Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Supplement 2: Context and Perspective in the Holocaust Controversy
Also prominent among the Jewish organizations were the JA (Jewish Agency),
the unofficial Israeli government of the time, whose guiding light was Chaim
Weizmann, and which was represented in Geneva by Richard Lichtheim and
Abraham Silberschein. Zionism was also represented by the WJC (World Jewish
Congress), whose guiding lights were Nahum Goldman and Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise and whose principal representative in Switzerland was Gerhard Riegner.
The Swiss representatives of these and other Jewish organizations were in constant
contact with both Jews of occupied Europe and with Jewish and other representative
in the Allied countries. For example, postal and telephone communications
among Jews in occupied countries and those in neutral countries such as
Switzerland and Turkey were easily established. 516
As made abundantly clear by many books in addition to my own (e.g. Gilbert’s
book), it is from the WJC, supplemented by the JA, the Polish exile government
in London, and occasionally more obscure groups, that the early extermination
propaganda emanated.
Here are eight simple observations, all drawn from the literature of the defenders
of the legend (sometimes via the intermediary of my book), which establish
the non-historicity of the Holocaust or, more precisely, a program of mass physical
extermination of Europe’s Jews.
Wartime and Postwar Claims
The postwar claims had their origin in the wartime extermination claims.
However, the differences between the two are such that it is implied that the
wartime claims were not based on fact.
There are two principal sorts of differences between the wartime and postwar
claims. First, much of what was claimed during the war was dropped afterwards,
only a fraction being retained. Second, the centerpiece of the postwar claims,
Auschwitz, was not claimed at all until the very end of the relevant period.
Both observations were made in Chapter 3 of my book, the second was made
above, and both are confirmed by more recent publications. The first is shown by
listing specific examples, and those given in Hoax can be supplemented with
some taken from the recent literature, particularly the Gilbert book, which gives
numerous such examples. 517
To discuss a specific example, it is well to focus on one Jan Karski, a non-
Jewish member of the Polish resistance, who is said to have been sent from Poland
by the underground, in November 1942, to report to the Polish exile government
in London. His report described Polish Jews being sent to Treblinka, Belzec,
and Sobibor in railway cars packed with “lime and chlorine sprinkled with water.”
On the trip, half die from suffocation, poisonous fumes, and lack of food and water.
These are burned. The remainder are put to death by firing squads, in “lethal
gas chambers” and, at Belzec, in an “electrocuting station”; this remainder was
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Laqueur, pp. 4, 170f, 188.
M. Gilbert, pp. 31, 39f, 44, 170.
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