Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Case 11. SS Colonel Kurt Becher, representative in Hungary of the SS Führungshauptamt
(and thus of Himmler), served the prosecution at the IMT. In fact none
of the principals unquestionably involved in whatever were the German measures
relative to the Hungarian Jews stood trial at Nuremberg or (with the exception of
Eichmann) anywhere else. Eichmann was missing at the time of the Nuremberg
trials, and the others gave evidence for the prosecution of those whose involvement
had been at most peripheral.
The Producers
Nobody should be surprised to find the most sordid practices behind these trials.
We have seen in Chapter 1 (pp. 40-43) that no ethical limitations were respected
in the means sometimes employed to produce “evidence.” We should,
therefore, take a closer look at who was in charge in Case 11. Recall that there
was no substantial “indictment” process involving a grand jury, and that, as one
may confirm by reading DuBois‘ book, it was the prosecution in each case that
decided who was to be put on trial and with what he was to be charged.
The Wilhelmstrasse Case was not really commensurate with the other cases
tried before the NMT; all of the latter had had special purpose characters, as Table
4 shows (p. 35). The Ministries or Wilhelmstrasse Case, however, was somewhat
like a “little IMT,” that is, people from an assortment of German government ministries
were put on trial and the trial had a correspondingly wide scope. Thus, it
was split into an “economic ministries section” and a “political ministries section,”
each of which had different prosecution staffs.
The important section from our point of view and, indeed, the most politically
important case to come before the NMT was the political ministries section of
Case 11, whose chief prosecutor was Robert M. W. Kempner, who has quite a
history. It is very useful to present a short summary here of the “high” points of
his career.
Kempner, a Jew, was born in Germany in 1899, studied law, and joined the
Prussian Ministry of Interior during the Twenties. In the years 1928-1933, he was
a senior counsel for the Prussian State Police (under the Ministry of the Interior)
and specialized in investigating the rising Nazi Party. He became an anti-Nazi
crusader in his official capacity and energetically attempted, without success, to
have the party outlawed.
When the Nazis took over the German government in 1933, he was dismissed
from his government position, but although Jewish, he was able to continue his
legal practice for a short while as a counselor in international law and Jewish migration
problems and also, apparently, as legal counsel for the German taxi drivers’
organization. Whether or not he spent any time in a camp or in some other
form of detention is not clear. In any case, he moved to Italy in 1935 to take an
administrative and teaching (political science) position at a small school in Florence.
The Mussolini government closed the school in 1938, so the school and
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