Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
tlement in the Soviet area (Smolensk), thus freeing the General Government
for German settlement.”
Koehl does not provide any evidence for the killings by Ukrainians or the Baltic
peoples; the sources cited at this point make no such claims. Then in referring
to the extermination camps: 379
“In the fall and winter of 1941-1942, the last 240,000 Jews of the annexed
provinces were removed to the newly constructed extermination camps at
Kolo, Belzec, Majdanek, and Sobibor.”
The list excludes Auschwitz, which comes up in Koehl’s book only in a remark
about some Germans sent there for punishment, in connection with “Action
Reinhardt” (to be explained below) and also in the following: 380
“[Dr. Klukowski] stated that of 691 villages in the county of Zamosc, 297
were wholly or partly evacuated by July 1943. He estimated that 110,000
Poles and Jews were removed from the area, males and females of working
age going to forced labor in the Auschwitz Hydrogenation Plant, the rest going
to the other 394 (‘Z’) villages.”
One may draw one’s own conclusions. Koehl’s book is recommended to the
reader who wishes a detailed view of Nazi population policies, especially in their
relations to German nationalism, Nazi racial ideology, and internal Nazi party
politics.
Numbers Deported: Whence and Whither
Many European Jews were deported East, and we should now take a closer
look at this program of deportations. There are several obvious questions: who
was deported, how many, to where, what was life like where they were sent, and
what happened to them. To some extent only partial or provisional answers are
possible here.
First, we should consider the numbers and origins of the Jews involved in this
resettlement program. Here we run into the problems discussed in Chapter 1;
counting Jews can be difficult. However, it is not statistical accuracy we seek here
but order of magnitude or approximate figures that can be used to show that, on
the basis of verifiable data, the Jews who were deported could easily have survived
after all. It will thus be satisfactory to merely accept certain figures offered
by Reitlinger and by Hilberg for the purposes of discussion, although one can pick
quarrels with them (as one can with Rassinier’s study). The figures are estimates
of numbers killed; it is understood that here we assume that these people had
merely been resettled in the East. In the case of Reitlinger we employ his higher
estimate: 381
379
380
381
264
Koehl, 146.
Koehl, 130, 184.
Reitlinger, 533-546; Hilberg, 670.