Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 8: Remarks
Jew who left Germany during the Thirties for the usual reasons, but started his
crusades for truth during the war with his investigations into the Katyn Forest
massacre and has spent the greater part of the postwar period investigating Operation
Keelhaul. His book on the subject was published in 1973. Solzhenitsyn’s The
Gulag Archipelago offers a long discussion of Operation Keelhaul, which, because
it is written from a Russian point of view, supplements Epstein’s treatment
notably. Nicholas Bethell’s The Last Secret explores the political background of
the forced repatriations.
For a reader interested in a more thoroughgoing discussion of the revisionist
literature, the best seems to appear in the testimonial volume Harry Elmer Barnes,
edited by Arthur Goddard. The pamphlet by Barnes, Blasting the Historical
Blackout, is a more intensive analysis of the status of World War II revisionism
and is still available.
None of the above named publications touch the gas chamber myth or deal in a
serious way with whatever was supposed to have happened in the German concentration
camps. Here we have treated the camps almost entirely from a single
point of view and have not deeply investigated the factual basis of other allegations
of brutalities of a more random and less systematic nature. However, the Ilse
Koch case, which was discussed in Chapter 2 (pp. 60-62), should be sufficiently
instructive in distinguishing between fact and fiction, and the methods used at Dachau
by the U.S. authorities to produce “evidence” of extraordinary brutalities
should be conclusive.
The scandal of the continued imprisonment of Rudolf Hess, who died in prison
in 1987 at age 93, was treated by a number of books while he was alive, notably
Prisoner No. 7: Rudolf Hess, by Eugene K. Bird, one of the U.S. commanders at
Berlin’s Spandau prison, who broke regulations by not only talking to Hess but
also interviewing him in depth. Two other books are Motive for a Mission by
James Douglas-Hamilton and Hess: The Man and His Mission by J. Bernard
Hutton.
Some Implications
In this book, we have necessarily restricted ourselves to the demolition of only
one myth and have not attempted to treat the very broad subject of the general behavior
of Nazi Germany as compared to the Allies, except by recommending the
above publications. They will help support the major implication of this work: the
media in the western democracies are exposed as constituting a lie machine of
vaster extent than even many of the more independent minded have perceived.
A second implication of this work naturally relates to Palestine. The “justification”
that Zionists invariably give for driving the Arabs out of Palestine always
involves the six million legend to a great extent. Of course, there is more than one
non sequitur involved; Palestine was not invaded by six million dead Jews or, indeed,
by any dead Jews, and in any case, it is not just or reasonable to make the
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