Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
mate is about a million Jewish dead, but one can take very many exceptions to his
arguments. A figure of a million Jewish dead, while possible, seems rather high to
me. However, given the vast uncertainties involved, I really have no taste for arguing
the matter one way or another.
One should feel no need to apologize for such confessions of statistical ignorance.
Korzen, in his study of the Polish Jews dispersed by the Russian deportations
of 1940, confesses large and important areas of ignorance in his study, especially
in regard to numbers, and he had the friendly offices of the Israeli government
to help with his research. A study such as the present one necessarily labors
under severe handicaps regarding relevant statistics. Indeed, I was surprised that it
was possible to reconstruct statistical and quantitative aspects even to the incomplete
extent presented here. The most powerful groups on earth have sought to
distort the record of what actually happened to the Jews of Europe during the
Second World War.
J. G. Burg
In his memoirs, J. G. Burg (Josef Ginsburg) has presented a story completely
consistent with the historical record. At the outbreak of war in September 1939,
he was resident in Lemberg, Poland. He immediately fled with his family to Czernowitz,
Romania, in the province of Bukovina, which the Red Army occupied in
June 1940. A year later, the German attack on Russia drove out the Red Army,
and Ukrainian bands started conducting pogroms, which were halted by German
and Romanian troops. Later, Ginsburg and his family were deported east to
Transnistria, where life was at least bearable. A Mr. Kolb of the Swiss and International
Red Cross visited their settlement in early 1943.
After the German defeats mounted, there was growing tension between the
Germans and Romanians, and many Romanians attempted to befriend the Jews.
The German-Romanian front started to collapse in mid-1944, and Ginsburg and
family returned to Czernowitz. Everywhere there was chaos, starvation, and the
Russian terror. Even after the end of the war, conditions were not very good, so in
1946, Ginsburg and family moved on to Breslau and then proceeded to an UN-
RRA DP camp near Munich in the U.S. occupation zone of Germany. In the
camp, almost all Jews were naturally very interested in the possibility of proceeding
to the U.S., because they knew that many Jews were doing just that. However,
the Zionist leadership attempted by all means to divert their interest from the U.S.
to Palestine. To the question “Can one emigrate to the U.S. and remain a Zionist,”
a Professor Spiktor replieed:
“Whoever emigrates to the US in this hour of destiny, can not only be no
Zionist, he also thereby forsakes his own Jewish people.”
Six months later, Professor Spiktor emigrated to the U.S. Ginsburg and his
family went to Palestine with many of the other Jews from the camp.
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