Ecrits révisionnistes (1974-1998) BY ROBERT FAURISSON Chapter 6: HOLOCAUST PROPAGANDA: SHOWING THE DEAD AND TELLING OF KILLED, SHOWING CREMATORIA AND TELLING OF GAS CHAMBERS

It is by means of the manipulation of images that the masses are most easily fooled. From April 1945, British and American journalists, upon the opening of the German concentration camps, hurried to photograph and film true horrors which were later made, if it may be said thus, into horrors truer than life. In the familiar language dear to people of the press, a put-up job was done; we were served with some Timisoara before its time(22). On the one hand, we were shown real dead bodies as well as real crematoria and, on the other hand, thanks to some misleading comments and a cinematic staging, a deft artifice was effected which I describe by a phrase which may serve as a device for unmasking all of these impostures:

We were led to take the dead for killed and crematoria for mass-execution gas chambers.

One might feel inclined to add: and a sow's ear for a silk purse.

Thus was born the confusion, still so widespread today, between, on the one hand, the crematoria, which actually existed (but not at Bergen-Belsen) for the incineration of corpses and, on the other hand, the Nazi gas chambers which allegedly served to kill whole crowds of men and women but which, in reality, never existed nor could have existed.

The myth of the Nazi gas chambers and their association with the crematoria originated, in its media form, in the press pictures of and comments on a camp that of Bergen-Belsen which, by the very admission of the orthodox historians, possessed neither mass-execution gas chambers nor even simple crematoria.