Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
countries that were heavily involved in Jewish affairs, and what we want to know
is what, insofar as the ICRC was able to observe, happened to these Jews. Our
emphasis, in fact, is on the Jews of Slovakia (Eastern Czechoslovakia), Croatia
(Northern Yugoslavia) and Hungary. In a way our interest is even more narrow;
we are interested in Hungary, but the other two lands are contiguous, and to the
extent that the Germans controlled things, there was no reason for major differences
in Jewish policy.
From a numerical point of view, it might seem that Poland should be selected
as the key country in the problem. However, the fact remains that Hungary is the
key because the creators of the legend chose to emphasize Hungary and not Poland
in offering evidence for their claims. They offer no evidence for exterminations
of Polish Jews, apart from witness testimony and the general extermination
camp claims, which the analysis has already demolished. By a happy circumstance,
it is possible to consult the reports of the ICRC to learn what happened in
Hungary, but this is not the case with Poland. The reason for this is that the Germans
did not permit the ICRC to involve itself in Jewish affairs in countries in
which they considered themselves sovereign. However, the allies of Germany that
were considered independent states admitted the ICRC into Jewish affairs. Thus
develops the central importance of Hungary in the examination of the legend.
There are other respects in which the Report excerpt is of the greatest importance
in our study, but this point is more effectively made in Chapters 6 and 7 (pp.
242, 258, 265).
The Report excerpt is reproduced in full here because it is written in such a
way that it is difficult to cite on specific points without risking the possibility of
being accused of distorting meaning. This will be more clear after the reading:
“VI. Special Categories of Civilians
(A). JEWS
Under National Socialism the Jews had become in truth outcasts, condemned
by rigid racial legislation to suffer tyranny, persecution and systematic
extermination. No kind of protection shielded them; being neither PW nor
civilian internees, they formed a separate category, without the benefit of any
Convention. The supervision which the ICRC was empowered to exercise in
favour of prisoners and internees did not apply to them. In most cases, they
were, in fact, nationals of the State which held them in its power and which,
secure in its supreme authority, allowed no intervention in their behalf. These
unfortunate citizens shared the same fate as political deportees, were deprived
of civil rights, were given less favoured treatment than enemy nationals, who
at least had the benefit of a statute. They were penned into concentration
camps and ghettos, recruited for forced labour, subjected to grave brutalities
and sent to death camps, without anyone being allowed to intervene in those
matters which Germany and her allies considered to be exclusively within the
bounds of their home policy.
It should be recalled, however, that in Italy the measures taken against the
Jews were incomparably less harsh, and that in the countries under the direct
influence of Germany, their situation was usually less tragic than in Germany
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