Who is Arthur Butz?

Arthur Butz

Northwestern University engineering professor and author of famous Holocaust denial book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Arthur Butz is known as the most academically opinionated revisionist in the world. Butz stands out above all his fellow deniers not only for his unique intellectual writing style, but also his straight-forward criticisms on other denier’s books. He is not afraid to admit that he believes the Nazi’s may have killed up to a million Jews. Instead, he believes the Einsatzgruppen, or German Mobile Killing Units, were responsible for killing citizens, but the Jews may have been personally singled out by the SS members as a result of racism. Butz does not directly attack the Jewish religion in his books, and claims Zionism, a Jewish anti-Semitism movement in the late nineteenth century, as a major contributor to the Holocaust hoax. Additionally, he is not the only denier to consider Zionists the creators of this myth. What he and others coincidentally seemed to overlook while researching, was the fact that this movement did not have nearly enough Jewish supporters to give it the power to carry out highly in depth plans. Meaning that there is no way that the Jewish people could have created the Holocaust myth as a way to achieve the State of Israel.