Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
those who still believe the claims these facts are “mysteries.” The inconsistencies
and implausibilities and obvious lies will appear and finally the crushing blow, a
fact contradicting the claims, so huge in significance that there can be no mumbling
about “mysteries.”
The Höss ‘Confession’
The commandant of Auschwitz from May 1940 to late 1943 was SS Colonel
Rudolf Höss. During the IMT trial he had signed some affidavits for the prosecution,
the most noted being signed on April 5, 1946. 166 In accord with a common
IMT and NMT practice, he was then called by the Kaltenbrunner defense on April
15, 1946. 167 The major content of his testimony was in his assenting, during crossexamination,
to his affidavit of April 5, and also in certain points of supporting
testimony.
Höss is universally considered the star prosecution witness and, despite the
origins of the Auschwitz hoax in the WRB report, the extermination mythologists
essentially treat the Höss affidavit as the Auschwitz extermination story or, more
precisely, the framework for the story. All pleaders of the Auschwitz extermination
legend present a story that is the Höss affidavit, with only numerical variations,
as supplemented by the IMT, NMT, and similar evidence. None of the principal
extermination mythologists gives prominence to the WRB report, and only
Reitlinger seems to perceive a problem of some sort of importance in connection
with it.
Thus, it is convenient to allow the Höss affidavit to act as framework for our
analysis also. It is presented in full here, and then the individual points are reviewed
with due regard for the supplemental and additional evidence. The fateful
duality will emerge as an undeniable feature. The contradictions, inconsistencies,
wild implausibilities, and lies will appear. The analysis will reveal something of
the psychological context of the trials.
Due regard is also given to verifiable interpretation of sources, including instances
where it is deemed better to reference Hilberg or Reitlinger rather than an
original document, to which the reader is not likely to have convenient access.
“I, RUDOLF FRANZ FERDINAND HSS, being first duly sworn, depose
and say as follows:
1. I am forty-six-years-old, and have been a member of the NSDAP since
1922; a member of the SS since 1934; a member of the Waffen-SS since 1939.
I was a member from 1 December 1934 of the SS Guard Unit, the so-called
Deathshead Formation (Totenkopf Verband).
2. I have been constantly associated with the administration of concentration
camps since 1934, serving at Dachau until 1938; then as adjutant in
Sachsenhausen from 1938 to May 1, 1940, when I was appointed commandant
166
167
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IMT, vol. 11, 396-422.