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They Committed Suicide?

By Arthur R. Butz ∙ November 18, 1997

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Robert M. O'Neil is Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and author of Classrooms in the Crossfire: The Rights and Interests of Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators, Librarians, and the Community. He is also former President of the Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin.

His most recent book is Free Speech in the College Community, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1997. The book seems an earnest effort to treat the announced subject. Several examples of instances in which freedom of expression issues were raised in college communities are used to elucidate O'Neil's views, and my expressions of my views on the “Holocaust” are prominent among them.

In view of the importance O'Neil attaches to the “Butz case, which already pushes academic freedom principles to the edge” (p. xii), the reader should be disappointed that he has taken so little trouble to learn the content of my views. He wrote that I claim “that six million Jews either suffered an epidemic or took their own lives during the late 1930s and early 1940s” (pp. xi, 27).

Distortion of this magnitude is not unprecedented but I had not heard this particular canard before. Therefore I can only assume that O'Neil did not get this misrepresentation of my views from a source he chose to trust, and just invented it for the occasion. Such is the level of discourse today.

18 November 1997.

  • Arthur R. Butz

    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.

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