Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
as the germ cell of a new Jewish development, if they are allowed to go free.
(See the experience of history.)
In the program of the practical execution of the final solution, Europe is
combed through from the West to the East. The Reich area, including the Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia, will have to be taken in advance, alone for
reasons of the housing problem and other social-political necessities.
The evacuated Jews are brought first group by group into the so-called
transit ghettos, in order from there out to be transported farther to the East.
An important provision for the whole execution of the evacuation, so SS
General Heydrich explained further, is the exact establishment of the category
of persons who are to be included.
It is intended not to evacuate Jews over 65 years of age, but to remove
them to a ghetto for the aged – Theresienstadt is under consideration.
Along with these old-age classes – of the perhaps 280,000 Jews who on
31/10/1941 were in the Old Reich and in Austria, perhaps 30% are over 65
years old – there will also be taken to the ghettos for the aged the Jews who
are serious war-wounded cases and Jews with war decorations (Iron Cross,
First Class). With this appropriate solution the many potentials for exceptions
will be eliminated with one blow. […]
In connection with the problem of the effect of the Jewish evacuation on the
economic life, State Secretary Neumann stated that the Jews employed in warimportant
industries could not be evacuated for the present, as long as there
were no replacements available.
SS General Heydrich pointed out that these Jews, in accordance with the
directive approved by him for the execution of the current evacuations, would
not be evacuated.
State Secretary Dr. Bühler states that the Government General would welcome
the initiation of the final solution of this problem in the Government
General, because here for once the transport problem plays no out-of-theordinary
role, and here labor commitment considerations would not hinder the
course of this action. […] Furthermore, of the approximately two and one half
million Jews here in question the majority of cases were unfit for work. […]
He had only one request, that the Jewish problem in this territory be solved as
quickly as possible.”
Here is unambiguous documentary evidence that no extermination program
existed; the German policy was to evacuate the Jews to the East. It did not, moreover,
require the capture of German documents to expose this fact. It was well
known during the war and, during the resettlement program’s early states, it was
reported and commented on countless times in the Allied press. In the case of Vienna
Jews deported to Poland in early 1941, the New York Times even remarked
that they “found their new homes much more comfortable than they expected or
even dare hope.” Later reports on the resettlement program did not describe it so
favorably, but the press at least reported approximately what was going on. 371
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See particularly the New York Times (Feb. 28, 1941), 4; (Oct. 18, 1941), 4; (Oct. 28, 1941), 10;
(Feb. 9, 1942), 5; (Mar. 15, 1942), 27; (Aug. 6, 1942), 1.