Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
Table 10: U.S. government immigration data
REGULAR IMMIGRATION DPS
AREA 1941-1950 1951-1960 1948-1952
TOTAL
FROM AREA
Austria 24,860 67,106 8,956 100,922
Belgium 12,189 18,575 951 31,715
Czechoslovakia 8,347 918 12,638 21,903
Denmark 5,393 10,984 62 16,439
Estonia 212 185 10,427 10,824
France 38,809 51,121 799 90,729
Germany 226,578 477,765 62,123 766,466
Greece 8,973 47,608 10,277 66,858
Hungary 3,469 36,637 16,627 56,733
Italy 57,661 185,491 2,268 245,420
Latvia 361 352 36,014 36,727
Lithuania 683 242 24,698 25,623
Netherlands 14,860 52,277 64 67,201
Poland 7,571 9,985 135,302 152,858
Romania 1,076 1,039 10,618 12,733
USSR 548 584 35,747 36,879
Yugoslavia 1,576 8,225 33,367 43,168
gration quotas and regulations would be respected. 418 If they were indeed respected,
then the effect on Jewish admissions would nevertheless have been secondary
because they entered under the categories of the various nationalities:
German, Austrian, Dutch, Polish, etc. However, the existing regulations did not
permit the admission of as many persons as was desired, so shortly after the war,
there was special legislation relating to the admission of DPs, in which “existing
barriers were set aside.” The legislation also set up a “Displaced Persons commission”
to assist in the resettlement of the immigrants and, according to the account
of the Commission, over 400,000 such persons were resettled in the U.S. in the
period 1948-1952 (the period specified in the legislation). The official account
goes on to claim that only 16 percent of these 400,000 were Jewish, but that is just
the official account of a government which had taken specific steps to assure that
the relevant data would not exist. 419
For what it is worth, we summarize here the more relevant parts of the immigration
data that the U.S. government has published, see table 10. 420
We have only given the numbers for selected European countries, i.e. those
countries that may have contributed many uprooted Jews, although there is a difficulty
involved here, as we shall see shortly. The total for Hungary 1951-1960
does not seem to include those who entered on account of special legislation
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New York Times (Dec. 23, 1945), 1.
US Displaced Persons Commission, v, 248.
This data comes ultimately from the Annual Report of the US Immigration and Naturalization
Service. In this case, I employed the summaries given in the Information Please Almanac (1969)
and the Statistical Abstract of the US (Sep. 72).
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