Book Announcements

Politics of Slave Labor

The Fate of the Jews Deported from Hungary and the Lodz Ghetto in 1944

Authored by Carlo Mattogno

Ever The deportation of more than 400,000 Jews from Hungary to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp from mid-May to early July 1944 is said to have been the pinnacle of this camp’s extermination frenzy. It was allegedly followed in August 1944 by the extermination of more than 70,000 Jews deported from the Łódź Ghetto.

For the present book, the author has gathered from vast archival resources all the evidence available on both events. In painstaking research, the author proves almost on a person-by-person level what the fate was of many of the Jews deported from Hungary or the Łódź Ghetto.

In the case of the Jews deported from Hungary, it can be demonstrated that those among them who were deemed fit for forced-labor deployment – some 30% of all deported Jews – were indeed sent to forced-labor assignments throughout territories still under German control at that point in time. For the Łódź Ghetto, available documentation shows that almost all of these Jews were merely relocated, together with their production equipment. The challenge was to move them out of harm’s way of the invading Red Army.

Little documental or reliable anecdotal evidence exists about the fate of those Jews deported from Hungary who were classified as unfit for labor. This concerned mainly children together with their primary caregivers (usually their mothers) as well as the elderly and frail. Testimonies of third-party observers mainly from inside the Auschwitz Camp indicate that these Jews were slaughtered in the alleged homicidal gas chambers.

The claimed magnitude of this slaughter, with ten thousand and more victims every day, is said to have exceeded the Auschwitz crematoria’s capacity. Therefore, the majority of these victims were presumably burned on huge outdoor pyres. However, air photos taken by several reconnaissance missions of Allied air forces refute these claims, showing an entirely peaceful Auschwitz Camp during that time span. Hence, the available evidence points at brutal politics of slave labor rather than mass-murderous genocide.

* * *

Post Scriptum: This book has two sections consisting almost exclusively of quotes from statements by witnesses who had been deported from Hungary or Łódź Ghetto to Auschwitz, and who ended up – not in the gas chambers, but in labor camps all over Germany (Section 1.6., pp. 60-89; Section 2.7, pp. 193-201). Castle Hill’s style definitions automatically render quotations indented and in italics. Hence, the sections mentioned are dominated by text in italics. According to Michael Santomauro, this amounts to torturing our readers, so he threatened to destroy any future Castle Hill book with similar features. If our readers feel tormented by these italics, I sincerely apologize. As compensation, I may indicate that your suffering is incomparably less severe than the torture experienced by orthodox believers reading this book. That thought may give you some pleasure.

Miscellaneous Book

Castle Hill released a new edition of the following older book:

Cyrus Cox, Auschwitz – Forensically Examined, 2nd edition (November 2023)

This book was updated to reflect the most-recent bibliographic information as well as the current situation at censorship front, and a few minor errors were corrected. This handy and concise overview of Auschwitz forensics is still in 5×8 format, though.

Endnotes

[1] See his article “The Ghetto of Lodz in Holocaust Propaganda” in Issue No. 2.

[2] Carlo Mattogno, “The Deportation of Hungarian Jews from May to July 1944: A Preliminary Account,” April 12, 2001; https://codoh.com/library/document/the-deportation-of-hungarian-jews-from-may-to-july-1944/.