Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
most eastern part. Because the territory of post-war Poland is made up of what
had been eastern Germany and western and central Poland (Russia acquiring what
had been eastern Poland), this means that most Jews had, indeed, been removed
from what is today referred to as Poland. In connection with the large ghettos,
which are mentioned above, it is worth noting that Lwow, Grodno, Vilna, Kovno,
and Riga were all absorbed into the Soviet Union after the war, and that Bialystok
is now at the extreme eastern side of Poland. If there were about three million
Jews in Poland before the war then, when one takes into account the numbers,
which fled to the Soviet Union in 1939, those who were deported by the Russians
in 1940, those who managed to slip into such countries as Slovakia or Hungary,
and those who might have perished in epidemics, we see that there were at most
two million Polish Jews in scattered ghettos in German controlled territory, and
that the greater number of these people had been sent to territory considered Soviet
after the war.
Thus we see, in general outline sufficient for our purposes, the actual nature of
the so-called “final solution of the Jewish problem.” It is not necessary here to attempt
to fill in much more detail, and the ultimate prospects for providing great
detail are questionable in any case. That this “solution” was really in no sense “final”
and that the Jews would have returned with a change in the political climate,
is not so extraordinary. Twentieth century governments invariably give their projects
bold and unrealistic labels: Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Head Start,
war to end wars, etc.
What Happened to Them
It remains to consider what happened to all of these people. Here again we
have a situation, in which there exists much less data than one would hope for.
However, we have enough information to reconstruct what happened to an extent
suitable for our purposes. Actually, we must consider several possibilities in this
respect. The following are the reasonable possibilities.
1. The Germans liquidated many while in retreat, because these people could
be considered manpower to be employed against the Germans. It is necessary to
consider this as a reasonable possibility because we have noted that the Germans
had, indeed, considered this aspect of the matter seriously enough to make it difficult
for Jews to emigrate from Europe.
However, there are two things working strongly against the possibility that the
Germans liquidated on a significant scale while in retreat. First, the most able
workers, who were also of military age, had already been picked out for labor and
were being employed by the Germans in various ways. Second, and most importantly
and simply, if the Germans had carried out such liquidations on a large
scale, the Allies would have charged them with it. The Allies would have had material
for legitimate extermination charges rather then the “gas chamber” nonsense.
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