Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Arabs pay for whatever the Germans are supposed to have done to Jews in Europe
during the Second World War. Moreover, Israel is not a land that welcomes all
persons who suffered in some way at the hands of the Nazis, but all Jews, regardless
of whether they or their relatives had ever had any contact with the Nazis.
Today the United States supplies enough aid to Israel to assure that Israel is
able to retain, by armed occupation, lands that the United States itself declares to
be rightfully Arab (the territories seized in the 1967 war). Although it is hard to
see why the six million legend should motivate such a policy, such a motivation
or justification is very often advanced. When, in November 1975, an overwhelming
majority at the United Nations, in a burst of intellectual clarity rare for that
organization, endorsed a resolution declaring Zionism to be a form of racism (a
truth as inescapable as 2 + 2 = 4) the U.S. representative Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
an otherwise impressive intellect, was reduced in astonishingly short order to
hysterical yapping about the six million. As was shown by the aftermath of the
“Yom Kippur War” of 1973, this support of Israel is completely contrary to the
interests of the West. The obvious fact that this support is immoral in terms of the
moralizing that has become a pervasive feature of Western foreign policies makes
it doubly mad.
Another country that has extended considerable material aid to Israel is West
Germany. As of 1975, the Bonn government had paid Jews several billion worth
of restitutions and indemnifications of various sorts (calculated mainly in terms of
dollars of the late Fifties and early Sixties), and was still making commitments for
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The largest single such program was defined in the 1952 Luxembourg Treaty
between the Federal Republic and Israel; Bonn committed itself to paying Israel
$750 million, primarily in the form of German industrial products and oil shipments
from Britain. The program, referred to in Israel as the Shilumin program,
was completed in 1966. The text of the Luxembourg Treaty opens with the
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“Whereas
unspeakable criminal acts were perpetrated against the Jewish people during
the National Socialist regime of terror
and whereas
by a declaration of the Bundestag on 27 September 1951, the Government
of the Federal Republic of Germany made known their determination, within
the limits of their capacity, to make good the material damage caused by these
acts […].”
The Bonn government has undertaken additional programs of indemnification
that have been similarly motivated. Because this work has shown that the “un-
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New York Times (Jan. 18, 1975), 6. Editor’s note: By 1963, total German payments amounted to
20 billion marks (5 billion 1963 dollars), and by 1984 the total had risen to 70 billion marks (23
billion 1984 dollars; D. v. Westernhagen, Die Zeit, Oct. 5, 1984, p. 36); in 2002, the German government
estimated total payments of 138 billion marks (some 78 billion 2003 dollars: Bundesministerium
der Finanzen (ed.), Entschädigung von NS-Unrecht, Berlin 2002).
Vogel, 56, 88-100.