THE HOAX OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE CASE AGAINST THE PRESUMED EXTERMINATION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY The Hoax of the Twentieth Century The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry Arthur R. Butz Theses & Dissertations Press PO Box 257768, Chicago, Illinois 60625 September 2003 The Author Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engi- neering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota in 1965. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he is now Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dr. Butz is the au- thor of numerous technical papers. HOLOCAUST Handbook Series, vol. 7: Arthur R. Butz: The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry 3rd edition. Chicago (Illinois): Theses & Dissertations Press, Imprint of Castle Hill Publishers, September 2003 ISBN: 0-9679856-9-2 ISSN: 1529-7748 © by Arthur R. Butz 1976, 2003 Distribution Australia/Asia: Peace Books, PO Box 3300, Norwood, 5067, Australia Distribution Rest of World: Castle Hill Publishers UK: PO Box 118, Hastings TN34 3ZQ USA: PO Box 257768, Chicago, IL 60625 Set in Times New Roman. Table of Contents Page Foreword to the 2003 Edition .........................................................................8 Acknowledgments..........................................................................................17 Foreword ........................................................................................................19 A Short Introduction to the Study of Holocaust Revisionism....................23 Chapter 1: Trials, Jews and Nazis................................................................27 Trials and Doubts........................................................................................27 How Many Jews? .......................................................................................32 Our Method, Argument, and Conclusion....................................................38 The War Crimes Trials................................................................................39 Chapter 2: The Camps ..................................................................................61 Horror Scenes and ‘Extermination’ Camps ................................................61 The Camps and Their End..........................................................................63 The Industrial Role of Auschwitz...............................................................75 Chapter 3: Washington and New York ........................................................81 The Rubber Crisis of 1942 .........................................................................81 Auschwitz of Great Interest to Americans..................................................85 The First ‘Extermination’ Claims and Washington ....................................89 The First ‘Extermination’ Claims and New York .....................................100 German Reactions ....................................................................................128 The War Refugee Board Report: Birth of the Auschwitz Legend ............129 Rudolf Vrba ..............................................................................................138 Chapter 4: Auschwitz ..................................................................................143 Structure of the Legend ............................................................................143 The Höss ‘Confession’ .............................................................................144 Contradictions at the Outset .....................................................................148 When Did It Start?....................................................................................149 The Alleged Gassings and Zyklon............................................................150 Lines of Authority.....................................................................................154 Transports to Auschwitz ...........................................................................155 A Hospital for the People Being Exterminated?.......................................157 “Special Treatment”..................................................................................160 5 Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century The Crematories .......................................................................................163 Back to the ‘Gas Chambers’.....................................................................171 Why in English? .......................................................................................174 The Role of Birkenau ...............................................................................175 Summary for Auschwitz...........................................................................183 Chapter 5: The Hungarian Jews ................................................................185 The International Red Cross.....................................................................185 1944 Propaganda ......................................................................................202 Where are the pictures? ............................................................................207 Air raids on Auschwitz: Rudolf Vrba overreaches himself ......................208 Documentary evidence? ...........................................................................210 The Producers...........................................................................................221 What Happened in Hungary? ...................................................................233 Can Anybody Believe Such a Story?........................................................235 Chapter 6: Et Cetera ...................................................................................237 More ‘Extermination’ Camps ...................................................................237 Logic of Defense Testimonies ..................................................................240 Josef Kramer, ‘Beast of Belsen’ ...............................................................240 Hermann Göring, et. al. at the IMT ..........................................................242 Oswald Pohl at Nuremberg.......................................................................248 Adolf Eichmann .......................................................................................249 West German Trials ..................................................................................253 Precedents for the Trials? .........................................................................256 Torture?.....................................................................................................257 Adolf Hitler ..............................................................................................260 Heinrich Himmler,....................................................................................262 Joseph Goebbels .......................................................................................265 The Einsatzgruppen..................................................................................266 Chapter 7: The Final Solution ....................................................................277 The German Policy and the Wannsee Conference....................................277 Numbers Deported: Whence and Whither................................................292 The Polish Ghettos ...................................................................................297 What Happened to Them? ........................................................................299 Zionism Again ..........................................................................................305 Migration to the USA ...............................................................................312 6 Table of Contents Recapitulation...........................................................................................315 J. 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Burg ..................................................................................................315 Conclusions ..............................................................................................316 Himmler Nailed it Perfectly .....................................................................317 Chapter 8: Remarks ....................................................................................319 Miscellaneous Objections.........................................................................319 Postwar Germany and Willy Brandt.........................................................322 The Talmud...............................................................................................325 Credentials................................................................................................327 Other Matters............................................................................................329 Some Implications....................................................................................330 Appendices ...................................................................................................333 Appendix A: The “Statement”..................................................................333 Appendix B: SS Ranks .............................................................................347 Appendix C: Deportation of Jews ............................................................349 Appendix D: