Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
was that Jewish emigration could proceed in exchange for Germans held abroad,
especially if the Jews were not to go to Palestine. We have seen that Belsen
served as a transit camp for Jews who were to be exchanged. What was involved
in the Brand Affair was the same sort of thinking on the German side, with a
variation regarding the form of the quid pro quo. The Germans were willing to let
the Jews emigrate in exchange for the trucks and other supplies. Thus, there is
nothing implausible in the Brand affair, provided one understands that it was not
the lives of the Hungarian Jews that were at stake in the matter.
Although the Brand deal was not consummated, there was a trickle of German
and Hungarian authorized emigration of Jews from Hungary to, e.g., Sweden,
Switzerland, and the U.S. A rather larger number slipped into Romania and Slovakia
illegally in 1944 (reversing the earlier direction of movement, which had
been into Hungary). The defense documents Steengracht 75, 76, 77, and 87 give a
picture of the situation.
The survey of 1944 propaganda that was presented in this chapter shows that
Auschwitz (referred to as Owicim) finally emerged in the propaganda as an extermination
camp in the period immediately after D-Day, when nobody was paying
any attention to such stories. Later in the summer of 1944, the emphasis
switched to the camp at Lublin, which was captured by the Russians in late July.
The expected propaganda nonsense was generated in respect to the cremation ovens
(five in number) that were found there, the Zyklon, some bones (presumably
human), etc. Lublin remained the propaganda’s leading extermination camp well
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Can Anybody Believe such a Story
This concludes our analysis of the Auschwitz charges. It is impossible to believe
them; the allegations are so breathtakingly absurd that they are even difficult
to summarize. We are told that the Nazis were carrying out mass exterminations
of Jews at the industrial center Auschwitz, employing the widely used insecticide
Zyklon B for the killing. The 30 or 46 cremation muffles at Auschwitz, used for
disposing of the bodies of the very large numbers of people who died ordinary
deaths there, were also used for making the bodies of these exterminated Jews
vanish without a trace. As an extermination center, Auschwitz was naturally the
place that the Hungarian Jews were shipped to for execution. Shipments of Jews
conscripted specifically for desperately needed labor in military production were
delayed in order to transport the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz for execution. The
46 cremation muffles, which existed at Auschwitz, turned out to be inadequate to
dispose of people arriving at the rate of about 10,000 per day, so the bodies were
burned out-of-doors in pits. This cleaning out of the Hungarian Jews escaped the
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Lublin (Majdanek) propaganda appeared in Life (Aug. 28, 1944), 34; (Sep. 18, 1944), 17; Newsweek
(Sep. 11, 1944), 64; Reader’s Digest (Nov. 1944), 32; Time (Aug. 21, 1944), 36; (Sep. 11,
1944), 36; Saturday Review Lit. (Sep. 16, 1944), 44.