Col. John Beaty’s The Iron Curtain Over America. On pages 134-135 of this book Col. Beaty traces the demographic data on Jewish populations before and after the war and raises the question as "where Hitler got the 6,000,000 Jews he said to have killed."
55. What was Col. Beaty in a peculiarly good position to express opinions on this question?
He was in high-level military intelligence positions for five years, including those involving the of intelligence reports derived from a great variety of sources. His book was recommended by General George Stratemeyer and others.
56. What conclusions did Prof. Arthur Butz reach about the extent of Jewish mortality during World War II after extensive Investigations Lasting for years?
Prof. Butz has stated that "about 350,000 or perhaps 400.000 inmates died in the German camps during the war, some minority of that number being Jews." He further stated that the total Jewish mortality from all causes is not known. It is quite possible that the number of anti-Communists who died as a result of " Operation Keelhaul," which is the name often applied to the handing over of such groups as the anti-Communist forces assembled by General Vlassov(1901-1946) to Communist authorities by Americans and British. Although nearly every adult American has heard of the plight of the Jews during the war and is familiar with their meaning of the word would know what "Operation Keelhaul" means. After all, its victims were just anti-Communist Gentiles. Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol I, no. 1,pp7 and 22.
57. What did the international Red Cross have to report with regard to the "holocaust" question?
A report on the visit of an International Red Cross delegate to Auschwitz in September 194, pointed out that internees were permitted to receive packages and that rumours of gas chambers could not be verified.
Reference: Thies Christophersen, Auschwitz, 1979, p11. (Christophersen was stationed as an experimental agronomist at Auschwitz from January to December, 1944.) An earlier, German edition of this booklet also exists. Christophersen reproduces a sample of the French text of Camps de Concentration 1939-1945. See also A. Butz, Hoax of the Twentieth Century, where various Red Cross reports are discussed in detail in various places. Myth of the Six Million, pp98 ff.
58. What statistics do earlier editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and its annual supplements provide pertaining to Jewish population before and after the war?
These references by no means confirm the widely publicized claims of a mortality of six million Jews. On page 63B, Vol, 13 of the 1945 edition, Jacob R. Marcus, PhD, Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, stated: "From 1931 to 1941, 580, 207 immigrant aliens were admitted to the United States; of these 161,262 were Jews. Inasmuch as about 4,000,000 Jews were continuously suffering under reactionary European governments at the time, this small number of emigrants into the United States over a period of eleven years did little to alleviate their miserable condition. "The Britannica Book of the Year 1946, page 417, stated that 1,500,000 Jews remained in Europe outside of the USSR. As to the number of Polish Jews who survived the war, there were some 200,000 who had moved to central Europe alone by late summer of 1946 according to Britannica Book of the Year 1947, pages 654-655.
59. What did the German government do when German intelligence learned in early 1943 about the mass graves of Polish officers in territory which had been held by Soviet forces at the time of their deaths?
In April 1943, German intelligence learned of mass graves in a forest near Katyn, a locality nearly 400 miles almost due south of St.. Petersburg (present Communist name: Leningrad). Further investigation, including exhumation of the bodies, ascertained the presence of 4,143 bodies of Polish officers who had been captured during the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. There was clever evidence, fro example the age of the trees growing over the graves, that the officers had been murdered by shots through the neck around May 1940, long before the German invasion of Russia. (It has been subsequently ascertained that the total number of Polish officers murdered in various places by the Communists was approximately 15,000.) Immediately the German radio announced reports of the mass graves and summoned many forensic experts, journalists and even prisoners of war from various countries, neutral and belligerent, to witness the gruesome sight. In 1943, too, an official German report was published, Amtliches Material zum Massenmord von Katyn. Obviously, the Germans felt it would be to their advantage to inform the world as best they could about their discovery and about all of the evidence pertaining to the time and circumstances of the murders. Incidently, the Katyn affair had far-reaching subsequent results: The Soviet government broke off diplomatic relations with the Polish government in exile and President Roosevelt played a cynical role in suppressing the evidence against the USSR. References: Louis Fitz Gibbon, Katyn, Torrence, Noontide Press, 1979. Journal of Historical Review, Vol. I, no. 1, pp31-42.
60. If Auschwitz had, in fact, been an extermination camp, why would that fact and the evidence for it have been spread throughout the world after January 1945?
When the Soviet forces captured the terrain of the Auschwitz camps and industrial complex in late January 1945, the war was by no means over and the propaganda value of disseminating evidence of extermination activities (which the Germans had attempted to exploit correspondingly in the case of Katyn) would have been of immense value to the USSR in various ways, such as countering the German claims about Katyn and in the diplomatic negotiations toward the end of the war. The Soviet government, however, made no efforts corresponding to the German efforts in the case of Katyn. Quite to the contrary, they did not permit western officials to view the Auschwitz terrain. They evidently had nothing worth showing. Reference: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Mythos, pp5 ff.
61. What former American official in occupied Germany had the courage to write a letter which appeared in The Sunday Visitor and which was reprinted in an article entitled, "Jewish Population in the United States," in the October 1959, issue of American Mercury?
Mr. Stephen Pinter. In his letter Mr. Pinter stated that he had been in Dachau for 17 months after the war as a U.S. War Department Attorney. He pointed out that there was no gas chamber at Dachau nor was there a gas chamber in any other of the concentration camps in Germany. He further stated: " We were told that there was a gas chamber at Auschwitz, but since that was in the Russian zone of occupation, we were not permitted to investigate, since the Russians would not permit it. ...From what I was able to determine during six postwar years in Germany and Austria, there were a number of Jews killed, but the figure of a million was certainly never reached. I interviewed thousands of Jews, former inmates of concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and consider myself as well qualified as any man on this subject."
62. When were exhibits at Auschwitz open to the public and what benefits does the "Polish" government derive from them?
Some German and Austrian prisoners of war were interned temporarily at Auschwitz just after the war, but they reported nothing that would confirm large-scale extermination activities there. For years the Soviet authorities would not allow visitors to the terrain. However, for some years now a museum has been open to the public at Auschwitz which not only brings profits from tourism in Poland but has the added advantages of aiding in the usual Soviet propaganda objectives, such as obliteration by contrast of Soviet war crimes. References: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Mythos, p9. At the end of this book there are pictures of the Auschwitz terrain after the war and of the exhibits at the museum.
63. What do photographs of liberated internees at Auschwitz show?
At the end of W. Staglich’s Der Auschwitz Mythos there is a valuable pictorial section. Four of the pictures show liberated internees at Auschwitz. Amongst them are old women and children, who would, of course, have been the least likely persons to have been spared if a general extermination program had been extant. They do not appear to have been badly nourished. Also, at the very end of The Holocaust, published by Ya Vashem in Jerusalem in 1977, there is a picture of children who had been liberated from the camp. They, too, do not seem badly nourished. The validity of Staglich’s pictures is thus confirmed by a Zionist source. Auschwitz, being far to the east, was probably better supplied than camps to the west, where Allied bombing severely hampered transportation.
64. What has an article by the historian Gitta Sereny admitted about all of the concentration camps which were captured intact by the Allied forces?
In an article by her in the New Statesman of 17 July 1981, there is a caption under a picture showing SS guards being made to bury emaciated corpses after the liberation of Belsen. The caption points out that all (alleged) extermination camps "were totally destroyed before any Allied armies necessary to repeat what has already been stated with detail in these pages (New Statesman, 2 November 1979): that terrible disservice has been done by those exaggerated, carelessly misunderstood, or even invented Holocaust events."
In view of such concessions by a resolute and well-known adherent of the Extermination Thesis, one must ask himself if any part of Thesis is valid, especially in view of the large number of aspects of the "Holocaust" material which had been supported by heaps of testimony in and out of courts and which has now been proved to be false.
65. Has any documentary evidence ever been discovered that Hitler specifically ordered the extermination of Jews within the territory held by his armed forces?
No. Even the Zionist historians concede (or perhaps "claim" would be the more appropriate word) that no such documentation has ever been found. Reference: The Holocaust, Jerusalem, Ya Vashem, 1977, p49.
66. If Hitler had ever given such an order, why would it have become widely known and reported?
Many people would have had an interest in doing so. If such an order could be documented, whatever German guilt existed in this area could be directed at Hitler alone. Such an order would have a tendency to act as a legal exoneration since accused persons could justly claim that they were simply obeying military commands under the threat of death penalties.
67. What do aerial photographs of Auschwitz taken in 1944 by the U.S. Air Force demonstrate?
Aerial photographs of the Auschwitz-Birkenau area taken by the Allies on 4 April, 26 July, 25 August and 13 September of that year tend to discredit the claims that Auschwitz was an extermination complex because there is no smoke form crematories or the like, although the photographs are quite clear and detailed and cover a large area. If such photographs would have revealed evidence of mass extermination of internees at the time, Allied air forces could have bombed the railway facilities leading to the camp and other facilities involved in such extermination. The photographs were published by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1979. Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol I, p18 and Vol. III, pp44-45. Historische Tatsachen Nr. 9, pp37-39, where some of the photographs are reproduced and discussed.
68. What economic and other disadvantages would Germans have suffered if it had carried out an extermination program against Jews during the Second World War?
By December 1941, Germany was faced with a two-front war in which the odds were overwhelmingly against Germany. German commanders and statesman were very well aware of these odds even if they did not dare say so publicly, at least not until 20 July 1944. Various Allied declarations after 1941 precluded any compromises and negotiations. There were also threats of postwar trials of German statesman and military commanders. Such circumstances had an inhabiting effect against the commission of war crimes on the part of the Germans, who knew well that they were likely to be subjected to punishment by a victorious, vindictive enemy if found guilty. However, the war had a tragic momentum of its own and all prisoners and internees could be used for various tasks, such as the manufacture and repair of uniforms. For what ever reason moral, self-protective or economic Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) is known to have given an order on 28 December 1942, to reduce mortality in the concentration camps "at any price." Since 16 February 1942, all concentration camps had been integrated into the war economy and armament industry as a result of labour shortages. Reference: Hellmut Diwald, Geschichte der Deutschen, 1978, p165.
69. To what extent did Germany and its allies have a widely recognized right to execute some Jews?
One ugly aspect of war is especially important where Communists are involved. That is guerrilla or partisan warfare, in which various acts of sabotage and murder are committed by persons who are not wearing uniforms. Communists were especially successful at conducting this sort of action during the Spanish Civil War, in China during the 1940's and in Russia during 1941 ff. (The word "guerrilla" originated from Spain during the Napoleonic wars.) Modern warfare, with its use of railways, trucks, tanks and complicated weapons, is such that sabotage by guerrillas can be especially effective. The thinly spread German forces in Russia were out at a severe disadvantage by this type of action. As much as one-tenth of their forces were engaged in countermeasures and their losses form guerrilla warfare have been estimated at as much as a quarter of a million men or more. Many of the guerrillas were Jewish. On the basis of Hague rules of land warfare adopted in 1899 and 1907, guerrilla warfare is condemned as illegal, and the right to execute apprehended guerrillas is widely recognized. A field commander who does not deal harshly with guerrillas would not be fulfilling his duty toward the men in his command. Guerrilla warfare undoubtedly accounted for a large amount of Jewish mortality during the Second World War. Reference: Article by Robert B. Aspley on guerrilla warfare in 1970 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Holocaust, published by ya Vashem in Jerusalem, pp72-73. W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Mythos, pp113, 399-400. For a valuable discussion of the activities of the largely Jewish Soviet political commissars in this connection, see The Liberty Bell, December, 1982, pp12-13.
70. What are the alleged minutes of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, often cited in attempts to substantiate the Extermination Thesis?
Lacking of documentation of an extermination order from Hitler himself, proponents of the Extermination Thesis frequently cite the minutes of a conference which is alleged to have taken piece at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin, on 20 January 1942. On page 7 of the minutes is the proposal that Jews were to be organized into large labour columns and were to be led into designated areas while building roads ("strassenbauend"), which time a large number would be eliminated by natural reduction of numbers ("durch natuerliche Verminderung").
71. What evidence exists that these minutes are a forgery, at least in part?
There is a great deal of evidence that this document is a forgery, no matter to what extent it would be incriminating, even if it were genuine. The figures on Jewish populations in various European countries seem to be grossly inaccurate. The estimate of the number of Jews in France, for example, is put at 865,000, while reliable estimate of the Jewish population of France around the year 1930 were only about 150,000. This point is even to be found in Zionist sources. On page 49 of The Holocaust (published by Ya Vashem in 1977) the figures on Jewish populations are reproduced from the document, but on page 55 the statement is made that there "were approximately 300,000 Jews in France before the war, most of them inhabitants of long standing." The proposal for the "stassenbauend" movements of labour columns seems very improbable. The document is headed "Geheime Reichssache" (secret), but there follows the note that 30 copies were to be prepared. There is no signature of the person responsible fro keeping the minutes, no date and no indication of the office in which it was prepared. Reference: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Myhtos, pp38-65, where the document is reproduced and the evidence against its authenticity is discussed in detail.
72. What absurd claim did a famous German novelist broadcast on 27 September 1942, with regard to the killing of Jews?
Thomas Mann (1875-1955; Nobel Prize for Literature (1929) broadcast the report that 16,000 french Jews were killed by gas in a railroad train on an open stretch of track after the train had been hermetically sealed. How a whole train, presumably with about 80 to 100 cars or more, could be sealed hermetically on an open stretch of track is difficult to imagine. It is a shame that Mann lent his name to the dissemination of such anti-German propaganda. Reference: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Myhtos, p150.
73. What numismatic evidence has a bearing on the Extermination Thesis?
Numerous types of monetary instruments, both paper notes and coins, were issued for use in ghettos and concentration and labour camps. If an immediate extermination of persons brought to the camps had been planned there would obviously have been no use for such instruments. Especially elaborately printed notes were issued for Lodz, Theresienstadt (dated 1943) and Oranienburg. Notes for Westerbork (Netherlands) were dated 1944. Aluminum coins dated 1943 were struck for Lodz (Litzmannstadt). Reference: The Numismatist (published by the American Numismatic Association) April, 1981, pp875-881; April, 1982, pp896-905 and 933-935.
74. What evidence is there that few Americans took the position of the Jews in Europe seriously as late as December 1941?
Various items had appeared in America newspapers about the status of European Jews. The New York Times of 28 February 1941, for example, carried an item on the planned transfer to Poland of Viennese Jews who could not afford to emigrate. It was explained that their emigration was "purely a question of money." Right down to the beginning of formal American involvement in the war public opinion polls revealed that the vast majority of Americans, probably about 5/6 of them, wanted to stay out of the European war. Even well into 1944, when Allied reconnaissance air planes were able to fly over Auschwitz in eastern Europe and take clear photographs there was apparently no conviction in official quarters that Auschwitz was an extermination camp. If such an opinion would have existed, rail connections either could have been bombed.
75. What was the role of the Vatican with regard to the plight of European Jews during the Second World War?
If there would have been an extermination plan, the Vatican would certainly have been in a position to know about it through information passed along through members of its hierarchy throughout Europe. Pius XII (1939-1958), however made no protests against a putative extermination program, about which he would certainly not have been indifferent. Zionists have often criticized Pius XII’s "silence" but have lately seemed more conciliatory. Note, for example, the 1983 CBS television film, The Scarlet and the Black. Reference: A. Butz, Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp278-290.
76. What was the attitude of the clergy toward the euthanasia program instituted by Germans after the outbreak of the Second World War?
It is said that National Socialist authorities asked theologians for their views on euthanasia and received varied answers. Later in the war the Catholic clergy publicity protested against the program and it was stopped. To put the euthanasia program in its proper perspective, we must bear in mind that after 3 September 1939, German was faced with the sort of blockade by the grossly superior British navy which had been largely instrumental in causing the defeat of Germany in 1918 by starving the civilian population and by other resultant attrition. Since about 1870 the German population had grown to the extent that domestically produced foodstuffs were simply insufficient to provide a healthy diet for the population. Moreover, nursing personnel was needed for military purposes.
77. Why is it difficult to determine just how many Jews entered the United States as immigrants from Europe during the 1930's and 1940's?
In November 1943, the practice of identifying Jews in the records of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service was stopped. There are actually no official figures on the number of Jews in the United States. Beety suggested that the number of Jews in the United States might be considerably higher than generally realized. Illegal immigration is also a factor which beclouds the data. Reference: A. Butz, Hoax of the Twentieth Century, p226. John Beaty, The Iron Curtain Over America, 1951, pp41-42.
78. For what purposes was the commercial product Zyklon B used in the German armed forces?
This disinfectant was delivered in crystalline form and contained hydrocyanic acid as an active ingredient. It was used in the Reichswehr as early as 1942 for fumigating clothing, quarters and effects, but it could be used only by well-trained personnel. Reference W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Myhtos, p78
79. What technical difficulties would have been involved in the use of this product if, as has been claimed in many Zionist materials on the "Holocaust" it had been widely used for massive exterminations of interned Jews?
After the use of Zyklon B a period of about 20 hours is needed to air out the space in which it was used, since it has the characteristic of adhering to objects. Only specially trained personnel were to use the highly dangerous material, as was stated on the labels on the cans. Hydrocyanic acid has been used for executions in the United States but elaborate preparations and equipment are needed for this purpose. The door of the disinfection chamber at Dachau was clearly marked with a caution sign and a skull and crossbones to prevent accidents. References: A. Butz, Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp191 and 218 (pictures). Journal of Historical Review, Vol. I, pp23-50 and 103-114:; Vol. II, no. 4, pp311-317.
80. A Rumanian historian has published statistics on the deaths of Rumanian Jews from all causes during the Second World War. What were his findings?
Dr. Serban Andronescu found that only some 250,000 Jews resided in Rumania during the Second World War, and that some 15,000 of them lost their lives from all causes during this time. (In comparing this with power statistics, we must bear in mind that Transylvania was given to Hungary in 1940.) Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol. III, no 2, pp211-223. See also the clarifying remarks by Mart Weber in the Journal of Historical Review, Vol. III, no. 3, pp233-237.
81. How do Dr. Andronescu’s findings compare with corresponding statistics in Zionist propaganda materials on the "Holocaust"?
The Anti-Defamation League has claimed that 300,000 Jews living in Rumania were murdered. Dr. Andronescu’s estimate is thus 5% of the ADL estimate. If this ratio were applied to the six million figure, it would thus result in a Jewish mortality of 300,000 for all of Europe. Reference: The even higher figure of 425,000 for the mortality of Rumanian Jews is to be found on p63 of The Holocaust, Jerusalem, Ya Vashem, 1977.
82. What does a non-Jewish source estimate in the case of the wartime mortality of Jews living in Hungary?
Louis Marschalko estimates the mortality of Jews in Hungary at 60,000. The ADL estimate is 450,000. Reference: L. Marschalko, The World Conquerors, p160.
83. What happened to members of concentration camp administrations who mistreated internees during the war?
Concentration camp personnel were prohibited from arbitrarily punishing or exercising cruelty against the internees. There are quite a number of cases prosecutions by German courts during the war of persons caused of violating such regulations. Heinrich Himmler himself is said to have been keenly aware that excesses against prisoners and internees could be held against him after the war. Reference: W. Staglich, Der Auschwitz Myhtos, pp15 and 415.
84. What parallels can be drawn between the plight of the Jewish internees during World War II and that of war during the American Civil War?
Conditions of prisoners of war camps deteriorated badly during the course of the Civil War. The mortality rates of the prisoners increased considerably as a result of disease and insufficient diet. Conditions in both the Confederate and union camps deteriorated, but especially in the former as a result of the transportation and general economic problems of the Confederacy. During the closing phases of World War II, German rail transport facilities were very badly impaired by Allied bombing, making even the supplying of the armies defending German territory difficult. The Allied bombing of German rail facilities was an important factor in the final collapse of the German armed forces. Reference: Journal of Historical Review, Vol. II, no. 2, pp137-153.
85. What disease caused the death of many persons interned in concentration camps toward the end of World War II?
Typhus, which was a louse-borne and was a frequent concomitant of the hunger, filth and cold from which Europe suffered widely during World War II. (A number of diseases, however, became a greater than usual threat to life as a result of the malnutrition from which nearly all of Europe suffered during the war.) It was due to the highly contagious nature of typhus that crematoria were installed and used extensively fro the disposal of the bodies of the victims of the disease. Cremation was also used extensively in the disposal of bodies of victims of the bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
86. What caused Anne Frank’s death just several weeks before the end of the war?
Anne Frank (born 1929 in Frankfurt am Main) was arrested in Amsterdam along with other members of her family in August, 1944 after her family had been living in hiding for two years. She was sent to Auschwitz and subsequently transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died in March 1945, during a typhus epidemic. Her tragic fate was just one of hundreds and hundreds of thousands which befell Europeans of many nations in the final, chaotic months of a war pursued with the repeatedly declared objective of imposing a Carthagenian peace on the doomed nations. Who, in the final analysis, was responsible for their deaths?
87. What sort of evidence has been found which indicates that not all, if any, of the famous diary attributed to her was written by her?
Prof. Robert Faurisson has undertaken extensive studies of this diary, parts of which was published in the Journal of Historical review, Summer, 1982, pp147-209. He concludes, "the truth obliges me to say that the Diary of Anne Frank is only a simple literary fraud." Prof. Faurisson found that there are incongruities of details in the Diary and the structure of the house in which the family hid, 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, during 1942-1944. On page 209 he reproduces two specimens of handwriting attributed to Anne Frank which were supposedly written only four months apart. One is the sort of handwriting which one would expect of a child, while the other (dated 12 June 1942) has the quite different appearance of an adult’s writing. There are also numerous other details in the Diary which would not fit into the circumstances of a family supposedly living in hiding. There are also striking inconsistencies in the various translated versions. Prof. Arthur Butz (Hoax of the Twentieth Century, p37) also points out the improbability that the child wrote the introductory parts of the Diary, which contain a history of the Frank family and a review of the anti-Jewish measures taken since the beginning of the occupation of the Netherlands in 1940.