At the Nuremburg trials a much larger figure was attempted to be foisted upon the proceedings but they were forced to reduce the figure to a more acceptable figure of 6 million.
Why has there been so little mention of the killing of Russian prisoners?
Why has there been so little mention of the British and US atrocities?
What happened before the end of the war is another matter but the article below needs serious consideration.
'NO HOLOCAUST' THEORY STARTS MAJOR STORM
By John Jost, National Times, 10 February 1979
Major confusion and outrage has broken out within the Jewish community over
a memo issued by John Bennett, secretary of the Victorian Council for Civil
Liberties, which suggests that Hitler's 'Jewish Holocaust'
might never have
occurred.
The Holocaust memo, which the National Times publishes in full below, was
sent to several Melbourne academics with copies of the book The Hoax of the
Twentieth Century, by US writer A R Butz.
Butz's work argues that while the Germans killed many Jews through
maltreatment, there is no hard evidence that they actually indulged in a
deliberate policy of extermination which involved the deaths of up to six
million Jews. The Bennett memo in full:
"Having read most of the books claiming that six million Jews were
deliberately exterminated by the Nazis, mainly in gas chambers, especially
at Auschwitz (e.g. Hilberg: The Destruction of European Jews; Reitlinger:
The Final Solution) I note:
1. No one has ever been charged with the murder of any of the two million,
four million, six million? People gassed. That is, no one has ever been
charged with actually dropping the Zyklon B.
2. No photo exists of any bodies in any gas chamber although there is
alleged to have been over ten thousand separate gassings in various camps.
3. The 'gas chambers' at Auschwitz cannot be inspected since, according to
Reitlinger, who gives the only explanation of their fate, they were
dismantled, transported to another camp, and 'went into oblivion'.
4. The main evidence of 'gassing' given at Nuremberg are the affidavits of
Höss and Gerstein, which are as unreliable as statements of the Moscow
purge trials in 1936.
5. The Vatican, the Red Cross, English intelligence, German intelligence
(e.g. Canaris and Oster, who were also English agents) and the German
resistance to Hitler ( a sort of who's who of German society) did not know
of or did not believe rumours of gassings.
6. Nobody has tried to rebut the argument of Butz.
7. There is no reference to the gassings in any of the captured German
documents: the Allies held warehouses of Nazi documents and films but had to
rely on the Höss 'confession'.
8. it was claimed in March 1943 that two million Jews had been killed and
another four million would be cited, a curious accurate predictor of the six
million figure used at Nuremberg.
9. Photos usually used by the Allies to prove gassings are photos of bodies
of people at Dachau or Belsen who had died of typhus or malnutrition.
10. Zyklon B was used by the German armed forces and in all concentration
camps, as a disinfectant, especially to combat typhus. It was standard
procedure in all camps for new arrivals to bathe and have their clothes
disinfected. Many people died in the camps and were cremated to prevent
epidemics.
11. The Auschwitz camp was not bombed by the Allies because they did not
believe it was an extermination camp. The Allies had the huge industrial
complex under close surveillance because it was a centre of the most
advanced synthetic rubber process. The US was in need of synthetic rubber
after Perl Harbour.
12. It is impossible to estimate the number of Jews who died as a result of
Nazi policies since the World Jewish Congress has refused to hold any
post-war census of Jews. Probably 700,000 to 1.5 million Jews died as a
result of mistreatment, malnutrition, typhus, razing of ghettoes, reprisals,
arbitrary killings and medical 'experiments'.
13. People such as Simon Wiesenthal (The Murderers among us) have tried to
track down people responsible for the final solution by evacuation to the
east (e.g. Eichmann) and Nazi doctors (Mengele) but have not tried to track
down members of the SS who actually murdered two to six million by gassing,
especially by Zyklon B at Auschwitz.
It is probable that estimates of 2.5 million killed in Cambodia (e.g.
estimate by George McGovern), 20 million people killed in the Great Terror
in Russia, 500,000 killed in Uganda, etc. are as unreliable as the 'six
million' Jews murdered by the Nazis 'legend'.
It took 30 years for 'the last secret' - the forced repatriation of over a
million people to Russia - to become generally known. It will probably take
some time for the Butz thesis to be objectively examined.
In the Middle Ages people who queried the existence of God or that the earth
was flat were persecuted and often killed. People who query the six million
murdered legend will often be accused of being pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic.
However, even among the main writers on the legend (who are all Jewish) the
six million figure is often disputed. Thus Reitlinger has revived his
estimate of deaths down to four million. He was motivated by a search for
accuracy and not anti-Semitism in revising his figures.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Age, 15 March 1979
Questions about the Holocaust numbers
From Mr J Bennett
Mr Michael Barnard, 3 March, in an article headed 'Remember the Holocaust?'
refers to a hand-written memo I sent to three friends setting out my
tentative conclusions about the thesis advanced by Professor Butz in his
book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.
This thesis was that although about one million Jews died as a result of the
Nazi policy of final solution by evacuation to the east, there was no policy
to exterminate Jews and there were no mass gassings. One of the three memos
was leaked without the consent or knowledge of the recipient, to the
National Times.
Mr Barnard mentions that one issue I raised was the failure to ascertain the
identity of the actual gas murderers, that is, the people who actually
dropped the Zyklon B. That was one of only 13 issues I raised. I have since
done further research and I have raised many other issues in a draft article
setting out my tentative conclusions.
I intend sending the draft article to the six lecturers in modern European
history who are invited to comment on the Butz book last year. Only one did
so, relying heavily on the questionable 'confessions' brought into being for
the Nuremberg trial. Butz regards the trials as a travesty of justice,
organized by the Allies who were responsible for war atrocities themselves,
such as Hiroshima, Dresden, Katyn Forrest, 'victims of Yalta' and the policy
of 'unconditional surrender'. President Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
commended Robert Taft for his courage in publicly opposing the trials.
Mr Barnard referred to a German editor who in 1979 said: "Yes, I knew all
about it", i.e. the extermination program. However, Hoffmann, German
Resistance to Hitler, indicates that the German resistance, a sort of 'who's
who' of German society, did not know in 1944 of the extermination policy of
the gassings.
Helmut Diewald, a prominent West German historian, stated this year that
'central questions' in relation to the final solution by evacuation to the
east remain 'unresolved'. He also points out that the crematoria at
Auschwitz were built because of a massive typhus epidemic at the camp in
1942 in which 20, 000 people died. Butz argues that most deaths in the camps
were due to malnutrition partly due to the chaos caused by saturation
civilian bombing, and due to typhus which spread because of a failure to use
the disinfectant Zyklon B on a more regular basis.
The reason there had not been a great outcry against the Butz thesis could
be because it is difficult to refute. Truth is the first casualty in war.
Incredible allegations were made against the Germans in World War One but
were ultimately withdrawn (Ponsonby: Falsehood in Wartime).
Allegations that about one million people were murdered in Cambodia were
often reported in the media without any supporting evidence but have now
been abandoned.
It is very easy to spread atrocity stories. The basic requirement in
evaluating them is common sense. I invite anyone wishing to contradict my
tentative conclusion on the Butz thesis to write to me. I also invite anyone
to substantiate the allegations of mass genocide in Cambodia.
John Bennett, 122 Canning Street, Carlton 3053.
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