Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 5: The Hungarian Jews
Kempner moved to Nice, France. He did not remain with the school for very long,
however, and emigrated to the United States in 1939. His mother already had a research
job at the University of Pennsylvania, and this connection seems to have
landed him his “research associate” position at that University. 287
He immediately resumed his anti-Nazi crusading. He had somehow managed
to smuggle out of Germany some of the Prussian police papers, to which he had
contributed, and these became the basis of a book, which he published privately in
1943. The book, in stencil form, attempted to show, on the basis of Kempner’s
past experiences in Germany, what should be done in Germany after the war in
order to permanently suppress Nazism. It did not achieve wide circulation but, together
with some other books and articles that he wrote, established him as a sort
of expert on fighting Nazis. He had also smuggled out some phonograph recordings
of Nazi meetings; these had been made by the Prussian police during the
years of his service. He contributed them to the University of Pennsylvania. He
also did a certain amount of anti-Nazi letter writing to the newspapers. As the war
was drawing to a close, he wrote that the Nazi leaders should be tried in the U.S.
before regular American courts. In the meantime, he had acquired U.S. citizenship.
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During the war he worked for both the U.S. Department of Justice and the
OSS. In the latter agency, he was charged with drawing up lists of German anti-
Nazis who could be trusted with posts in the coming occupation government of
Germany. He was one of a large group of German Jews in the OSS (which included,
e.g., Herbert Marcuse).
At the end of the war, Kempner switched to the War Department and accompanied
the U.S. Army back into Germany “on the payroll of the Judge Advocate
General.” Prior to the opening of the IMT trial, he served in the fairly significant
role of prosecution liaison with defense counsel and later on was in charge of the
division that prepared the U.S. trial briefs against individual defendants. During
the trial, he was an apparently ordinary member of the prosecution staff and specialized
in the prosecution of the Nazi Minister of the Interior Frick. He does not
appear to have been particularly prominent, although immediately after the trial he
contributed a magazine article to the New York Times on the great work the trial
had done in educating the Germans. The killings of the German military and political
leaders had not yet been carried out, so he simultaneously predicted, with
great satisfaction, that the doomed Nazis would be buried in unmarked graves to
“avoid fanatical pilgrimages by still ardent Nazis.” Actually, the ultimate procedure
was even more hysterical, because the bodies of Göring et al. were photographed
(in order to be gloated over shortly later in the press and in newsreels),
disguised in U.S. Army uniforms, taken secretly to Dachau and cremated there,
the ashes being sifted into a nearby stream. 289
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New York Times (Feb. 22, 1940), 22; (Aug. 26, 1940), 17; (Mar. 30, 1944), 6; (Nov. 14, 1945), 8;
(Jan. 17, 1946), 14; Select Committee, 1534-1535; Current Biography (1943), 370; Who’s Who in
World Jewry (1965), 498.
Kempner, 1-12; New York Times (Sep. 28, 1941), sec. 2, 6; (Jan 20,1945),10.
R. H. Smith, 217, 222; Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 5, 44; New York Times (Oct. 6, 1946), sec. 6, 8;
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