Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
contacted by Jewish propagandists and that he forwarded at least some of their
“information” to Rome. Examples that Burzio transmitted to the Vatican were
March 22 claims that the Germans were taking young Jewish women from their
families to make them prostitutes for German soldiers on the eastern front (a
complete fantasy) and an early 1943 letter from a Bratislava priest claiming that
both Jewish and responsible German sources had told him of soap factories supplied
with the bodies of gassed and machine-gunned Jews. Whether Burzio forwarded
such material purely as routine procedure or because he gave credence to
it is hardly relevant, although the later appears to be the case. The Vatican received
and filed many such reports during the war, but never gave any credence to
them. Its present position is that, during the war, neither it nor the “Jewish agencies
were aware that the deportations were part of a general mass annihilation operation”
(see also Appendix E). 165
In any case it is obvious that the WRB report is spurious. The data given in the
report is not the sort of information that escapees would carry out; the claim that
two more Jews escaped later on to supplement this data is more than doubly ridiculous.
Instead of coming forward immediately after the war with ostensible authors
of the report in order to lend more support to the lie, it appears that it was
assumed that the whole thing was irrelevant until, for some reason (probably
Reitlinger’s curiosity), an author was produced sixteen years after the event. That
person’s story is not credible.
Thus was born the Auschwitz legend.
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New York Times (Apr. 27, 1974), 7. Actes et documents, vol. 8, 476, 486-489; vol. 9, 40, 178n.