Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
the end of the war.
Concentration camp administration was under the WVHA, Economic-
Administrative Main Office, headed by SS General Oswald Pohl. As its name
suggests, the WVHA was concerned with the economic role of the SS which had
arisen, for the most part, on account of the availability of the labor of concentration
camp inmates. The commandants of the concentration camps reported to the
Inspectorate of Concentration Camps, headed by SS Brigadier General Glücks,
who reported to Pohl. Pohl reported to Himmler, and was formally equal in rank
to Kaltenbrunner and Heydrich.
It is convenient to state at this point, in very general terms, what was going on
with respect to the Jews of Europe during the life of the Nazi regime. Before the
war, the German Government had used all means to encourage the emigration of
Jews from Germany, and most German Jews had left Germany before the outbreak
of the war. The persistent problems in connection with this emigration program
were, first, the dislocations of the economy which were entailed in moving
the Jews out and, second, the difficulty in arranging for other countries to take the
Jews. By the summer of 1941, Germany was at war with Russia, and huge numbers
of Jews, i.e., the greater part of all the Jews of Europe, were in the German sphere
of influence. However, the war had also opened up, temporarily, vast new territories
for the Germans, and consequently, a program of Jewish resettlement got under way
in the autumn of 1941. Through the course of the war, as long as Germany controlled
any significant amount of eastern territory, European Jews were being resettled
in the East. There were also a certain number of young, adult Jews conscripted
for labor.
On account of certain political problems and the priority of war requirements,
the resettlement program was only partially carried out and, of course, nowhere
near six million Jews were involved. Excluding Polish and Romanian Jews, perhaps
750,000 Jews were resettled, primarily in the Ukraine, White Russia, and
Latvia. Not all Polish Jews fell under German domination. Apart from those who
managed to flee before or after the German occupation, several hundred thousand
or perhaps a million Jews had been deported from Poland by the Russians in 1940
and had been dispersed in the Soviet Union. For the most part, the Polish Jews
who came into German hands were crowded into ghettoes in eastern Poland (1939
boundaries).
What happened to all of these people can be established only in a very general
way, because all of the territory that the Jews had been resettled onto became Soviet
territory after the war, and because the victorious powers engaged in considerable
suppression of the data. However, there is sufficient evidence to permit us
to see approximately what happened. Although it is very likely that a fair number
perished in the disorderly and chaotic conditions that accompanied the German retreats,
it is established that a large number of Jews, predominantly of pre-war Polish
nationality, were absorbed into the Soviet Union, and the remainder of the
Jews who had been uprooted ultimately resettled in Palestine, the U.S., Europe,
and elsewhere.
These general remarks are supplied here to serve as a background to assist the
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