The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry
Arthur R. Butz

Theses & Dissertations Press
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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 Engineering 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 author 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
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ISSN: 1529-7748
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2003 Edition……………………………………………………………………. 8
Acknowledgments ………………………………………………………………………………….. 15
Foreword……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17
A Short Introduction to the Study of Holocaust Revisionism ……………………. 21
Chapter 1: Trials, Jews and Nazis …………………………………………………………… 23
Trials and Doubts………………………………………………………………………………… 23
How Many Jews?………………………………………………………………………………… 27
Our Method, Argument, and Conclusion………………………………………………… 33
The War Crimes Trials…………………………………………………………………………. 34
Chapter 2: The Camps……………………………………………………………………………. 55
Horror Scenes and ‘Extermination’ Camps …………………………………………….. 55
The Camps and Their End ……………………………………………………………………. 57
The Industrial Role of Auschwitz………………………………………………………….. 67
Chapter 3: Washington and New York…………………………………………………….. 73
The Rubber Crisis of 1942……………………………………………………………………. 73
Auschwitz of Great Interest to Americans………………………………………………. 77
The First ‘Extermination’ Claims and Washington…………………………………… 81
The First ‘Extermination’ Claims and New York …………………………………….. 90
German Reactions……………………………………………………………………………… 116
The War Refugee Board Report: Birth of the Auschwitz Legend …………….. 116
Rudolf Vrba ……………………………………………………………………………………… 124
Chapter 4: Auschwitz……………………………………………………………………………. 129
Structure of the Legend ……………………………………………………………………… 129
The Höss ‘Confession’ ………………………………………………………………………. 130
Contradictions at the Outset………………………………………………………………… 133
When Did It Start? …………………………………………………………………………….. 135
The Alleged Gassings and Zyklon……………………………………………………….. 135
Lines of Authority……………………………………………………………………………… 139
Transports to Auschwitz …………………………………………………………………….. 139
A Hospital for the People Being Exterminated?…………………………………….. 141
“Special Treatment”…………………………………………………………………………… 144
The Crematories ……………………………………………………………………………….. 147
Back to the ‘Gas Chambers’ ……………………………………………………………….. 154
Why in English? ……………………………………………………………………………….. 157
The Role of Birkenau ………………………………………………………………………… 157
Summary for Auschwitz …………………………………………………………………….. 165
Chapter 5: The Hungarian Jews……………………………………………………………. 167
The International Red Cross ……………………………………………………………….. 167
1944 Propaganda ………………………………………………………………………………. 183
Where are the pictures? ……………………………………………………………………… 187
Air Raids on Auschwitz: Rudolf Vrba Overreaches Himself …………………… 188
Documentary Evidence?…………………………………………………………………….. 190
The Producers …………………………………………………………………………………… 200
What Happened in Hungary?………………………………………………………………. 210
Can Anybody Believe such a Story?…………………………………………………….. 212
Chapter 6: Et Cetera…………………………………………………………………………….. 215
More ‘Extermination’ Camps ……………………………………………………………… 215
Logic of Defense Testimonies …………………………………………………………….. 218
Josef Kramer, ‘Beast of Belsen’ ………………………………………………………….. 218
Hermann Göring et al. at the IMT ……………………………………………………….. 220
Oswald Pohl at Nuremberg…………………………………………………………………. 225
Adolf Eichmann………………………………………………………………………………… 226
West German Trials …………………………………………………………………………… 229
Precedents for the Trials? …………………………………………………………………… 232
Torture?……………………………………………………………………………………………. 233
Adolf Hitler ……………………………………………………………………………………… 236
Heinrich Himmler……………………………………………………………………………… 237
Joseph Goebbels ……………………………………………………………………………….. 241
The Einsatzgruppen…………………………………………………………………………… 241
Chapter 7: The Final Solution ………………………………………………………………. 251
The German Policy and the Wannsee Conference………………………………….. 251
Numbers Deported: Whence and Whither…………………………………………….. 264
The Polish Ghettos…………………………………………………………………………….. 269
What Happened to Them? ………………………………………………………………….. 271
Zionism Again ………………………………………………………………………………….. 277
Migration to the USA ………………………………………………………………………… 282
Recapitulation…………………………………………………………………………………… 285
J. G. Burg …………………………………………………………………………………………. 286
Conclusions ……………………………………………………………………………………… 287
Himmler Nailed it Perfectly ……………………………………………………………….. 287
Chapter 8: Remarks……………………………………………………………………………… 289
Miscellaneous Objections…………………………………………………………………… 289
Postwar Germany and Willy Brandt …………………………………………………….. 292
The Talmud………………………………………………………………………………………. 294
Credentials……………………………………………………………………………………….. 297
Other Matters……………………………………………………………………………………. 298
Some Implications …………………………………………………………………………….. 299
Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………………… 303
Appendix A: The “Statement” …………………………………………………………….. 303
Appendix B: SS Ranks ………………………………………………………………………. 317
Appendix C: Deportation of Jews………………………………………………………… 319
Appendix D: The Belsen Trial …………………………………………………………….. 325
Appendix E: The Role of the Vatican …………………………………………………… 345

Supplements…………………………………………………………………………………………. 365
Supplement 1: The International Holocaust Controversy………………………… 365
Supplement 2: Context and Perspective in the Holocaust Controversy……… 379
Supplement 3: A Response to a Major Critique of Holocaust
Revisionism………………………………………………………………………………….. 409
Supplement 4: Zyklon B and Gas Detectors in Birkenau Crematorium II …. 431
Supplement 5: Vergasungskeller………………………………………………………….. 443
Illustrations………………………………………………………………………………………….. 449
References……………………………………………………………………………………………. 484
Index……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 492

Foreword to the 2003 Edition
My investigations of the Jewish “Holocaust” commenced in 1972, and twenty seven years have passed since the first publication of this book in 1976 in England as The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Twenty six years have passed since the release of the slightly revised second British and first American edition of 1977. This text consists of the last, preceded by a short article I wrote for the student newspaper at Northwestern University in 19911 and followed by five supplements representing writings from 1979-1997. There is also an addendum to Appendix E (“The Role of the Vatican“), consisting of the obituary/tribute I wrote on Rev. Robert A. Graham. All were published in the Journal of Historical Review. Also Appendix A on Kurt Gerstein, has been revised somewhat. I am proud that this book remains of interest to anybody a quarter century after publication. Nevertheless, the age of this text, and the great advances that have subsequently occurred in Holocaust revisionism, require some comments on the value of the book to today’s reader. How can a quarter century old text not be obsolete today? What does today’s reader gain from it? Would it not be better to revise this text to take into account more recent developments?

From the perspective of today, the book has defects, and several people, of whom I am one, could now do better. In admitting such defects, I can plead that I was one man working with little help. Except for Wilhelm Stäglich, the correspondents I had before publication in 1976 were not then, and have not subsequently become, significant in revisionist work. The literature of revisionist orientation was scanty. Some of it was rubbish that constituted a minor nuisance. On the positive side were Paul Rassinier, Thies Christophersen, and Wilhelm Stäglich. At that time the writings of Rassinier, a former political prisoner at Buchenwald, were of interest both as a primary source, relating personal experiences, and as historical exposition (today Rassinier is of interest only as a primary source). Christophersen and Stäglich, Germans who had been stationed near Auschwitz,
were of value only as primary sources, although Stäglich later wrote a book of historical exposition. Even taking these three into account, the historical complex was not there, as I shall explain below. A common complaint about this work has been that I am not a trained historian or history professor. It is, however, not unusual for people who are not academic historians to make contributions to history. The great American historian Francis Parkman was no history professor; he had only a brief academic appointment as Professor of Horticulture at Harvard. The late Arnaldo Momigliano urged wariness of academic historians and pointed out that none of the three leading nineteenth century historians of the ancient world was a history professor, e.g. Mommsen was a Professor of Law….

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