Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
Table 8: Numbers of resettled Jews
REITLINGER HILBERG
Germany 180,000 160,000
Austria 60,000 53,000
Czechoslovakia 251,000 271,000
Denmark 1,000
France 65,000 70,000
Belgium 28,000 50,000
Luxembourg 3,000 2,000
Norway 700 1,000
Holland 102,700 120,000
Italy 8,000 17,000
Yugoslavia 58,000 63,000
Greece 60,000 62,000
Totals 816,400 870,000
To some extent these figures are based on German documents, notably the
“Korherr Report,” documents NO-5193-8; to some extent neutral sources are involved,
such as the Dutch Red Cross with the Holland figures. There is also a certain
amount of demographic speculation involved. However, I believe that at least
the totals given are of the correct order.
We do not admit Hungary into the list, because those said by both Reitlinger
and Hilberg to have been exterminated are pure invention; they were not even deported
East. Somewhat fewer than 100,000 were sent to Germany for labor toward
the end of the war; quite a few of these must have perished in the chaotic
conditions of the last months, but the number is essentially impossible to arrive at.
Romania is also supposed to have lost 200,000-370,000 Jews via extermination,
but as Reitlinger remarks, such figures are “conjectural” on account of “the
lack of reliable information.” Conceded to be in the same category are the largest
groups of allegedly exterminated Jews: 2,350,000-3,300,000 from Poland and
400,000-700,000 from the USSR. These figures are pure demographic speculation,
with absolutely no supporting data other than the declarations of post-war
Communist governments.
These figures will be considered further below. At this point we merely recall
that the Jews deported from France and Belgium were not French or Belgian Jews
(pp. 104, 109), but that those deported from Holland were almost all Dutch Jews
(p. 109). The reason for this appears to have been a mere legal technicality.
France and Belgium had formally surrendered to the Germans and formal armistice
terms were agreed to. In Holland, the Queen had merely fled to England and
thus the Germans viewed Holland as being without an independent state. 382 German
rights in Holland were correspondingly more extensive. Of course, the Germans
intended to eventually expel all Jews from Europe, but they naturally started
with the ones for which the minimum of legal difficulties existed.
The excerpt of the Red Cross Report, which we examined in Chapter 5, is cer-
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Reitlinger, 367, 377.
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