Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
by the indigenous population. It is said that recently, when apprehensions
were expressed in the East about a German retreat, indigenous persons endeavored
to ingratiate themselves particularly with those Jews employed in
German offices, in order to ensure better treatment at the hands of the Bolshevists.
The decent section of the indigenous population viewed these events with
great disapproval, because it saw in them the contradiction between National
Socialist principles and the actual attitude of the Germans.
Owing to improper labor assignment of Jews, the esteem of the Greater
German Reich and the position of its representatives are being harmed and the
necessity for effective police security of the occupied Eastern territories prejudiced.
Grave dangers could arise particularly from the fact that the Jews are
utilizing the jobs assigned to them for espionage and propaganda in the service
of our enemies.
I therefore request that the subordinate offices in the occupied Eastern territories
be given the following instructions:
1) Jews and persons of a similar status may only be employed in manual
labor. It is prohibited to employ them in office work (such as bookkeeping,
typewriting, card indexing, registration). Strict attention must be paid to the
fact that they will not be given work, which would permit them to draw conclusions
on matters that are to be kept secret.
2) It is forbidden to employ Jews for general or personal service, for the
discharging of orders, for the negotiation of business deals, or for the procuring
of goods.
3) Private association with Jews, Jewesses, and persons of a similar status
is prohibited as well as any relations beyond those officially necessary.”
The “persons of a similar status” referred to were probably mainly gypsies. We
assume that Steengracht’s counsel made a thorough search of the documents
which had been allowed to survive at Nuremberg. Hildebrandt’s order to the
RuSHA merely repeated, verbatim, a Kaltenbrunner order of August 13, 1943, to
all German offices in the occupied eastern areas (document NO-1247). The failure
of Steengracht to use NO-1247 was probably due to its being nearly identical to
NO-1624.
Such documents are only a pathetic scrap from what must have been extensive
written records dealing with the Jewish settlements in the East. The first was
probably allowed to survive because it speaks of “fantastic rumors” in circulation
in Slovakia. The other two probably just slipped through because their implications
were not sufficiently obvious.
In Boehm’s book We Survived, Jeanette Wolff, a German Jewess who was a
leader of the German Social Democratic Party, has contributed an article on her
experiences after being deported to Riga in Latvia. Her tale of gratuitous beatings
by the SS, sex orgies, and drunkenness is not believable. Her article is worth noting,
however, because it shows that there was a large system of settlements, ghettos,
and camps for Jews in the vicinity of Riga. These settlements quartered not
only Latvian Jews, but also large numbers of Jews deported from Germany and
other European countries. Of course, in Chapter 4 (p. 140) we noted the There-
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