Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
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October 1936, released, was expelled from civil service. From December 1936
till the beginning of the war, medical studies at the Institute for the Protestant
Medical Mission in the tropics, at Tuebingen. One-third – approximately – of
income, that is one-third of 18,000 Reichsmarks per year, I donated since 1931
for my ideal religious goals. At my own expense, I had printed and mailed
about 230,000 religious anti-Nazi pamphlets.
14 July to 28 August 1938, second imprisonment, in the Welzheim concentration
camp. Hearing of the massacres of idiots and insane people at
Grafeneck, Hadamar, etc., shocked and deeply wounded, having such a case
in my family, I had but one desire, to see, to gain an insight of this whole machine
and then to shout about it to the whole world! With the help of two references
written by the two Gestapo employees who had dealt with my case, it
was not difficult for me to enter the Waffen SS. 10 March to 2 June 1941, elementary
instruction as a soldier at Hamburg-Langehorn, Arnhem and Oranienburg,
together with forty doctors. Because of my twin studies – technology
and medicine – I was ordered to enter the medical-technology branch of the
SS-Fuehrungshauptamt (SS Operational Main Office) – Medical Branch of the
Waffen SS – Amtsgruppe D (Division D), Hygiene Department. Within this
branch, I chose for myself the job of immediately constructing disinfesting apparati
and filters for drinking water for the troops, the prison camps and the
concentration camps. My close knowledge of the industry caused me to succeed
quickly where my predecessors had failed. Thus, it was possible to decrease
considerably the death toll of prisoners. On account of my successes, I
very soon became a Lieutenant. In December 1941, the tribunal which had decreed
my exclusion from the NSDAP obtained knowledge of my having entered
the Waffen SS. Considerable efforts were made in order to remove and persecute
me. But due to my successes, I was declared sincere and indispensable. In
January 1942, I was appointed Chief of the Technical Branch of Disinfestation,
which also included the branch for strong poison gases for disinfestation.
On 8 June 1942, the SS Sturmbannfuehrer Guenther of the ReichsSicherheits-
Hauptamt entered my office. He was in plain clothes and I did not know him.
He ordered me to get a hundred kilograms of prussic acid and to accompany
him to a place which was only known to the driver of the truck. We left for the
potassium factory near Colling (Prague). Once the truck was loaded, we left
for Lublin (Poland). We took with us Professor Pfannenstiel MD, Ordinary
Professor for Hygiene at the University of Marburg on the Lahn. At Lublin, we
were received by SS Gruppenfuehrer Globocnek. He told us: this is one of the
most secret matters there are, even the most secret. Whoever talks of this shall
be shot immediately. Yesterday, two talkative ones died. Then he explained to
us: at the present moment – 17 August 1942 – there are three installations:
1. Belcec, on the Lublin-Lemberg road, in the sector of the Russian demarcation
line. Maximum 15,000 persons a day. (Seen!)
2. Sobibor, I do not know exactly where it is located. Not seen. 20,000 persons
per day.
3. Treblinka, 120 km NNE of Warsaw. 25,000 persons per day. Seen!