Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 6:
Et Cetera
The extermination claims have been so concentrated on Auschwitz that this
book could justifiably end right here; because the central part of the extermination
legend is false, there is no reason why the reader should believe any other part of
it, even if the evidence might appear relatively decent at first glance. Hundreds of
trained staff members were dispatched to Europe and employed there to gather the
“evidence” for exterminations and related crimes, and we have seen what kind of
story they have presented with respect to Auschwitz; a fabrication constructed of
perjury, forgery, distortion of fact and misrepresentation of documents. There is
no reason to expect a better case for the less publicized features of the extermination
legend. Nevertheless, the remainder of the story should be examined, partly
for the sake of completeness, partly because the examination can be accomplished
rather quickly, and partly because there is a respect in which one feature of the
legend may be partially true. It is also convenient to review here a few odd matters
that might strike some readers as evidence in support of the extermination
claims.
More ‘Extermination’ Camps
The evidence for exterminations at Belzec, Chelmno, Lublin, Sobibor, and
Treblinka is fairly close to zero. There is the Höss affidavit and testimony and the
“Gerstein statement.” There is a draft of a letter by Dr. Wetzel, another Nazi who
became immune from prosecution, speaking of there being “no objections to doing
away with those Jews who are unable to work, by means of the Brack remedy”
(NO-0365). The draft is typewritten and apparently initialed by Wetzel, who
had been head of the Race-Political Office of the NSDAP, but was transferred in
1941 to Rosenberg’s Ministry for the East, where he served as the expert for Jewish
affairs. There is no evidence that the letter, which is addressed to Hinrich
Lohse, Reichskommissar for the Ostland (map, Fig. 3), was ever sent. A similar
document, bearing a typewritten Wetzel signature, is NG-2325. Wetzel was not
called as a witness at any of the Nuremberg trials, and was not threatened with
prosecution until 1961, when he was arrested by German authorities in Hannover,
but his case seems to have immediately disappeared from the public record, and
nothing more was heard of him, except that he is said to have been finally charged
in 1966; if such is the case it is odd that he is not listed in the 1965 East German
Brown Book. However, no trial ever materialized. 307 We will have occasion to
comment on Lohse below.
The Viktor Brack of Wetzel’s letter was an official of the Führer-Chancellery,
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Hilberg, 562; Reitlinger, 137, 567; Rassinier (1962), 80n.
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