Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 1: Trials, Jews and Nazis
Table 2: U.S. Jewish population
YEAR JEWISH POPULATION
1917 3,388,951
1927 4,228,029
1937 4,770,647
1949 5,000,000
1961 5,530,000
It is important to note that all of the U.S. Jewish population figures are given
by the same source (Linfield).
The indicated growth of U.S. Jewish population, 1917-1937, is 40.8%, while
the growth of total U.S. population, 1920-1940, is 24.6%. This contrast is generally
reasonable, since in the period under consideration Jewish immigration was
fairly heavy. However, Jewish immigration into the U.S. raises some problems of
its own. The American Jewish yearbook gave a net Jewish immigration for the
years 1938-1943 and 1946-1949 (inclusive) of 232,191. 24 Figures for 1944 and
1945 do not seem to be available. It was in those two years, incidentally, that an
indeterminate number of Jews were admitted to the U.S. “outside of the regular
immigration procedure.” It was claimed that there were only 1,000 such Jews
quartered at a camp near Oswego, New York, and that they were not eligible for
admission to the U.S. This was supposed to be a U.S. contribution to relieving the
problems of refugees, but the whole episode seems most strange and suspicious. 25
Rather than attempt to settle the problem of the extent of Jewish immigration,
suppose one allows the Jewish population a growth rate in 1937-1957 at least
equal to that of the U.S. Jewish population of 1917-1937, as seems at least reasonable
in view of various facts, e.g., the reasons which sent 1.5 million Jews to
Palestine during the World War II and aftermath period appear to motivate immigration
to the U.S. just as well, and no national or racial immigration quotas were
applicable to Jews as such. In such a case, there should be at least 6,678,000 Jews
in the U.S. in 1957, not the 5,300,000 that are indicated. There are about
1,400,000 Jews missing from the interpolated figures for 1957, and we consider
this a conservative figure for the reason given. The period 1937-1957 was one of
Jewish movement on an unprecedented scale.
On the other hand, we can adopt an equally conservative approach and assume
that the 4,770,647 Jews of 1937 grew in 1937-1957 at the same rate as the U.S.
population in 1940-1960. Under this assumption, these should have become
6,500,000 Jews in the U.S. in 1957. If one adds the reasonable figure of 300,000
more due to immigration, we have 6,800,000 in 1957. Thus, by either method of
extrapolation the figures offered for post-war U.S. Jewish population are at least
approximately 1.5 million short for 1957.
The specific major fault of the U.S. Jewish population figures is the inexplicably
small claimed growth from 1937 to 1949 despite record Jewish movement and
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World Almanac (1952), 438.
US-WRB (1945), 64-69; New York Times (June 10, 1944), 1; (June 13, 1944), 1; (Aug. 10, 1944),
5; (Oct. 24, 1944), 14; (Oct. 25, 1944), 13; Myer, 108-123.
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