Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
passing reference to an “ammunition factory” (no doubt the Krupp fuse plant) and
to a “large Buna factory, but as [she] did not work there [she did] not know what
was made there.” 171 There are other references, especially in the documents, but
they are buried quite deeply.
Not even Höss clung to the figure of 2,500,000 victims gassed; in private at
the time of his testimony and also at his own trial in 1947 in Poland (he was
hanged), he used a figure of 1,135,000. The lowest figure to be claimed by those
who claim that gassings took place is 750,000. 172 The Russians claimed
4,000,000, including some killed by “injections, ill treatment, etc.,” but the highest
figure claimed seems to be 7,000,000. 173
The remark about 400,000 Hungarian Jews was in accord with a strange emphasis
in the legend on the Hungarian Jews. This emphasis existed well before the
Höss affidavit, and it has persisted to this day. It was on May 5, 1944, that
Eichmann was supposed to have proposed, through the intermediary Joel Brand, a
“trucks for Hungarian Jews” swap with the Western allies. 174 The continued emphasis
on the Hungarian Jews seems to be a result of the focus, since 1960, on the
activities of Eichmann. For the initial emphasis, the only explanation I can offer is
that the problems of the Hungarian Jews started in March 1944 with the German
occupation of Hungary, which was simultaneous with the beginnings of the functioning
of the War Refugee Board, which had been established in January.
Much of the attention of the WRB was thus directed toward Hungary. 175 The
problem of the Hungarian Jews is given special attention in the next chapter.
Paragraph 4
Höss places the commencement of the gassings in the summer of 1941. He
gets promoted in December 1943 to the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps at
Oranienburg but knows “by reason of [his] continued duties” there that “these
mass executions continued.” To claim knowledge of significant events at Auschwitz,
while with the Inspectorate, seems very reasonable, but in his testimony he
said that in the summer of 1941 he, Höss, had been summoned to report directly
to Himmler and that during the interview the concentration camp commandant
had received directly from the Reichsführer-SS the order to begin exterminating
the Jews, with the stipulation that he should maintain the “strictest secrecy,” not
allowing even his immediate superior Glücks to find out what he was doing.
“Glücks was, so to speak, the inspector of concentration camps at that time and he
was immediately subordinate to the Reichsführer.” 176
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IMT, vol. 6, 211.
Reitlinger, 119.
008-USSR; Friedman, 14.
Reitlinger, 472-478; US-WRB (1945), 39-40.
US-WRB (1945), 49-50.
IMT, vol. 11, 398.