Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 5: The Hungarian Jews
Jews to Germany for labor.
On the subject of the Hungarian Jews, a certain amount was going on between
March and October 1944, but whatever it was, the events which began in October
1944 after the arrest of Horthy were the most severe. The excerpt is most emphatic
on this point in two places and, moreover, to place the critical date in the
autumn of 1944 is fully consistent with the identical claim for the contiguous
countries of Slovakia and Croatia.
It was after October 15 that “the full tide of the great tribulations of the Hungarian
Jews was to set in” on account of the “German pressure (which) was reasserted,
from March 1944 onwards,” which in October 1944 “provoked a violent
crisis; executions, robberies, deportations, forced labor, imprisonments.” The
Jews “suffered cruelly and lost many killed, especially in the provinces.”
To repeat, there was a certain amount going on prior to October 1944, including
deportations, but the Report asserts unambiguously that the events beginning
October 1944 were the major ones for the Hungarian Jews. The “executions” and
“robberies” probably refer to private actions of Hungarians taken, perhaps, with
the implicit encouragement or at least unconcern of the new puppet government.
The Report is fully precise about the “deportations” and “forced labor” measures
that were instituted in October 1944. Jews were put to work on fortifications in
Hungary and the Germans decided to send 60,000 to Germany for labor (the
number actually deported in this action was between 35,000 and 45,000). There
being no rail transport available, the Jews had to walk, as least as far as Vienna,
but the Red Cross organized aid along the route. 270
It is not possible that the ICRC delegation in Hungary could have been unaware
of anti-Jewish measures occurring significantly earlier in 1944, which even
equaled in severity, much less dwarfed, the events beginning in October 1944. After
all, the Jewish Senate of Budapest was being quartered in the Red Cross legation,
and was doubtless fully informed on Hungarian Jewish matters. In addition,
the later extermination claims would have “reminded” the delegate of far more
drastic events earlier in the year, if they had actually occurred, as we shall see
shortly.
Before passing on to consider the specific claims of extermination of Hungarian
Jews, we should touch briefly on a few points made in the excerpt in connection
with Theresienstadt.
We have had occasion in previous chapters to remark on Theresienstadt in Bohemia-Moravia
(western Czechoslovakia) and our remarks are consistent with
those of the excerpt. What is arresting in the Red Cross account is the report that
“this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich, who
were apparently less hostile to the Jews than those responsible for the racial policy
of the German government. These men wished to give to Jews the means of setting
up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing
almost complete autonomy.”
Jewish policy was administered by Eichmann’s office in the RSHA of the SS,
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Red Cross (1948), vol. 3, 523.
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