Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
documents bearing on Jewish policies, except for those we have identified as forgeries,
fall within the scheme implied by it. The “final solution” meant the expulsion
of all Jews from the German sphere of influence in Europe. After the invasion
of Russia, its specific meaning was the resettlement of these Jews in the East.
The German documents at every level (among those that have survived) express
this unambiguously, a fact which is conceded even by the bearers of the extermination
legend, who are forced to declare that this must just be code terminology
for extermination. 366
Actually, in the discussions prior to this chapter, we have had several occasions
to refer to this program of resettlement to the East. Its most important expression
has been in the Red Cross excerpt which, despite its ambiguous remarks
about “extermination,” presents a picture in rather close accord with the story told
by NG-2586-J. At Theresienstadt, the Red Cross wondered if the place “was being
used as a transit camp and asked when the last departures for the East had
taken place.” In Slovakia the Jews had been subject to “forced immigration towards
the territories under German control.” A large number of Romanian Jews
had been resettled in the East, but things did not work out and many returned, although
there had been adequate opportunity to exterminate them, if such had been
the policy. Despite the several vague and ambiguous remarks about “extermination,”
which we noted in Chapter 5 (p. 179), the undeniable effect of the Red
Cross Report is to confirm that the Germans were doing what their documents say
they were doing.
The German documents are not only confirmed by neutral authority; we have
seen that they are even confirmed by hostile sources. In Chapter 4 (p. 139), we
discussed the Theresienstadt Jews sent to Auschwitz, as related by the WRB report.
The manner of their treatment makes sense only if Birkenau was serving as a
transit camp for them. Moreover, the Israeli source cited on page 140 reported that
Theresienstadt Jews were, indeed, being sent to the East. Thus, even hostile
sources report that the Germans were doing what their documents say they were
doing.
What is described in NG-2586-J is the program as it existed starting in early
1939. Actually, on account of the pressures against the Jews between 1933 and
1939, the great majority of German-Austrian Jews had emigrated before the outbreak
of the war. The Germans had not cared very much where the Jews emigrated
to. Palestine seemed a good possibility on account of the British Balfour
Declaration of 1917, but negotiations with the British on this did not go very well,
because the British wished to maintain good relations with the Arabs who, at that
time, constituted the bulk of the population of Palestine. Nevertheless, there was
some steady Jewish emigration from Europe to Palestine, but this was finally cut
to a trickle by the policy announced by the British White Paper of May 1939. 367
The Madagascar project, fantastic as it seems today, was taken quite seriously
by the Germans, although nothing ever came of it. The war with Russia which
started in June 1941, opened up obvious new resettlement possibilities, and this
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Hilberg, 619 or 621.
Sachar, 365-368, 412-417; John & Hadawi, vol. 1, 295-326.