Ecrits révisionnistes (1974-1998) BY ROBERT FAURISSON Notes and References

(1) The words of Karl Schlögel, writing in defence of Gabor Tamas Rittersporn, accused by Maxime Leo (Holocaust-Leugner im Berliner Centre Marc Bloch, Berliner Zeitung, 12 February 1998) of having lent his support to Robert Faurissons freedom of speech in 1980 (Eine Jagdpartie. Wie man einen Wissenschaftler ruiniert, ibid., 18 February 1998, p.42).

(2) In July 1981, the Knesset passed a law that prohibited the denial of the Holocaust: The publication, in writing or orally, of work that denies the acts committed during the period of the Nazi rule, which are crimes against the Jewish people or crimes against humanity, or that downplays their dimensions with the intention of defending those who committed these crimes or of expressing support for or identification with them is liable to five years imprisonment. A proposal to impose ten years imprisonment was not accepted. Thus the extermination of the Jews was no longer a subject for the historians; it was almost as if it had been uprooted from history itself and had become a national doctrine of truth, protected by law, somewhat similar in legal status to religious faith. Indeed, in one way the Holocaust has even a higher status than religion: The maximum punishment for crass injury to religious sensibilities or tradition including, presumably, any denial of Gods existence is one year in prison (Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, New York, Hill and Wang, 1993, p.464).

(3) Bulletin quotidien d'informations de l'agence télégraphique juive, 2 June 1986, p.1, 3.

(4) See Robert Maxwell, J'accuse, Sunday Mirror (of which he was the proprietor), 17 July 1988, p.2.

(5) The Jewish babies [were] thrown alive into the crematoria (Pierre Weil, director of the French public opinion poll institute SOFRES, in his article L'anniversaire impossible, Le Nouvel Observateur, 9 February 1995, p.53).

(6) Moreover, it is worthwhile [] to stress that the ghetto is historically a Jewish invention (Nahum Goldmann, Le Paradoxe juif, Paris, Stock, 1976, p.83-84); see also Pierre-André Taguieff, L'identité juive et ses fantasmes, L'Express, 20-26 January 1989, p.65.

(7) Eric Conan, Auschwitz: la mémoire du mal, L'Express, 19-25 January 1995, p.68.

(8) Ibid. In 1992, that is, long after the late 1970s, David Cole, a young Californian revisionist of Jewish origin, presented himself as the discoverer of the gas chamber falsifications at Auschwitz-I. In a mediocre video, he showed, on the one hand, the museum guides version (according to which the gas chamber is genuine) and, on the other hand, that of Franciszek Piper, a member of the museum administration (for whom this gas chamber is very similar to the original). There was nothing new in that. The trouble was that D.Cole and his friends exaggerated greatly to put it mildly in afterwards proceeding to claim that F.Piper had acknowledged that there had been a fraud. In effect, there had been a fraud but unhappily D.Cole had not been able to unmask it, because he was too ill acquainted with the body of revisionist work. He could have definitively confounded F.Piper by showing him, on film, the original blueprints which I had discovered in 1975-1976 and published in the late 1970s. Therein it is plain to see that todays alleged gas chamber is the result of a certain number of makeovers of the premises carried out after the war. For instance, the ceilings four alleged holes for the pouring in of the ZyklonB were effected quite crudely and clumsily after the war: the steel reinforcement cables in the concrete were broken by the Polish Communists and remain today as they were left then.

(9) R. J. van Pelt and D. Dwork, Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present, London, Yale University Press, 1996, p.363-364, 367, 369.

(10) J.-C. Pressac, Enquête sur les chambres à gaz, in Auschwitz, la Solution finale, Paris, Collections de L'Histoire no.3, October 1998, p.41.

(11) Jacques Baynac in Le Nouveau Quotidien (Lausanne), 2 September 1996, p.16 and 3 September 1996, p.14; see, beforehand, Jacques Baynac and Nadine Fresco, Comment s'en débarrasser ? (How to get rid of them? i.e. the revisionists), Le Monde, 18 June 1987, p.2.

(12) It has sometimes been held that the six million figure originated in a newspaper article published in 1919, under the signature of Martin H. Glynn, former governor of New York: The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! (The American Hebrew, 31 October 1919). The said M. H. Glynn therein launched an appeal for contributions to help six million European Jews who, he wrote, were being subjected to starvation and persecution and were thus experiencing a holocaust, a crucifixion. The word holocaust with the meaning of disaster is attested in English as early as the 17th century; here, in 1919, it designated the consequences of a famine described as an impending disaster. In 1894, Bernard Lazare applied the word to the massacres of Jews: from time to time, kings, noblemen, or the urban rich offered their slaves a holocaust of Jews [] the Jews were offered in holocaust (L'Antisémitisme, son histoire et ses causes, Paris, L. Chailley, 1894, re-edited Paris, La Vieille Taupe, 1985, p.67, 71).

(13) Lucy S. Davidowicz, in the compilation entitled A Holocaust Reader, New York, Behrman House, 1976, p.327; the book consists of letters translated from the Hebrew and published in New York in 1960 under the title Min hametzar.

(14) For this discovery I am indebted to the German Joachim Hoffmann; in Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945 (Stalins War of Destruction), Munich, Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften, 2nd edition,1995, p.161 and n. 42 on p.169, he points out that Ilya Ehrenburg gave that figure in an article in the Soviet War News of 4 January 1945 headlined: Once again-Remember! While trying to verify this point at Londons Imperial War Museum, I found nothing under that date; on the other hand, I did find the text mentioned by J.Hoffmann under another heading and another date: Remember, Remember, Remember, in the 22 December 1944 issue, p.4-5. Ought one to conclude that Soviet War News was published in various forms?

(15) See Holocaust Survivors, Adina Mishkoff, Administrative Assistant, AMCHA, Jerusalem, 13 August 1997 (figures supplied by the bureau of the Israeli prime minister).

(16) The miserable and fallacious mock-up (with its purported openings in the roof for the Zyklon, which, as may easily be remarked today, never existed, and with its allegedly perforated pillars which, as can also be seen today, were solid) is reproduced in another guidebook published in 1995; see Jeshajahu Weinburg and Rina Elieli, New York, Rizzoli, p.126-127. On the other hand, this second guidebook does not show what in M.Berenbaums document was presented as the exhibit par excellence to prove the reality of the gassings: an alleged gas chamber door at Majdanek.
(17) Le Nouvel Observateur, 30 September 1993, p.96.

(18) All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, volumeI, New York, Knopf, 1995, p.74.

(19) The Holocaust and History, The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined, ed. by Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J.Peck, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.) in Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1998, XV-836p.; 55 contributions.

(20) Ibid., p.15.

(21) See above, p. 6-7.

(22) On the subject of Timisoara, see, in the present work, vol.III, p.1141-1150, my study of the book by Michel Castex, Un Mensonge gros comme le siècle. Roumanie, histoire d'une manipulation (A Lie as Big as the Century), Paris, Albin Michel, 1990.

(23) The purported model of a crematorium with its gas chamber on display at the National Museum of Auschwitz, and that at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, are so cursory in design as precisely regards the gas chamber, and at such variance with the remains which may be examined on site at Auschwitz-Birkenau, that it is laughably simple to prove that these two models are purely fanciful; see above, note 16.

(24) New York, Schocken, 1996 [translator's note].

(25) See Weltwoche (Zurich), 27 August and 3 September 1998; Nicolas Weil, La mémoire suspectée de Binjamin Wilkomirski, Le Monde, 23 October 1998, p.V.

(26) Donald Watt, Stoker: the story of an Australian soldier who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995.

(27) I.e., crematoria; Fred Sedel, Habiter les ténèbres (Living in the Gloom), Paris-Geneva, La Palatine, 1963 and Paris, A.-M. Métaillié, 1990.

(28) Vivre, c'est vaincre (To Live is to Win), Maulévrier, Maine-et-Loire (France), 1988, is presented as having been written in 1945 and printed in the third quarter of 1946. In 1988, it was republished with fanfare by Héraut-Editions, with, on the cover, a blurb strip reading J'ai été témoin de l'Holocauste (I was witness to the Holocaust). It was in the Figaro of 15 May 1996 (p.2) that General Rogerie was to declare that he had beheld the Shoah at Birkenau. The extremely succinct description of the gas chambers and of the ovens with which he was supplied conflicts with todays accepted version: his witness had told him of gas entering the chambers from shower heads, and of electric ovens (p.75).

(29) A. Rogerie, Vivre, c'est vaincre, p.70, 85.

(30) Caïds, ibid., p.82.

(31) Planque royale, je garde de bons souvenirs, ibid., p.83.

(32) Ibid., p.84.

(33) Ibid.

(34) Al'encontre de bien d'autres, j'y ai été moins malheureux que partout ailleurs, ibid., p.87.

(35) Samuel Gringauz, Some Methodological Problems in the Study of the Ghetto, in Jewish Social Studies/ A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Contemporary and Historical Aspects of Jewish Life, VolumeXII, edited for The Conference on Jewish Relations, New York, 1950, p.65-72; p.65.

(36) London, T. Butterworth ltd.,1939 [translator's note].

(37) Op. cit., p.148-149.

(38) They Have Their Exits, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953, p.172.

(39) The two words in inverted commas appear as boys and job in the original [translators note].

(40) From a text of about two hundred and fifty words one may especially retain the following: More than twelve million dead! As many individuals thus to go unborn! Still more maimed, wounded, widowed and orphaned! Countless billions in assorted destructions. Scandalous fortunes made from human misery. The innocent before firing squads. The guilty honoured. A horrid life for the disinherited. The frightful price to pay. Further on it reads: The spirit of Nations must be improved by improving that of individuals with an enriched and widely expanded instruction. The people must know how to read. And above all to grasp the importance of what they read. The text ends: Cursed be war. And its perpetrators!

(41) See Christiane Gallus, Une pandémie qui a fait trois fois plus de victimes que la guerre de 1914-1918 (A Pandemic which claimed three times as many victims as the war of 1914-1918), Le Monde, 31 December 1997, p.17.

(42) Pierre Kaufmann, Le danger allemand (The German Danger), Le Monde, 8 February 1947.

(43) See Mark Weber, Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story, The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1995, p.23-30.

(44) Such was the case, for instance, of Bartley C. Crum in his book Behind the Silken Curtain, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1947, p.114.

(45) Arthur Suzman and Denis Diamond, Six Million Did Die. The Truth Shall Prevail, Johannesburg, South African Board of Jewish Deputies, 1978, 2nd edition, p.18.

(46) A. Hitchcock, born in 1899, was already known in 1945. For his macabre or morbid tastes, his art of manipulating the public, and the strange fascination brought to bear on his mind by gas, one may read Bruno Villien, Hitchcock, Paris, Colonna, 1982, p.9-10.

(47) Le Figaro, 24 October 1997, p.10.

(48) The Origins of Totalitarianism, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1951, p.446, n.138.

(49) A famous French Communist résistant, M.Paul, much like General Rogerie, had a rather good war in the camps [translators note].

(50) Le Figaro, 16 January 1995, p.29.

(51) La Shoah, de la réalité aux shows. Face aux récits des déportés, l'indécente mise en scène de leurs libérateurs, Libération, 18 December 1995, p.41.

(52) Capituler en rase campagne: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Le secret partagé (The Shared Secret), Le Nouvel Observateur, 21 September 1984, p.80.

(53) Letter appearing in Nation Review, (Australia), 21 June 1979, p.639.

(54) The Left, the Right, and the Jews, Quadrant, (Australia), September 1979, p.27.

(55) Bernard Jouanneau, La Croix, 23 September 1987, p.2.

(56) Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2 June 1998, p.A1, 15. Edgar Bronfmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, is the North American emperor of alcohol and pornography. He is head of the Seagrams group and owner of Universal Studios in Hollywood. A group of American politicians have recently voted him the first ever Silver Sewer award, notably for his reality shows featuring pregnant strippers, teenage prostitutes fighting with pimps, or undertakers having sex with corpses (Financial Times, 21-22 March 1998, p.2).

(57) B. Lazare, L'Antisémitisme, op. cit., opening page of first chapter.

(58) Ibid., p. 27.

(59) A. Kaspi, Les Juifs pendant l'Occupation (The Jews during the Occupation), revised edition, Paris, Le Seuil, 1997 [1991], p.109, n.27.

(60) I sometimes hear it said that there is greater risk for a Jew than for a non-Jew in professing revisionist views. The facts disprove this assertion. Not one Jew has been convicted or held liable in court for revisionism, not even Roger-Guy Dommergue (Polacco de Menasce) who, for years, has generated the most vehement writings against the lies of those whom he calls his fellow creatures (congénères). No-one as yet has ventured to have either the Pleven (1972) or the Fabius-Gayssot Act (1990) applied against him. Nonetheless the case of the young American revisionist David Cole deserves to be recalled, for it shows to what degree of violence certain Jewish organisations can resort in order to silence Jews who have sided with the revisionist cause.

(61) An independent researcher, who nonetheless does not publicly identify himself as a partisan, can contribute indirectly to revisionism by the mere quality of his work. I shall mention one name here, that of Jean Plantin, director of a biannual publication whose title alone indicates its erudite character: Akribeia is Greek for exactitude, painstaking care, and has given French the learned word acribie (quality of the scholar who works with extreme care). AKRIBEIA, 45/3, Route de Vourles, 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval, France.

(62) See the pertinent analysis by Guillermo Coletti, The Taming of Holocaust Revisionism, distributed on the Internet (13 November 1998) by the Anti-Censorship News Agency; electronic address: anti_censor@hotmail.com.

(63) Forgetting is not our main virtue (the words of the president of the board of deputies [consistoire] of the Toulouse Jewish community, as cited in Le Figaro, 9 October 1997, p.10).

(64) S. Thion is, in particular, the author of a revisionist work bearing the eloquent title Une Allumette sur la banquise (A Match to the Ice Floe). A revisionist book, even if its contents seem like dynamite, perhaps gives off, all told, no more light and heat than a match in the polar night, put to the ice floe of frozen ideas (p.90).

(65) See Un libraire espagnol condamné pour apologie de génocide (A Spanish Bookseller Convicted for Justification of Genocide'), Le Monde, 19 November 1998, p. 3; also, an article by Emmanuel Ratier in his periodical Faits & Documents (Facts & Documents), Paris, issue of 1 December 1998, p.12.

(66) See Crackdown on hate materials planned, National Post, (Canada), 25 November 1998.

(67) See Athens News, 28 June 1998, p. 1.