Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
these.
I go further, and I say quite frankly that if I could I would wipe Germany
off the map.
They are an evil race and have been a curse in Europe for centuries.
There can be no peace until Hitler and all those who believe in him are
sent to hell which is their place of origin and their final home.”
The Herald remarked that Whipp “has aroused considerable local controversy,”
so it is evident that in Britain, as in the U.S., there were many people who
kept their heads despite the Fadiman types.
The peculiar ad hoc philosophy of history enunciated by de Sales and promoted
by Clifton Fadiman also made its apparently independent appearance in
England. An article by Reginald Hargreaves in the June 1941 issue of the respected
journal National Review (not to be confused with the National Review
that was founded in the U.S. in 1955) proposed as a war aim (as distinct from an
unavoidable consequence of the war) that “at least three million Nazi soldiers (be)
put permanently out of action,” it being:
“[…] an absolutely vital prerequisite to the laying down of arms that a sufficient
number of the present-day corrupted, brutalized and delirious young
dervishes of Nazidom should be left dead upon the field.”
The necessity for this arose from the consideration that:
“[…] throughout her whole history Germany has shown herself as utterly
uncivilized and worthy of nothing but detestation and disgust. From the very
beginning the behavior of the Teutonic peoples had qualified them for the role
of pariahs – the outcast mad dogs of Europe. […] Our real war aim must be,
not only military triumph in the field, but the reduction of the German people
to such a shrunken and delimited condition that never again will they be in
such a position to ‘start anything’ to the detriment of generations yet to come.
Our conflict, despite mushy affirmations to the contrary, is with the German
people; a race so savage, so predatory, so unscrupulous and so utterly uncivilized
that their elimination as a major power is the only hope for a world that
has no choice but to take the surgeon’s knife and cut out this cankerous
growth from its body-politic, thoroughly, relentlessly, once and for all.”
Such declarations seem even more extraordinary when one considers that they
came from a nation noted for understatement.
The point of this discussion is not that there had grown up any consensus in
the U.S. and Britain that all Germans are by nature monsters and should be killed
or at least sterilized. Everybody would agree that no such consensus existed (and
even the extermination mythologists would agree, I think, that no consensus favoring
extermination of the Jews existed in Germany). Moreover, as we all realize,
the genocidal policies advocated or implied by many leaders of opinion in the
U.S. and Britain were not, in their literal form, within the bounds of the possible;
the American and British people would never have permitted such deeds to be
done in their names. The point is that during the heat of wartime the most extraordinary
things were said. For the most part (unfortunately, one can only say for the
most part) such lunacies were not realized in events, but they were expressed nev-
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