Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
(the two Jews on April 7).
There is an additional short supplement said to be written by two other young
Jews who escaped on May 27, 1944, and made their way to Slovakia (under German
domination until 1945) to make their report, which is said to have been received
in Switzerland on August 6, 1944. The authors are completely anonymous,
and this anonymity is duly apologized for “whose names will not be disclosed for
the time being in the interest of their own safety.”
Sections 1, 2, and 3 constitute the first part of the report and section 4 the second
part. The first section is the major part of the report. It is said to have been
written by a Slovakian Jew who arrived at Auschwitz on April 13, 1942, and was
given a registration number (tattooed onto his left breast) in the neighborhood of
29,000. He eventually became registrar in the Birkenau infirmary. The feature of
this first section is a detailed record, for the period April 1942 to April 1944, of
the transports which arrived at Auschwitz, together with the registration numbers
assigned. About 55 groups of transports (sometimes more than one transport are
in a group) are reported, and the (admittedly approximate) registration numbers
assigned to the people in each group are given. The numbers start at 27,400 and
run to 189,000 in the consecutive numbering system in which a number was not
used twice. For each group the nationalities represented as well as other information
is given (Jewish or Aryan, political prisoners or other, occasional names of
individuals, numbers “gassed” instead of registered, etc.). The WRB report, if it is
approximately correct in these matters (interpreting the people “gassed” as either
never having existed or having been sent on to another destination), is one of the
few known sources of significant amounts of such information (another is the referenced
set of Netherlands Red Cross reports, which is the subject of Appendix
C).
Almost all of this information is given by the author of the first section of the
WRB report, but after he escaped, the authors of the third, supplemental section of
the report kept an account of this information for the period April 7 – May 27 and
have contributed it to the report.
The second section of the report is said to be written by a Slovakian Jew who
arrived at the Lublin camp around June 4, 1942, but was sent to Auschwitz around
June 30, 1942. According to the first section of the report, he then would have received
a registration number around 44,000, which was tattooed onto his left forearm
(the tattooing system had changed). The two authors of the first two sections
of the report are the two young Slovakian Jews who escaped together on April 7,
1944. The third section of the report is the short supplement and the fourth section
is the contribution of the “Polish major.”
The anonymity of the authors of the report is certainly a vulnerable feature, but
the major implausibility is simply the contents of the WRB report. Examination
shows that the information given in the report, which is most likely true to semitrue,
is the sort of thing that could have been built up from intelligence data, not
from reports of “two young Slovakian Jews and a Polish major” who “escaped.”
This is exactly as one should expect; Germany’s enemies had certain means of
gathering information about German camps and about events in Europe and sim-
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