Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
ply used information gathered by such conventional methods, plus a considerable
amount of invention, to compose the WRB report. It is just not believable that intelligence
agencies were in such a primitive position with respect to, of all things,
the industrial center Auschwitz that they were obliged to depend for information
on miraculous escapes by unusually well informed prisoners. This point will be
amplified below. Of course, such an observation does not rule out the possible use
of reports of former employees or inmates, escaped or otherwise, as part of the
data.
The report presents the following information (or estimates, or guesses, or
claims, or inventions):
1. The number of prisoners at Auschwitz I in the month of April 1942, the
predominant nationalities present, and the main causes of internment. Description
of the inmate registration number system and the “star system”
of inmate insignia. A list of various factories in the area (pt. I, 1-2).
2. An accurate map of the area, comparable to our Fig. 5 (pt. I, 4).
3. Dimensions related to the Auschwitz I camp size, its fences and its guard
towers. Ditto for Birkenau. Description of barracks (pt. I, 5-7).
4. In the case of a natural death of a prisoner, a death certificate was made
out and sent to Oranienburg central camp administration. If the inmate
was gassed, his name was entered in a special register and marked “S.B.”
(Sonderbehandlung, special treatment) (pt. I, 9).
5. Four buildings, referred to as Crematories I, II, III, and IV, were in use in
spring 1944 at Birkenau; use of at least one of them had started in February
1943. Each building contained: (A) a furnace room of ovens; (B) a
large hall; (C) a gas chamber. The first two buildings each contained 36
muffles and the other two 18 each. Three bodies are put in one muffle at a
time and the burning took an hour and a half. Thus, one could dispose of
6,000 bodies per day. This was considered, at the time, an improvement
over burning in trenches (the method previously employed) (pt. I, 14-15).
6. The specific product used for generating the gas for the gas chamber was
a powder called “Cyklon,” manufactured by a Hamburg concern. When
exposed, it released cyanide gas, and about three minutes were required to
kill everybody in the gas chamber. The containers for the Cyklon were
marked “for use against vermin” (pt. I, 16).
7. Prominent people from Berlin attended the inauguration of the first crematory
in March 1943. The “program” consisted in the gassing and burning
of 8,000 Cracow Jews. The guests (no names given) were extremely
satisfied with the results (pt. I, 16).
8. A detailed breakdown of the numbers and classifications of the inmates at
Birkenau in April 1944 (pt. I, 23-24).
9. In the camp, each block has a “block eldest” who “has power of life and
death.” Until February 1944, nearly 50 per cent of the block eldests were
Jews, but this was stopped by order of Berlin. Under the block eldest is
the block recorder, who does all the clerical work. If the recorder has
noted down a death by mistake, as often occurs, the discrepancy is cor-
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