Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
There is no doubt that many Jews died during the war, so we should expect that a
part of the Yad Vashem claim is valid, but it is also the case that there is no possible
way to distinguish, in this data, between Jews who actually died during the
war and Jews with whom the signers of the “testimony sheets” have merely lost
contact. The data is particularly meaningless when it is a “friend” who has contributed
a declaration; I have lost contact with a great many former friends and
acquaintances, but I assume that nearly all are still alive. Indeed, the use of the
testimony of “friends” for the purpose of gathering the Yad Vashem data shows
that the data is mostly meaningless; such “friends” have no more basis for declaring
their missing acquaintances dead than I do. 424
I have no idea what is meant by the “witnesses” who signed the testimony
sheets. There is also a better than negligible possibility that some signers of these
declarations invented missing friends and relative for any of a number of possible
motivations, and it is even possible that some of the signers never existed.
To summarize our reaction to the claims of Jews regarding persons said to be
victims of the “holocaust,” such claims are no doubt valid to some extent, because
many Jews died, but the hard data possessed by Jews who report such losses,
when they are reporting truthfully, is not conclusive in regard to the deaths of the
persons involved, and certainly in no way implies the existence of a Nazi extermination
program.
Postwar Germany and Willy Brandt
One must be careful in interpreting the fact that Germans, themselves, seem to
believe in the exterminations. Certainly, most individual Germans seem to concede
the myth, and not all do so in order to stay out of trouble. However, it is clear
that the German people were no better situated to see the truth than anybody else.
Many might, indeed, have observed local Jews being deported, not to return after
the war, and this may have given some an even more vivid conviction in support
of the extermination hoax than that which holds generally. The basic observation
to make relative to the views of individual Germans is that the standard sort of
“information” on this subject has been available to them, and they are thus just as
innocently deluded as other nationalities.
The West German government, which, by interminable war crimes trials, now
being held thirty or more years after the alleged crimes, by instruction in the
schools, and now by means of naked terror, as shown in the Stäglich episode, 425
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Colorado Springs Sun (Jan. 30, 1973), 6.
As a punishment for publishing his recollections of Auschwitz, Stäglich’s pension as a retired
judge was reduced by 20% for five years; Nation Europa (Coburg), August 1975, p. 39. The reduction
of Stäglich’s pension was “naked terror” by the standards of 1975. That action against
Stäglich was mild in comparison to what was to come. Later on, the University of Göttingen revoked
Stäglich’s Dr.-jur. degree for having published his research results in the book Der Auschwitz
Mythos, which was seized and destroyed by the German authorities; German Federal Constitutional
Court, ref. 1 BvR 408f./83; Wigbert Grabert (ed.), Geschichtsbetrachtung als Wagnis,