Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
been procured from military intelligence, official Washington eventually cooperated
with the extermination propaganda to the extent of having high officials
make vague public declarations in support of it, and of having propaganda agencies
make more specific declarations of an obscure nature. The early propaganda
had features which are retained in the legend to this day, such as the six million
figure, and also features which were quickly forgotten, such as the soap factories,
although both features were authored by the same Zionist circles.
In regard to our terminology, it should be remarked that the word “Zionist”
is not being employed here as a code word for “Jewish;” the evidence shows
that, while the hoax is certainly a Jewish hoax, in the sense of having been invented
by Jews, it is also a Zionist hoax, in the sense of having been invented by
Jews who were Zionists, on behalf of Zionist ends. The Zionist character of the
propaganda is quite clear; note that, as a rule, the persons who were pressing for
measures to remove Jews from Europe (under the circumstances a routine and
understandable proposal) coupled such proposals with demands that such Jews
be resettled in Palestine, which shows that there was much more in the minds of
the Zionist propagandists than mere assistance to refugees and victims of persecution.
We have also noted that Auschwitz was absent from the extermination propaganda
in 1942 and 1943 although, if there had been exterminations at such a
prominent site, military intelligence and others would certainly have learned of it.
To be sure, Auschwitz appeared in the propaganda, but the specific claims, bearing
on a high death rate due to more or less normal causes, were in their essentials
true, however amplified their content. There were no claims of gas chambers or
exterminations. Naturally, I make the reservation that this statement is based on
the fact that, after a reasonably thorough study, I have not noted Auschwitz in the
1942-1943 extermination propaganda; Treblinka, Belzec, and Chelmno appeared
in the newspaper extermination stories, but not Auschwitz.
This view is confirmed by the periodicals and books of the period that I have
examined. Three periodical publications are of particular interest. The issue of
Commonweal for June 4, 1943, carried an article by Jacques Maritain, which
summarized what he, evidently after some investigation, believed to be the chief
features of the extermination program. Auschwitz is not mentioned, although exterminations
via “poison gases, electrocution, mass piling into enclosed spaces
where asphyxia takes place by degrees, suffocation […] in sealed freight cars” are
mentioned, and particular reference is made to Chelmno.
The New Republic for August 30, 1943, was a special issue devoted to the
plight of the Jews in Europe and made no reference to Auschwitz. A two page advertisement,
placed by the Jewish Labor Committee (New York), mentions only
Treblinka, Belzec, and “hermetically sealed cars where Jews are being poisoned.”
Survey Graphic for April 1943 carries a two page article by William L. Shirer.
The subject is the whole range of alleged German atrocities and thus Auschwitz
(Owicim) is mentioned, but only in connection with an alleged high death rate
of 250 Poles per day, due to “executions, inhuman treatment, hunger, and epidemics.”
Shirer claims exterminations of Jews at Belzec.
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