Holocaust Revisionism And its Political Consequences Jürgen Graf, January 2001, in Tehran exile

8. The Jewish policy of the National Socialist government in the light of the wartime documents

Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party, which assumed power in January 1933, was anti-Jewish. The National Socialists regarded the Jewish people as an element of decadence and destruction and the spearhead of international Communism (not only had Marx and most Communist theoreticians been Jewish, but the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was largely lead by Jews). From 1933, Hitler's government adapted numerous laws restricting the rights of the German Jews, so that many of them went into exile. In order to speed up Jewish emigration, the National Socialists closely co-operated with Zionist groups which wanted the Jews to go to Palestine. This National Socialist-Zionist co-operation has been extensively documented by American Jewish writer Edwin Black in The Transfer Agreement (New York/London 1994) and is disputed by nobody. Before 1941, the majority of German and Austrian Jews had emigrated (though only a few of them actually went to Palestine), but there were large numbers of Jews in the countries the Germans had conquered in the first, successful phase of the war. Up to 1941, the German government envisaged implementing the Madagascar plan, which foresaw the resettlement of European Jewry to Madagascar and the creation of a Jewish state on that island, but as the British ruled the seas, this plan could not be carried through.

Mass deportations to the concentration camps started in 1941. The Germans desperately needed labour as most of their own able-bodies men were fighting at the front. Furthermore, the Jews were considered to be a security risk. This was no idle concern, for Jewish historian Arno Lustiger, a former resistance fighter and survivor of several camps, proudly boasted that in France, the Jews represented 15% of all active resistance, yet only 0,6% of the French population was Jewish (Der Spiegel, 7/1993).

In some of the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz and Majdanek, the mortality rate was staggeringly high. While many deaths were caused by insufficient food, bad clothing and harsh treatment, and while there were executions by shooting and hanging, diseases, especially the dreaded pectoral typhus which is carried by lice, were the main cause of the enormously high mortality. The most efficient weapon against lice was the insecticide Zyklon-B, but the quantities available were never sufficient. Far from being used to kill people, Zyklon-B was used to save them, and as Robert Faurisson aptly states, fewer prisoners would have died if the Germans had had more Zyklon-B. (The holocaust historians do not deny that Zyklon-B was an insecticide used to eradicate lice and other vermin, but they claim it had a double function, serving also as a murder weapon for the killing of Jews at Auschwitz and Majdanek). In Auschwitz, the biggest camp, the typhus epidemic reached its climax between 7 and 11 September 1942 with a daily average of 375 deaths. In January 1943, the average death rate was down to 107 a day, but by March it had risen again to 298 (Jean-Claude Pressac, Les crematoires d'Auschwitz, p. 145).

On December 28, 1942, concentration camp inspector Richard Gluecks wrote in a circular letter to all camp commandants:

"The senior doctors of the camps must use all means at their disposal to achieve a massive reduction of the mortality figures in every camp. (...) More than ever, the doctors have to ensure that the prisoners are adequately fed, and together with the camp administration, they have to submit the necessary suggestions for improvement. (...) The Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler] has ordered the mortality rate to be reduced at all costs." (Nuremberg document NO-1523). As a result of this order, the mortality rate sank by almost 80% by August, 1943 (Nuremberg document PS-1469). - On 26 October 1943, Oswald Pohl, head of the SS main office of economic administration, stated in a circular letter to the commandants of all 19 concentration camps:

"In earlier years, when the emphasis was on re-eduction, it did not matter if a detainee performed any useful work or not. But now, the labour of the prisoners is of paramount importance, and all efforts of the camp commandants, the direction of the administrative service and the doctors must serve the purpose to keep the prisoners in good health and able to work. Not for sentimental reasons, but because we need them with their arms and there legs, so that the German people may win a great victory, we have to take care of the health of the prisoners." (Archiwum Muzeum Stutthof, 1-1b-8, p. 53.)

Such documents prove beyond doubt that, far from intending to exterminate their prisoners, the Germans wanted to keep them alive, because they were needed as labourers. (As we will see later, this does not mean that those who were temporarily or permanently unable to work were murdered.)

Several German wartime documents refer to the "Aussiedlung" (evacuation) or "Umsiedlung" (relocation) of the Jews in the east. Thus, on August 21, 1942, Martin Luther, an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affair, wrote in a memorandum about the Jewish policy of the Reich:

"The principle of the German Jewish Policy after the assumption of power [by the National Socialists] was to promote Jewish emigration by all means. (...) The present war gives Germany the possibility and also the duty to solve the Jewish question in Europe. (...) The evacuation of the Jews from Germany began on the basis of the mentioned leader directive. [A Hitler order to evacuate the Jews.] It was logical to include immediately the Jewish citizens of the countries which had also adporte anti-Jewish measures. (...) But still, the number of Jews deported in this way to the East did not suffice to meet labour needs there." (Nuremberg document NG-2586.)

For decades, the orthodox historians, who are unable to produce even one document proving a German extermination policy, arbitrarily claimed that "relocation" and "evacuation" were code-words for "extermination", and some of them continue to repeat this nonsense even today. The expression Endloesung der Judenfrage ("Final solution of the Jewish question") is also interpreted as a camouflage-term for extermination, although several documents explicitly state that this "final solution" meant the evacuation or emigration of all Jews from the German sphere of influence. But in 1993, Jean-Claude Pressac, who believes in the gas chamber story, conceded in Les Crematoires d'Auschwitz that the coded language was a myth, and in 1996, anti-revisionist French historian Jacques Baynac honestly admitted that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of homicidal gas chambers (Le Nouveau Quotidien, Lausanne/Switzerland, 2 and 3 September, 1996).

In the early ninetieths, the Russians released the Sterbebuecher (death books) from Auschwitz. In these documents, the camp administration had meticulously recorded 66.000 death cases which had occurred at Auschwitz between mid-1941 and late 1943. Each page contained the name, date and place of birth, nationality, religion as well as the date and cause of death of a deceased prisoner. (As the death books present many gaps, and as the ones from 1944 are missing, the documentation is incomplete). The exterminationists are terribly embarrassed by these death books, as they are unable to explain why the Germans, who are supposed to have gassed up to one million Jews at Auschwitz without caring to register them, took such great pains to document every case of natural death at the camp.

In 1995, Carlo Mattogno and I visited the Russian archives where 88.000 pages of German documents emanating from the Auschwitz Zentralbauleitung (Central building administration) are being kept. These documents were made accessible to researchers in the early ninetieth. The Zentralbauleitung was responsible for the construction of the Auschwitz crematoria which, according to the holocaust story, contained homicidal gas chambers. (As a matter of fact, these "gas chambers" were just ordinary morgues where the bodies of deceased prisoners were stored prior to cremation.) Predictably, we did not find any documents corroborating the gas chamber and extermination story, for if they existed, the Soviets would triumphantly have produced them already in 1945 to prove the bestiality of the German National Socialist regime.

Not only do the documents of the camp administration not confirm the Jewish extermination story, they directly contradict it. For example, records kept at the Auschwitz museum show that 15.706 mostly Jewish prisoners received medical care at Monowitz (a sub-camp of Auschwitz) between July 1942 and June 1944. 766 of them died, the remaining ones were released from hospital (Panstwowe Muzeum w Oswiecimiu, Syg. D AuI-III-5/1, 5/2 5/3). Now, how does this fact square with an extermination policy? The myth that the unemployable were murdered is also refuted by the documents. One example may suffice to prove this. When doing research in Moscow in April/May 2000, Mattogno and I found a German-language report written under the auspices of the Russians in early 1945, just after the liberation of Auschwitz, by four Jewish doctors (Lebovits, Bloch, Reich and Weil) who had practised their profession in the camp hospital. The report contains the names of more that a thousand almost exclusively Jewish patients whom the German had left behind before evacuating the camp. Among them were 97 boys and 83 girls between one and fifteen years. (Gosudarstvenny Archiv Rossiskoi Federatsii, Moscow, document 7021-108-23). They had been deported to Auschwitz with their parents in order to avoid the separation of families. If the holocaust story were true, all of them would have been murdered long before 1945. After all, they were unable to work.