Dr. Arthur R. Butz was born in 1933 and raised in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he is still Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (at age 90 in 2024!). Dr. Butz is the author of numerous technical papers. From 1980 until its termination in 2002, he was a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of The Journal of Historical Review.
Dr. Butz is the author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry, first published in 1976, and a number of minor revisionist papers. For those writings, he has been vilified and ostracized ever since.
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ September 5, 2008
The 1977 publication of David Irving's fine military history Hitler's War provoked an uproar over what should have been a marginal point but which, with ironic collaboration between Irving and his critics, has become the central point of the book. Irving claimed that Hitler knew nothing of physical extermination of the Jews until late in…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ January 7, 2007
The Nuremberg trials document NO-4473 has been a nagging problem for decades. I have offered three interpretations of the word “Vergasungskeller” that appears in that document , dated 29 Jan. 1943, from the Auschwitz construction department and dealing with Crematorium II. In order not to be repetitive, I refer the reader to my 1997 paper[1]…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ January 7, 2007
Before 1943, the only crematorium at Auschwitz was the six muffle installation at “Auschwitz I”, i.e. the Stammlager (main or original camp). This was “Crematorium I”. A “muffle” is the familiar chamber designed to admit one body and has a door of appropriate size. Early in 1942, plans were drawn up for a new crematorium…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ December 29, 2006
Jailing Opinions. A documentary exploring the criminalization of normal historical enquiry and expression, including first-hand accounts from those attending the trial of British historian David Irving who is currently incarcerated in Vienna, Austria, for talking about events that happened (or not, as the case may be) more than sixty years ago. A DVD produced and…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ December 28, 2005
The book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry, by Arthur R. Butz (1976), is now back in print in a new and moderately revised edition available from The Barnes Review, whose address are given below. In Britain, it is available from Castle Hill Publishers, whose address…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ December 18, 2005
December 18, 2005 Recently I was asked for my opinion on the recent remarks of Iran's President Ahmadinejad on the subject of the Jewish “Holocaust”. Here they are. I base my comments on the reports on these remarks that I have read in the Western press. In 1976 I published a book, entitled “The Hoax…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ August 28, 2005
It appears to be just a coincidence that, just as the reports came out, of forgery of the documents used by author Martin Allen to argue that Himmler was murdered, a book was about to be published in Germany arguing the same without dependence on those documents. Thus the Arndt Verlag had to delay the…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ July 2, 2005
Three weeks ago I reported that David Irving had posted documents proving that Heinrich Himmler was murdered. Now, as a result of investigations commissioned by the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph [once at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler02.xml, but now removed; ed.], it appears these documents were forged. The documents in question came from the archives of the British…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ June 11, 2005
In closing Chapter 7 of my 1976 book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century , I wrote: Himmler Nailed It Perfectly The “gas chambers” were wartime propaganda fantasies completely comparable to the garbage that was shoveled out by Lord Bryce and associates in World War I. The factual basis for these ridiculous charges was nailed…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ April 6, 2002
The Chicago Public Library's program “One Book, One Chicago” has chosen, for 2002, Elie Wiesel's Night, a little book that purports to be an account of this Jew's experiences at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps after deportation in 1944 at age 15. The general idea is that we here in the Chicago area should be…
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