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

11. The invisible elephant

In 1976, Arthur Butz, a university professor of electrical engineering, wrote The Hoax of the Twentieth Century which is still a revisionist classic. Butz raised the question whether the Allies, the Vatican and the International Committee of the Red Cross could possible have been unaware for a long time of a mass extermination going on in the countries controlled by Germany. His answer left no room for any doubt: Such a thing was strictly impossible. Several holocaust historians - Martin Gilbert, Walter Lacqueur, David Wyman, Richard Breitman, and others - have asked the same question and given the same answer. Let us resume why mass murders at Auschwitz, which was the biggest German concentration camp and, according to the official holocaust version, the leading extermination centre, could not possibly have remained secret for a long time:

- The two farmhouses said to have served as gas chambers before the four crematoria of Birkenau were put into operation were in the immediate vicinity of the camp; the crematoria were in the camp itself and only surrounded by barbed wire, so that thousands of prisoners would have witnesses the ongoing slaughter every day. (According to the legend, an SS-man climbed on the roof of the "gas chamber" - in reality, a morgue - and dropped Zyklon B pellets through four round openings in the roof into the chamber. As we have already underlined, these four round openings never existed.)

- Auschwitz was a kind archipelago with about forty sub-camps where prisoners were sent whenever they were needed for labour before returning to the main camp. As prisoners and free workers were working side by side, this system guaranteed a constant flow of information all over the large Auschwitz area.

- Even at Birkenau, the alleged epicentre of the holocaust, civil workers were engaged in all kind of activities. No less than twelve companies took part in the construction of the crematoria (Pressac, Les crematoires d'Auschwitz, p. 56).

- Auschwitz was really a big industrial complex where IG-Farben, one of the largest German industrial companies, and as many as 170 other firms had their representatives (Raul Hilberg, Die Vernichtung der europaeischen Juden, Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1997, p. 992 ff.). For the German military industry, Auschwitz was very important as Buna - synthetic rubber, a product needed for producing tyres - was produced at Monowitz in the eastern part of the Auschwitz complex.

- As we have seen earlier, prisoners were constantly transferred from Auschwitz to other camps. Between June and October 1944 alone, about 23.000 mostly female Jewish prisoners were sent from Auschwitz to Stutthof near Danzig (Archiwum Muzeum Stutthof, I-IIB-8, p. 1; Juergen Graf und Carlo Mattogno, Das Konzentrationslager Stutthof und seine Funktion in der nationalsozialistischen Judenpolitik, Castle Hill Publisher, Hastings 1999). Since the alleged killing of between 180.000 and 410.000 Hungarian Jews is said to have taken place between Mai and July of that year, most of the prisoners transferred to Stutthof would have been witnesses of this horrendous crime.

- Many prisoners were released from Auschwitz. Carlo Mattogno and I have found documentary evidence for the release of about 360 mostly Polish prisoners who had been sentenced to 49 days of re-education by labour each for breaking their work contracts (Tsentr chranjenia istoriko-dokumentalnich Kollektsii, Moscow, 502-1-436). All of them were all released in June and July 1944 (to wit, during the alleged extermination of the Hungarian Jews) which means that the total number of releases must have been many times higher. So, the stupid Nazis, who had taken great care to destroy the evidence of their atrocities, ruined it all by constantly releasing witnesses of the genocide!

Jewish holocaust historian Martin Gilbert writes:

"The names and the geographical location of the extermination camps of Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec were known in the allied countries by the summer of 1942 at the latest. On the other hand, the secret of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau remained hidden from the first week of May 1942, when they were put into function, until the third week of June 1944" (Auschwitz und die Alliierten, Verlag C.H. Beck, 1983, p. 398).

As a matter of fact, the Allied governments did not act as if they knew anything about "extermination camps", neither at Auschwitz nor elsewhere. As late as in August 1943, the US secretary of state, Cordell Hall, instructed the US ambassador in Moscow to delete any mention of the gas chambers from a joint Allied declaration on "German crimes in Poland", as there was no proof of their existence (Foreign Relations of the U.S., Diplomatic Papers, Washington 1963). After December 1943, Auschwitz was regularly photographed by Allied reconnaissance aircraft. Had the photographs revealed proof of a mass extermination, the only railway still connecting Auschwitz with Hungary would most certainly have been bombed and destroyed as soon as the deportation of the Hungarian Jews had started in spring 1944. But not only the allies did not stir a finger to save the Jews from their dire fate. The Vatican remained silent, and so did the International Red Cross. In September 1944, a Red Cross delegation was allowed to visit Auschwitz. In their subsequent report, the delegates stated that they had heard rumours about a gas chamber, but that the prisoners themselves had not confirmed these rumours. (Comite international de la Croix Rouge, L'Activite du CICR en faveur des civils detenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne, Geneva 1948, p. 92).

Thus, we are confronted with the following inescapable facts:

1) It was impossible to conceal mass murders at Auschwitz from the world.

2) The world learned nothing about mass murders at Auschwitz until June 1944, and even then nobody acted as if he believed the stories.

While Jewish organisations nowadays openly accuse the whole Christian world of having tacitly acquiesced in the extermination of the Jewish people, another conclusion, which seems to be much more logical, has been best expressed by Arthur Butz: "I see no elephant in my cellar. If there were an elephant in my cellar, I would certainly see it. Therefore, there is no elephant in my cellar." (Context and perspectives in the holocaust controversy, Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1982.)