Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
whatever, and the situation was such that the ubiquitous Zionist International was
in a position to manufacture and transmit whatever items seemed appropriate for
the occasion. Even if the contents of the WRB report were entirely true, an escape
by inmates would not have been at all necessary to get the “facts” into the hands
of the Allies. Note that we are told that the entire contents of the WRB report are
due to three independent escapes by remarkably informed inmates. In view of
what we know about the channels of communication that existed, this is silly in
the extreme.
The authors of the WRB report remained anonymous for quite a bit more than
“the time being.” The report became a prosecution document at Nuremberg under
the number 022-L. The descriptive material accompanying the document, dated
August 7, 1945 (the “staff evidence analysis”), seems distressed at the anonymity
of the authors. It tells of a certain Dr. Joseph Elias, “Protestant Pastor of Jewish
ancestry, organizer of Jewish resistance in Hungary, head of Jo’Pasztor Bizottsag,
who interrogated the first two Slovak Jews after their escape.” Then it tells of “Dr.
G. Soos – Secretary of Hungarian underground movement MFM, who brought the
first report (of the first two Slovak Jews) to Italy.” The organization “Jo’Pasztor”
was real, but of the activities of Elias or Soos in connection with these matters
nothing, it seems, is known. Of the origins of the parts of the report attributed to
the other three people we are told nothing. It is said that R. D. McClelland, Bern
representative of the WRB, forwarded the report to Washington in early July 1944
(the supplemental part was presumably not included).
The WRB report was put into evidence at the IMT as document 022-L by Major
Walsh on December 14, 1945. 158 There was no defense objection, at the IMT,
to the acceptance of the report into evidence. At the Farben trial, the prosecution
submitted the report (Document Book 89) as evidence, but the defense objected,
and this objection “as to the competence and materiality of each and every document
in the book” was sustained by that court. The result of the ensuing legal argument
was that the court agreed to taking a certain very ambiguous “judicial notice”
of the documents. 159
Anonymity was maintained for several more years, because the first edition
(1953) of Reitlinger’s The Final Solution considers the authors anonymous. In
considering the beginnings of the gassings, reference is made to “the very reliable
report of the Birkenau infirmary registrar or Blockschreiber, who escaped to Hungary
in April 1944” (page 110). In connection with information about Theresienstadt
Jews transported to Auschwitz, “we are indebted to a Slovak Jewish doctor,
who escaped to Hungary in April 1944. This man, who was in charge of the Birkenau
infirmary records […] ” (pages 169-170). In discussing the WRB report,
Reitlinger told us that “the most important document is that of the anonymous
Slovak Jewish doctor who escaped to Hungary in April 1944” (page 540). In all
three cases Reitlinger was referring to the author of the first section of the WRB
report, who, the report says, was the Slovakian Jew who arrived on April 13,
1942, and was given a registration number around 29,000. Reitlinger refers to him
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IMT, vol. 3, 568.
DuBois, 173-175.
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