Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
expectancy of only nine months from the time an individual is thrown into a
concentration camp. Conditions are particularly severe at the Oswiecim camp,
where 58,000 persons are believed to have perished.
At least 1,000,000 Jews have been slaughtered, starved or beaten to death
in Poland during the past three years. In Warsaw food rations permit only
23.4 per cent of the calories necessary to keep a human being alive.”
This was one of the very few pre-1944 specific references to the Auschwitz
concentration camp (although the stories of March 7 and April 27 were oblique
references). The interesting thing about this reference to Auschwitz is that it is essentially
correct, as shall be confirmed in the next chapter, although one cannot be
confident of the accuracy of the 58,000 figure and “torture” and “executions”
should not be included as causes of the high death rate. The important point is that
this story implicitly rejects the post-war extermination claims which assert that
thousands were killed at Auschwitz almost every day, starting at the latest in the
summer of 1942 and continuing to the autumn of 1944.
October 8, 1943, p. 5: “ALL-EUROPE PURGE OF JEWS REPORTED
Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 7 – Well-informed circles here said today that a
decree had been issued in Berlin ordering the removal of all Jews from Europe
before the end of the war. The source said that the order was issued by Adolf
Hitler himself.
[…] The power behind the Nazi persecution of Danish Jews is the so-called
‘Jew Dictator,’ Storm Trooper Eighman [sic…] who was born in Palestine of
German emigrants and brought up there [and] is known for his sadistic hatred
of Jews. He engineered all the extermination action against Jews in Germany
and the occupied territories. […]”
This seems to be Eichmann’s debut in the propaganda and, probably, the
source of the myth that he was raised in Palestine (he was born in Solingen, Germany,
and raised in Linz, Austria).
November 23, 1943, p. 4: “WIFE OF MIKOLAJCZYK HOSTAGE OF GERMANS
The 43-year-old wife of Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of Poland is being
held by the Germans as a hostage in the Oswiecim concentration camp and
may be facing imminent execution, the Polish Telegraph Agency reported from
London yesterday.
[…] Oswiecim is the most notorious German prison in Poland, where thousands
of helpless victims have been tortured to death. […]
The names of the Germans chiefly responsible for the massacre of Polish
Jews were given in a Polish statement in London. […]
‘There are ten of them, headed by Ludwig Fischer, the Nazi Governor of
the Warsaw area. […] A member of the Polish National Council said that most
of the Jews in Poland had already been wiped out.’”
November 29, 1943, p. 3: “50,000 KIEV JEWS REPORTED KILLED
By W. H. Lawrence.
Kiev, Russia, Oct. 22 (Delayed) – Kiev authorities asserted today that the
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