Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Before leaving Cohen, we should note that there were sick emaciated Jews, as
well as others, in the Auschwitz I hospital. He further informs us: 211
“[…] The HKB was housed in five good stone-built blocks. There was one
block for surgery, one for infectious diseases, one for internal diseases, one
for ‘Schonung’ (less serious cases) and Block 28 (X-ray, specialists’ rooms,
medical experiments, admissions). The sick lay in three bunks, one above another,
on straw mattresses, and were dressed in a shirt (with, later, a pair of
drawers added), under two cotton blankets and a sheet. Every week the patients
were bathed, and every two weeks they were given ‘clean’ underwear
and a ‘clean’ sheet; there were few fleas and no lice. Each berth was seldom
occupied by more than two persons. But […] even patients in a state of high
fever had to leave their beds to go to the toilet or to wash in the cold lavatory
in the mornings. Because of ‘organizations’ from the SS, there were always
medicines, though not in sufficient quantities, including even sulfa drugs; these
had been brought in by large transports of Jews from every European country.”
He adds that hospital conditions were much worse in other camps (about
which he has only read).
The Auschwitz I hospital was obviously no luxury establishment but nevertheless
it showed a serious concern, on the part of the Germans, for the recovery
of inmates, including Jews, who had fallen ill. This observation also opposes the
claim that those not fit for work were killed. Cohen reports certain selections of an
incompletely known character, in connection with unknown destinations. It may
be that those considered of no further use as labor were sent to Birkenau; this
would be very reasonable because it has been shown that the unemployables from
the Monowitz hospital were sent to Birkenau.
“Special Treatment”
The term “special treatment,” Sonderbehandlung, is supposed to have been
one of the code words for gassing. When it is said that N Jews in a transport to
Auschwitz were gassed, and that this is according to some German record or
document, it is the case that the word “Sonderbehandlung” is being interpreted as
meaning gassing. The documents in question are two in number, and are printed
(not reproduced from originals) in a 1946 publication of the Polish government.
Both documents are said to be signed by an SS Lieutenant Schwarz. They state
that from several Jewish transports from Breslau and Berlin to Auschwitz in
March 1943, a certain fraction of Jews were selected for labor, and that the remainder
were sonderbehandelt. As far as I know, these documents are not Nuremberg
documents; the originals, if they exist (which I am not denying), are in
Polish archives. 212
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Cohen, 60.
Friedman, 14-15; Reitlinger, 172; Hilberg, 587; Blumental, 109-110. One of the documents are