Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
passed in connection with the refugees from the Hungarian rebellion in 1956,
about 45,000 of whom were admitted to the U.S. It is worth mentioning that
285,415 persons entered the U.S. from Europe in the years 1954-1971 under various
other provisions for refugees.
For reasons that will be clear when we attempt to interpret this data, we note
the immigration totals from the various continents:
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Table 11: Immigration totals by continent
REGULAR IMMIGRATION DPS
1941-1950 1951-1960 1948-1952
TOTAL
FROM AREA
Europe 621,704 1,328,293 405,234 2,355,231
Asia 31,780 147,453 4,016 183,249
N.&S. America 354,804 996,944 307 1,352,055
Africa 7,367 14,092 107 21,566
Pacific 19,242 16,204 10 35,456
Totals 1,034,897 2,502,986 409,674 3,947,557
An important point in interpreting this data is that, in the case of regular immigration
in the years 1941-1950 and 1951-1960, the country of origin is defined as
the country of last permanent residence, while in the case of the DPs who entered
in U.S. in 1948-1952, the country of origin is the country of birth.
That nationality was the country of last permanent residence in the case of
regular immigration makes these figures particularly difficult to interpret. This is
well illustrated by the total 766,466 who entered the U.S. from Germany, more
than 90 percent on the regular quota basis. If we imagine a German Jew as a Jew
who actually was raised in Germany and had possessed German citizenship, then
only a fraction of the 766,466 could have been Jews, for the simple reason that the
greater number of the estimated 500,000 or 600,000 German Jews had emigrated
before the war. In order to get some idea of the number of German Jews who
might have immigrated into the U.S. after the war, recall that the Jews deported
east by the Germans from France and Belgium were almost all German Jews who
had emigrated from Germany before the war. Thus, if we accept Reitlinger’s figures,
the total German Jews deported to the east might have been around 250,000.
If, say, half went to Palestine after the war, then it would appear that no more than
about 125,000 of the “Germans” who entered the U.S. could have been Jews.
However this calculation is upset by the simple observation that the status of
“permanent resident” might have been conferred on many of the Jews of several
nationalities who were quartered under various conditions in Germany immediately
after the war. The period was not noted for strict adherence to legalities, so it
is safe to assume that somewhat more than 125,000 of these “Germans” were
Jews. Likewise with the figures for Italy.
The haziness of the concept of “permanent resident” is also the reason for the
inclusion of immigration figures from such places as North and South America
and Asia. We should not expect that the uprooted Jews were particularly scrupulous
in regard to legal credentials, and we have seen this illustrated in the case of
the “Greeks” who passed through Czechoslovakia. It should not have been diffi-