Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
rected by killing the bearer of the corresponding number. Corrections are
not admitted (pt. I, 25).
10. A passage strikingly similar to the November 1942 “crumpled testament
of despair”:
“We worked in the huge buna plant to which we were herded every
morning about 3 AM. […] As our working place was situated outside
the large chain of sentry posts, it was divided into small sectors of 10 x
10 meters, each guarded by an SS man. Whoever stepped outside these
squares during working hours was immediately shot without warning
for having ‘attempted to escape.’ […] Very few could bear the strain
and although escape seemed hopeless, attempts were made every
day.” (pt. I, 30).
11. A “careful estimate of the numbers of Jews gassed in Birkenau between
April 1942 and April 1944,” summarized in a tabular form. The numbers
showed up in the published record of the IMT trial and are presented here
as Fig. 25 (pt. I, 33).
12. Great excitement prevailed as a consequence of the escape of the two
young Slovakian Jews (this is supposedly written by the authors of the
supplementary section 3), and the friends and superiors of the two escapees
were closely questioned. Because the two had held posts as “block recorders,”
all Jews exercising such functions were removed for punishment
and as a precautionary measure. This, of course, contradicts the implication
of the “Foreword” of the WRB report that the Germans did not know
the identity or even registration numbers of the two escapees, because it
withholds such information “in the interest of their own safety.” (pt. I,
34).
13. Starting May 15, 1944, Hungarian Jews started arriving at Birkenau at the
rate of about 15,000 per day. Ninety per cent were killed immediately
and, because this exceeded the capacity of the ovens, the method of burning
in trenches, which had existed earlier, was reverted to. The ten percent
who were not killed were also not registered at Birkenau but sent eventually
to camps in Germany: Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Gross-Rosen, Gusen,
Flossenbürg, Sachsenhausen, etc. (pt. I, 36-37).
14. A new inmate registration number system was also put into effect in the
middle of May 1944. At about the same time, a visit by Himmler to
nearby Cracow was reported in the Silesian newspapers. These newspaper
reports apparently omitted to mention, however, that on this trip Himmler
had also visited Birkenau, and that his party made a special visit to Crematory
I (pt. I, 37-38).
15. In the late summer of 1943, a commission of four distinguished Dutch
Jews had visited Auschwitz for the purpose of inspecting the condition of
the Dutch Jews (who were then specially prepared by the Germans with
new clothes, better food, etc.). The commission saw only a part of the
Dutch Jews sent to Auschwitz but were told that the others were in similar
camps. The commission was satisfied with this and signed a declaration
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