had gotten a figure of six million from Eichmann. According
to Höttl, Eichmann had visited his Budapest office in a depressed mood because
he was convinced that the war was lost, thought that the Allies would punish
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DuBois, 197.
New York Times (Nov. 1, 1943), 5; (Dec. 11, 1943), 1; (Dec. 13, 1943), 11; (Jan. 3, 1944), 9.
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