Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
because the Russians controlled Auschwitz after January 1945.
The photograph of Fig. 7 is claimed to have been taken at Auschwitz in August
1944, but it has already been discussed in proper context. In any case, the
number of bodies evident in the photograph roughly corresponds to the rate of ordinary
deaths at Auschwitz, especially for 1942.
Despite all the attention the Hungarian Jews and Auschwitz were receiving at
the time and despite the Roosevelt promise publicized on March 25, the Americans
did not lift a finger either to interfere with the alleged deportations – by
bombing the specific rail lines involved – or with the alleged killings – by bombing
the “gas chambers.” They not only failed to take the opportunity to provide us
with photographic evidence for their claims, they also do not seem to have the
evidence despite having taken the photographs.
All of these considerations, the Red Cross Report, the wild impracticality of
exterminating Hungarian Jews in the spring and summer of 1944, and the nonexistence
of any relevant consequences of the Allied control of the air, compel the
conclusion that nothing resembling or approximating extermination actually happened
to the Hungarian Jews.
Air Raids on Auschwitz: Rudolf Vrba Overreaches
Himself
We will shortly review the evidence for the extermination claim, but first we
should provide an aside relative to the problem of the date of the first air raid at
Auschwitz. We remarked on page 126 that Rudolf Vrba’s claim that there was an
air raid at Auschwitz on April 9, 1944, undermines his credibility. We have indicated
above that Auschwitz was first bombed in August. This view is based
mainly on the Combat Chronology, edited by Carter and Mueller, that the U.S.
Air Force published in 1973, and on the standard and semi-official work by Craven
et al., The Army Air Forces in World War II. The latter also treats the activities
of the RAF Bomber Command, especially in connection with the oil campaign.
The corresponding four volume British work by Webster and Frankland,
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939-1945, bases its account of the
oil campaign on that of Craven et al.
An attack in early April seems completely out of the question. Auschwitz was
of strategic importance only as an oil target. Craven et al. provide an excellent
summary of the air force oil campaign. There had been a spectacular raid at
Ploesti in 1943, but there was no sustained oil campaign until the spring of 1944,
on account of disagreements among Allied leaders regarding target priorities. By
May 1944, only 1.1% of Allied bombs had fallen on oil targets. On March 17,
1944, the Fifteenth Air Force was advised to undertake attacks against Ploesti at
the first opportunity, but “surreptitiously under the general directive which called
for bombing transportation targets supporting German forces that faced the Russians.”
The first such attack came on April 5, and there were also attacks on April
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