Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Appendix C: Deportation of Jews
The six booklets which are the Netherlands Red Cross report entitled Auschwitz
are actually about the approximately 100 transports of Jews which left the
Netherlands, the first leaving on July 15, 1942, and the last on September 13,
1944. Auschwitz was the immediate destination of about two-thirds of the deported
Jews, although large numbers were also sent to Sobibor, and some were
sent to Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen, and Ravensbrück. The Netherlands Red
Cross (NRC) data is exhaustive in regard to all matters pertaining to the transports
while they were in the Netherlands; the dates of departure, the destinations of the
transports, and the numbers of people in each transport, with breakdowns of the
numbers according to sex and age. The authors assume that all Jews whom they
are unable to account for, after the Jews reached their immediate destination, were
gassed or perished in some other manner. Thus, they conclude that a majority of
the approximately 100,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands perished, since,
obviously, their study is very short on data regarding what happened at the camps
when these people reached them. There are, however, exceptions to those statements;
there is data regarding the evacuation of Auschwitz in 1945 and there are
other bits, e.g., data from the Monowitz hospital. The most significant data, however,
is what is said to be the registration and death record from the Birkenau
men’s camp for the period July 16 to August 19, 1942, which is presented in volume
two of the report. Because the NRC also provides detailed data regarding the
Jewish transports from Westerbork (transit camp in the Netherlands) during this
period, a comparison can be made, and the comparison (as Reitlinger admits) contradicts
the claim that a majority or even a significant number of the Jews were
immediately gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. There were thirteen transports from
Westerbork in July and August, 1942, and they were composed as follows:
Table 13: Men transported from Westerbork in July and August, 1942
BREAK-DOWN BY AGE
DATE TOTAL 0-12 13-15 16-17 18-35 36-50 51-60 61+
15-Jul 663 41 9 85 356 157 11 4
16-Jul 640 32 7 41 285 193 62 20
21-Jul 511 62 14 54 317 61 2 1
24-Jul 573 51 6 83 340 75 11 7
27-Jul 542 60 17 90 315 55 4 1
31-Jul 540 47 13 93 326 56 5
3-Aug 520 72 21 31 255 139 1 1
7-Aug 510 67 28 21 172 168 48 6
10-Aug 288 18 8 19 93 97 45 8
14-Aug 238 43 14 5 36 68 72
17-Aug 364 36 8 11 247 60 2
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