Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
“Towards the end of February 1945 my own situation changed completely.
By that time typhus had become a serious danger for the whole camp. It
was the species of typhus which is transmitted by lice. At one time all the
transports which arrived at Belsen had had to pass through a ‘human laundry’
and this disinfection seems to have been effective enough to keep the camp free
from lice until the autumn of 1944.
At the end of October a big transport had, for the first time, been admitted
to the camp without being disinfected, because there had been some damage to
the machinery of the shower-baths. Unfortunately the people of this transport
were louse carriers, and from that day the lice gradually spread over the
whole camp. […] Typhus broke out in Camp I about the end of January. At
first there were only a few cases, but a month later a dozen had appeared, and
it became impossible to check the disease […].”
Another serious complication was that, in the final months, Belsen was considered
a Krankenlager, a sick camp, so that many people entering were sick to
begin with. 57 The British could not check things at once, and over a quarter of
those alive when they took over the camp were to perish in the first four weeks. 58
Despite the very effective propaganda role of the Belsen scenes, nobody acquainted
with the most easily obtainable facts claims exterminations at Belsen,
and the British military court which tried the commandant, SS Captain Kramer,
never accused him of supervising an extermination camp at Belsen. 59 Today, in
fact, exterminations at any of the concentration camps in Germany are not
claimed by anybody trying to be serious; Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, etc. were
not extermination camps. The extermination camps are all supposed to have been
in occupied Poland, namely the camps referred to as Auschwitz, Belzec, Kulmhof
(Chelmno), Lublin (Majdanek), Sobibor, and Treblinka. 60
Also, exterminations of Jews were supposed to have been conducted in Russia
by the Einsatzgruppen, employing either mass shooting or “gasmobiles.” The
camps in Poland are also claimed to have employed “gas chambers” but, except
for the case of Chelmno, stationary rather than mobile ones.
Thus, the exterminations are supposed to have taken place only at locations
which had been abandoned before being captured by the Russians, not at camps
which were still functioning, however disastrously, when captured by Western
troops.
Although six extermination camps are claimed, one of them, Auschwitz, is the
key to the whole story. It is for Auschwitz that quantities of documentary evidence
are offered; there is little of any sort offered for the others. It was Auschwitz,
as will be seen, that got the very special attention of Washington long before
the end of the war. Thus, much of this work is necessarily concerned with the
claim that at Auschwitz Jews were being exterminated during World War II.
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Fyfe, 152.
Sington, 48.
Fyfe, 17.
Hilberg, 561-564; Reitlinger, 94, 147-150, 154.
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