Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Pastor Otto Wehr, Sarrebruck.
Pastors Schlaeger and Bittkau, Neuruppin near Berlin.
August Franz and his entire family, great anti-Nazi, Sarrebruck, now at
Talheim-Wurttemberg.
Doctor Straub, Metzingen-Wurttemberg, and family.
[unsigned]”
With the exception of Niemöller and Dibelius, I recognize none of the names
on the list of “anti-Nazis” in connection with any known wartime activities,
anti-Nazi or otherwise. The only one I recognize in any connection is Dr. Hermann
Ehlers, who became a leading CDU politician after the war and who died in
1954. It may be that the person identified as “Praeses Dr. Koch” is supposed to be
Dr. Karl Koch, a Protestant theologian who was a member, along with Dibelius,
of the DNVP in the Weimar days and who died in 1951.
The next part of document 1553-PS is a letter to Gerstein from DEGESCH regarding
the preservability of the Zyklon and the possibilities for future shipments
in the face of bombing attacks which had destroyed a plant. The letter would be
worth reproducing here only if it, too, were in French (it is in German). The next
part of the document is a short handwritten note:
“According to the annexed notes, the prussic acid was requested by the
Reichs-Sicherheitshauptamt, Berlin W 35, Kurfürstendamm, by order of SS
Sturmbannführer Guenther. I was in charge of this particular job and I performed
my duties very faithfully, so that once the acid had arrived at Oranienburg
and Auschwitz, I could have the boxes disappear into the disinfestation
rooms. Thus it was possible to prevent a misuse of the acid. In order to avoid
drawing the attention of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt to the presence – or,
as I should say, to the absence – of these stocks, I never paid for these shipments,
the bills for which went to the same address, that is, my own. In this
manner, it was possible to have the acid disappear as soon as it had arrived. If
the absence of the acid had been noticed I would have answered: It is a mistake
made by the local disinfestation office which did not know, and should not
have known, either, the real destination; or I would have said: The acid had
become putrefied and it was impossible to keep it any longer.
[signed:] Gerstein”
The final part of the document is the note in English:
“Bergassessor a.D.
Domicil permanent:
Kurt Gerstein Tuebingen/Neckar, Gartenstr. 24
Diplomingenieur 26 April 1945
My report is intressant for Secret Service. The Things, I have seen, no more
than 4-5 others have seen, and these others were nazies. Many of responsables
of Belsen, Buchenwald, Maidanek, Oswice, Mauthausen, Dachau, etc. were
men of my service, daily I have seen them in my double position.
1) SS Fuehrungs-Hauptamt, D, Sanitary-service and
2) Reichsarzt SS and Polizei, Berlin
I am in a situation to say the names and crimes of in reality responsables of
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