Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
notably the American Friends Service Committee. The WRB and the three U.S.
government departments involved with the WRB were specifically “authorized to
accept the services or contributions of private persons or organizations.” 395 We
therefore have a rather slippery entity involved here, engaged in both propaganda
and relief work, with the rights of a government operation when an official status
seemed convenient and the rights of a private organization when a private status
was advantageous.
Relief activities were carried on by the WRB from about mid-1944 to mid-
1945, at which time the operations of an international character fell almost entirely
into the hands of the UNRRA. This organization had been set up in November
1943 and had operated until March 1949. Its first director, appointed by Roosevelt,
was Herbert Lehman, ex-Governor of New York State and a leading New
Deal Democrat. Roosevelt’s reported logic for choosing Lehman was as follows:
396 “It would be a fine object lesson in tolerance and human brotherhood to
have a Jew head up this operation, and I think Herbert would be fine.”
Lehman was succeeded in early 1946 by Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-Mayor of
New York City. Although LaGuardia’s father was not Jewish and he naturally
found it profitable to court the huge New York Italian vote, LaGuardia really
counts as a Jewish Zionist politician and is essentially treated as such by the Encyclopedia
Judaica. Thus, we can be sure that the crowd involved here is basically
the same as with the WRB. Also, we again have a slippery entity, this time because
it is a so-called international organization. For example, when Congress
demanded in September 1945 that the General Accounting Office be allowed to
examine the UNRRA operations (the U.S. was said to be paying about two-thirds
of the costs of UNRRA, but the fraction was probably somewhat higher), Lehman
told it to mind its own business. 397
The UNRRA operations were far-flung. Most of the UNRRA aid went to Eastern
Europe, and the amount sent to Poland was second only to that sent to China.
Aid was also sent to White Russia and Ukraine. 398
By mid-1944, the WRB and the UNRRA were operating a large system of
refugee camps in North Africa, Italy, and Palestine. These camps were almost exclusively
for Jews. Starting in 1944, extensive evacuations of Jews from Europe
to these camps were in progress. Many were evacuated from the Balkans via Istanbul,
and there was also a Black Sea route through Istanbul. Entry into the U.S.
or countries of South America was sought and obtained for many of these people
while the war was still in progress. It was in this context that the camp at Oswego,
NY, right next to the Canadian border, was established. In addition, many who
had not initially been put into one of the camps in Palestine managed to reach that
destination anyway. 399
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US-WRB (1945), 3-4, 12-13.
Rosenman, 399.
New York Times (Sep. 21, 1945), 7.
New York Times (Dec. 23, 1945), 1.
US-WRB (1945), 9, 16-45, 61-69, 72-74.
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