Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Ossipova was shot and her house burned down. Further, two 16-year-old
youths from the village were shot because, according to their own confession,
they had rendered information and courier service to the partisans. […]
[…] Several Jews who had not been searched thoroughly enough by the
Lithuanian guards drew knives and pistols and uttering cries like ‘Long live
Stalin!’ and ‘Down with Hitler!’ they rushed upon the police force of whom 7
were wounded. Resistance was broken at once. After 150 Jews had been shot
on the spot, the transport of the remaining Jews to the place of execution was
carried through without further incident.
In the course of the greater action against Jews, 3,412 Jews were shot in
Minsk, 302 in Vileika, and 2,007 in Baranovichi.
The population welcomed these actions, when they found out, while inspecting
the apartments, that the Jews still had great stocks of food at their
disposal, whereas their own supplies were extremely low.
Jews appear again and again, especially in the sphere of the black market.
In the Minsk canteen, which serves the population with food and is operated
by the city administration, 2 Jews had committed large-scale embezzlements
and briberies. The food, which was obtained in this way, was sold on the black
market.”
It is not difficult to see why these documents exist: without them, the authors
of the lie would have no evidence for their claims except testimony. We have seen
that with Auschwitz there was an abundance of material facts to work with and
whose meanings could be distorted: shipments of Jews to Auschwitz, many of
whom did not return to their original homes, large shipments of a source of hydrogen
cyanide gas, elaborate cremation facilities, selections, the stench. The
situation with the Einsatzgruppen was different; there was only one fact: the executions.
Standing alone, this fact does not appear impressive as evidence, and this
consideration was no doubt the motivation for manufacturing these documents on
such a large scale. This is in contrast to the Auschwitz hoax, for which forgery of
documents is not nearly so prominent and where the forgeries were accomplished
with more care. With Auschwitz, we are dealing with a lie manufactured by
Washington, but with the Einsatzgruppen, we are dealing with one manufactured
by Moscow, and the hand is correspondingly heavier.
It is worth mentioning that the “gasmobiles” were not charged in Soviet
propaganda until the middle of the war. Massacres of Jews were claimed, of
course, early in the development of the propaganda, and the New York Times story
of April 6, 1942 (Chapter 3, p. 91), is an example. The massacres are not claimed
to have taken place via gasmobiles. A contemporary Soviet propaganda production
was the book We Shall Not Forgive! (Foreign Languages Publishing House,
Moscow, 1942). The book opens with a summary, presented by Molotov on April
27, 1942, of the crimes that the Germans had supposedly committed in their invasion
of Russia. The remainder of the book elaborates the charges with commentaries
and photographs, with quite a few obvious phonies in the collection. Since the
Germans are charged with virtually every crime imaginable, they are naturally
charged with pogroms and massacres of Jews, but gasmobiles do not appear in the
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