Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
Communist agent William L. Ullmann and was also a witness of White’s will. 134
Long had mixed and, as it developed, prescient thoughts about the implications
of these developments:
“[…] it will be only a few more days now before I relinquish jurisdiction in
connection with refugees and let somebody else have the fun. And it has been a
heavy responsibility – domestic as well as foreign, because there are 5 million
Jews in the country, of whom 4 million are concentrated in and around New
York City. And we have no Arab or Moslem population, but we do have increasingly
important commercial interests – principally oil – in the Moslem
countries. In addition our ally England has hardly any Jewish citizenship but a
very large political interest in the Near East. So our policy is increasingly
based in part – a large part – on a domestic situation, while England’s is
based entirely on a foreign affairs base – and the two are hard to reconcile
[…] it is good news for me […] this ensures me staying out. What they can do
that I have not done I cannot imagine.”
Long miscalculated on the last point, for the WRB eventually did a considerable
amount of Jew relocation, and its acts on behalf of refugees are of great importance
in this book and are discussed in Chapter 7. In the final weeks of the
war, it also aided concentration camp inmates through the Red Cross. 135 As an instrument
of Wise and other Zionists, the WRB also did considerable propagandizing,
136 and its most consequential propaganda achievement was a booklet, German
Extermination Camps: Auschwitz and Birkenau, Executive Office of the
President, Washington, November 1944. The booklet is hereafter referred to as
the WRB report.
The WRB report constituted the formal birth of the “official” thesis of exterminations
via gas chamber at Auschwitz. In it all of the essentials and many of the
details of the later Auschwitz hoax are found. The Nuremberg charges grew out of
the WRB report. There does not seem to have been any particularly strong reaction,
one way or the other, to the WRB report at the time that it was issued. However,
an American journalist, Oswald F. Schuette, wrote a critical letter to Stimson
(one of the signers of the report), but Schuette did not get a satisfactory reply.
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Of course, the WRB report failed to change the opinions of the State Department
people who had scoffed at the extermination propaganda from the very beginning.
In private with DuBois, they were blunt in their opinion of the WRB report:
“Stuff like this has been coming from Bern ever since 1942. […] Don’t forget,
this is a Jew telling about the Jews. […] This is just a campaign by that
Jew Morgenthau and his Jewish assistants.”
The WRB report was said to have been transmitted from Bern to Washington.
The report will be discussed in depth after we have surveyed a key part of the
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Morgenthau Diary, 6-9.
DuBois, 198-199; Red Cross (1947), 20, 23, 59-60; US-WRB (1945), 9-10, 56-61.
US-WRB (1945), 45-56.
Morgenthau Diary, 805-810; Aretz, 366-368.
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