Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 3: Washington and New York
have discouraged a thorough study of the propaganda. There have been studies of
special aspects. John T. Flynn, in While You Slept, surveyed the propaganda in respect
to communist and pro-communist influences, especially in regard to Asia.
James J. Martin made a study of the manner, in which the American media treated
the Soviet Union, the negotiated peace question, and the Allied terror bombings
during the war.
It is out of the question to survey all of the atrocity and extermination propaganda
pertaining to the European theater in World War II. Here we may economize
on the magnitude of the survey to be undertaken by noting that we are interested
only in the Jewish extermination question and only in what important people
were doing. We will therefore find that examination of stories concerning alleged
Jewish extermination that appeared in the New York Times, spring 1942 through
1943, together with a summary of 1944 propaganda, which will be presented in
Chapter 5, is all that is required to get a satisfactory conception of the propaganda.
Therefore, we start here with spring 1942 stories.
Concurrent commentary will be made. In many cases there is a story involved
– allegedly originating in Europe – claiming mass killings, and the matters of particular
interest in such cases are the source of the story, the location of the alleged
killings, and the method of killing allegedly employed. It should also be kept in
mind that the post-war extermination legend claims only three varieties of mass
exterminations: gassing at six sites in Poland, “gasmobiles “ in Russia, and mass
shootings in Russia.
“REPORTS NAZI SLAUGHTER OF JEWS
April 6, 1942, p. 2 Kuibyshev, Russia, April 5 (AP) – The Anti-Fascist Jewish
Committee reported today that the Germans have killed 86,000 Jews in and
around Minsk, 25,000 at Odessa and ‘tens of thousands’ in Lithuania, Latvia
and Estonia. In Estonia, the report said, the entire Jewish population numbering
4,500 was wiped out.”
“NAZIS BLAME JEWS FOR BIG BOMBINGS
June 13, 1942 Berlin, June 12 (From German broadcast recorded by the
United Press in New York) – Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said tonight
that Germany would carry out a mass ‘extermination’ of Jews in reprisal
for the Allied air bombings of German cities which, he acknowledged, have
caused heavy damage.
Dr. Goebbels, in an article in the publication The Reich, said the Jews
would be exterminated throughout Europe ‘and perhaps even beyond Europe’
in retaliation against the heavy air assaults.”
Goebbels’ remark was directed against the Jewish controlled press, which he
regarded as largely responsible for the propaganda atmosphere which made the
terror bombings possible. His remark in Das Reich was:
“In this war the Jews are playing their most criminal game, and they will
have to pay for that with the extermination (Ausrottung) of their race in
Europe and perhaps far beyond. They are not to be taken seriously in this conflict,
because they represent neither British nor American, but exclusively Jew-
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