Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Some 4,000 Jews were moved out of the town to another town to make room
for free labor attached to the industries. On November 16, 1941, it was decided to
build a third camp, generally referred to as Monowitz, three miles east of the town
and close to the Farben plant, for quartering labor working on and in the plant.
Russian POW’s were again used for constructing the camp. 96 The relative locations
of the three camps are shown in Fig. 5. 97
There was also a large number of smaller camps in the outlying region, most
of them within a radius of 25 miles. These “outer camps,” of which Raisko and
Harmense were two relatively close-in examples, were administered by the
Auschwitz camp administration, and the number has been variously given as 13 to
39, depending upon what is considered a single camp. The smaller or outer camps
were mainly for those who worked at the five blast furnaces or five coal mines.
Monowitz and the collection of all outer camps taken together are sometimes referred
to a Auschwitz III. The collection of all camps, Auschwitz I, Birkenau
(Auschwitz II) and Auschwitz III, together with the industries which employed
the inmates, is usually what is referred to under the blanket term “Auschwitz.” 98
The prisoner population of Auschwitz II was nothing unusual except that there
was a significant number of British POWs. 99 The NMT judgment was that the use
of British POWs was not contrary to the Geneva Convention, because the Buna
factory had an ultimate peaceful purpose. 100 The Red Cross apparently concurred
because, although it was specifically aware of this situation, it did not mention the
employment of British POWs in its later report on the problems it had encountered
during the war in respect to the use of POWs for war-related work. 101
Typical camp strengths were 20,000 for Auschwitz I, 35,000 for Birkenau (30
to 60 percent women) and 15,000 for Auschwitz III. By a wide margin, Auschwitz
was the largest complex of concentration camps in the German system; in
August 1943, the second largest was Sachsenhausen with a population of
26,500. 102 There were also many free laborers working and living in the area. For
example, less than thirty per cent of the workers at the Farben plant were in the
“prisoner” category; more that half were free foreign workers who had enlisted
voluntarily for labor and the remaining approximate twenty per cent were ordinary
German employees. 103
Auschwitz I was the administrative center for all SS functions at Auschwitz.
These SS functions included the guarding, feeding, clothing, housing, recreation,
and disciplining of the prisoners, and also their medical services. The working
hours at Auschwitz were those standard for the German concentration camps:
eleven hours per day, six days a week, with extra work on Sunday mornings in
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Reitlinger, 114-115; DuBois, 156.
Central Commission, Figs. 2, 4; Langbein, 929.
Central Commission, 30; Reitlinger, 492; NO-021 in NMT, vol. 5, 385.
DuBois, 217-218, 223-227; Reitlinger, 115.
NMT, vol. 8, 1183-1184.
Red Cross (1947), 92; Red Cross (1948), vol. 1, 546-551.
Central Commission, 31; Reitlinger, 123, 492; 1469-PS and NO-021 in NMT, vol. 5, 382, 385.
NI-11412-A in NMT, vol. 8, 311-312.