Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 1: Trials, Jews and Nazis
diplomatic battle between the Zionists and the Arabs was being waged. Hilldring
“was a tower of strength from the outset […] as information link with the Jewish
representatives, he frequently conversed with Zionist strategists.” Then, at about
the time Marcus was made supreme commander of the Jewish forces in Jerusalem,
Hilldring was appointed back to the State Department as Assistant Secretary
of State for Palestine. Zionist sources have subsequently boasted that both the UN
and second State Department appointments were direct result of Zionist lobbying.
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The filling of the War Crimes Branch position with a fanatical Zionist, the
“first soldier since Biblical times to hold the rank of General in the Army of Israel,”
is not only significant in terms of what the Zionist might do in the position,
but also significant in revealing, in a simple way, the nature of the overall political
forces operating at the trials. This is the important point. It is simply not possible
to imagine an appointment that would make these trials more suspect.
Under these political conditions it is simply silly to expect anything but a
frame-up at the “trials.” The associated “extermination” hoax will be exposed
with complete clarity in these pages.
The Nazis
This book is written for people who are already informed on the European side
of World War II and the immediately preceding years. We have no intention of
reviewing the nature of the Nazi state, the roles of Göring, Himmler, Goebbels,
etc., or the anti-Jewish measures that were taken prior to the war, except that these
matters will be touched upon here and there as a matter of course. The major
events and approximate dates associated with the war are assumed known by the
reader.
When Europe was dominated by the Germans, it was not organized according
to the plan of the Treaty of Versailles; Figure 3 presents a map of Europe as it was
organized in the autumn of 1942, at the apex of Hitler’s power. Germany had annexed
Austria, Alsace-Lorraine, part of Czechoslovakia, and a great deal of Poland
(more than just the part that had been taken from Germany after World War
I). The part of Poland that remained was called the “General Government” and
had the status of a subject province governed by the Germans, as did the three
Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. In the same subject status were
White Russia, the Ukraine, Bohemia-Moravia (formerly western Czechoslovakia),
and Banat (long a part of Hungary dominated by ethnic Germans). The eastern
part of Czechoslovakia had become the independent state of Slovakia, and Yugoslavia
had been reorganized as Croatia and Serbia, corresponding to the two
dominant of the five nationalities that had constituted Yugoslavia. Italy also had
an interest in this area of Europe, controlled Albania, and shared influence in adjoining
countries with her German ally. Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
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Marcus; Berkman, 191-193, 199; John & Hadawi, vol. 2, 209n, 367; Zink, 209, 210; New York
Times (Apr. 8, 1943), 12; (Apr. 16, 1943), 10; (Mar. 17, 1946), 15; (Sep. 16, 1947), 10; (Apr. 29,
1948), 16; Blum, 383.
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