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Default Robert FAURISSON: Introduction to “Écrits Révisionnistes (1974-1998)”



Robert FAURISSON



THE OFFICIAL HISTORY: A BIT OF TRUTH MIXED IN WITH A GREAT DEAL OF FALSEHOOD
ITS SUCCESSIVE RETRACTIONS IN THE FACE OF REVISIONIST ADVANCES


It is accurate to say that National-Socialist Germany built concentration camps; she did so after – and at the same time as – a good number of other countries, all of which were convinced that their camps would be more humane than prison. Hitler saw in them what Napoleon III had thought he saw in the creation of penal colonies: progress for Man. But it is false to maintain that Germany ever created “extermination camps” (an expression fashioned by the Allies).


It is accurate to say that the Germans manufactured gas-powered vans(Gaswagen).But it is false to say that they ever built homicidal gas vans (if a single one of such things had ever existed it would be on display at the automobile museum or at one of the various “Holocaust” museums, if only in the form of a scientifically valid sketch).


It is accurate to say that the Germans employed Zyklon (made from a base of hydrocyanic acid and in use since 1922) to safeguard the health, by disinfection, of large numbers of civilians, troops, prisoners, and internees. But they never used Zyklon in order to kill anyone, let alone to put to death throngs of human beings at once; because of the draconian precautions for the use of hydrogen cyanide gas, the gassing of inmates as it is alleged to have been done at Auschwitz and other camps would, besides, have been fundamentally impossible. I explain this point at length in the body of the present work.


It is accurate to say that the Germans envisaged a “final solution of the Jewish question” (Endlösung der Judenfrage). But the solution was a territorial one (territoriale Endlösung der Judenfrage) and not a murderous one; it was a project to induce or, if necessary, to force the Jews to leave Germany and her European sphere of influence, thereafter to establish, in accord with the Zionists, a Jewish national home, in Madagascar or elsewhere. Many Zionists collaborated with National-Socialist Germany with a view towards such a solution.


It is accurate to say that a gathering of German officials was held at a villa in Wannsee, on the outskirts of Berlin, on January 20, 1942, to discuss the Jewish question. But the subject of their discussions was the forced emigration or deportation of the Jews, as well as the future creation of a specific Jewish territorial entity, not a programme of physical extermination.


It is accurate to say that some German concentration camps had crematoria with which to incinerate corpses. But their purpose was to combat epidemics, not to incinerate, as some have dared assert, living human beings along with corpses [5].


It is accurate to say that many Jews experienced the hardships of war, of internment, deportation, the detention camps, the concentration camps, the forced labour camps, the ghettos; that there were, for various reasons, summary executions of Jews, that Jews were the object of reprisals and even massacres, for there are no wars without massacres. But it is equally true that all of these sufferings were also the lot of many other nations or communities during the war and, in particular, of the Germans and their Allies (the hardships of the ghetto aside, for the ghetto is first and foremost a specific creation of the Jews themselves [6]); it is above all most plausible, for whoever is not afflicted with a hemiplegic memory and who seeks to acquaint himself with both sides of Second World War history (both the side that is always shown and the side almost always hidden), that the hardships of the vanquished during the war and afterwards were, in number and in nature, greater than those of the Jews and the victors, especially as regards deportations.


It is false that there ever existed, as some have long dared state, any order whatever, given by Hitler or any of his associates, to exterminate the Jews. During the war German soldiers and officers were convicted by their own courts martial, and sometimes shot, for having killed Jews.


It is a good thing that the exterminationists (that is, those who believe in the extermination of the Jews) have ended up growing weary to the point where they acknowledge that no trace of any plan, instruction or document relating to a policy of physical extermination of the Jews has ever been found and that, by the same token, they have at last admitted that no trace of any budget for such an undertaking, or of an entity in charge of running such a project, has been found either.


It is a good thing that the exterminationists have at last conceded to the revisionists that the judges at the Nuremberg trial (1945-1946) accepted as true certain pure inventions, such as the stories of soap produced from Jewish fat, of the lampshades made of human skin, of the “shrunken heads”, and of gassings at Dachau; and it is an especially good thing that the exterminationists have finally recognised that the most spectacular, the most terrifying, the most significant part of that trial (i.e. the session of April 15, 1946, in the course of which a former commandant of the Auschwitz camp, Rudolf Höss, was seen and heard to confess openly that, in his camp, millions of Jews had been gassed), was merely the fruit of the tortures inflicted on him. That confession, presented for so many years and in so many historical works as the number 1 “proof” of the genocide of the Jews, is now consigned to oblivion, at least as far as historians are concerned.


It is fortunate that the exterminationist historians have finally acknowledged that SS officer Kurt Gerstein’s famous testimony, an essential feature in their arguments, is devoid of value; it is loathsome that the French University revoked the revisionist Henri Roques's doctorate, earned for having demonstrated that fact in 1985.


It is pitiful that Raul Hilberg, the pope of exterminationism, ventured to write, in the first edition of his The Destruction of the European Jews (1961), that there had been two orders from Hitler to exterminate the Jews, then to declare later, in 1983, that the extermination had come about of its own, without any order or plan but by way of “an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus-mind reading” on the part of the far-flung German bureaucracy. So it was that R. Hilberg replaced a gratuitous assertion with a magical explanation: telepathy.


It is a good thing that the exterminationists have finally (or very nearly) come to abandon, in practice, the charge, based on “testimonies”, according to which there existed execution gas chambers at the camps of Ravensbrück, Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Hartheim, Struthof-Natzweiler, Stutthof-Danzig, Bergen-Belsen…


It is a good thing that the most visited gas chamber in the world – that of Auschwitz-I – has at last (since January 1995) been recognised for what it is: in a word, a fabrication. It is fortunate that it has at last been admitted that “EVERYTHING IN IT IS FALSE”, and I personally delight in knowing that a historian of the official Establishment has been able to write: “In the late 1970s, Robert Faurisson exploited these falsifications all the better as the [Auschwitz] museum administration balked at acknowledging them [7]”. I delight all the more as the French courts, in their iniquity, had convicted me for basically saying just that.


It is a good thing that, in the same article, the same historian revealed that such an eminent figure in the Jewish world as Théo Klein saw in that “gas chamber” only an “artifice”.


It is also a good thing that, again in the same article, the same historian revealed, first, that the Auschwitz museum authorities were conscious of having deceived millions of visitors (five hundred thousand per year in the early nineties), and second, that they would nevertheless continue to deceive their visitors in future for, as the museum's assistant director put it: “It [i.e. telling the truth about this ‘gas chamber’] is too complicated. We'll see to it later on [8]”.


It is fortunate that in 1996 two historians of Jewish origin, the Canadian Robert Jan van Pelt and the American Debórah Dwork, finally denounced some of the enormous fakeries of the Auschwitz camp-museum and the cynicism with which visitors were being duped there [9].


It is, on the other hand, unconscionable that UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) should maintain its patronage (as it has done since 1979) of a site like Auschwitz, whose centre harbours, in its fake “gas chamber” (to say nothing of other enormous falsifications), an imposture now avowed as such; UNESCO (based in Paris and headed by Federico Mayor) has no right to use the membership dues of constituent countries to endorse a vast swindle so incompatible with the interests of “education”, “science” and “culture”.


It is fortunate that Jean-Claude Pressac, after having been praised to the skies, has fallen into discredit. Propelled by the Klarsfeld couple, this pharmacist thought it wise to seek out a half-way position between those who believed in the gas chambers and those who did not. For him, in a sense, the woman being examined was neither pregnant nor unpregnant but half-pregnant and even, with time, less and less pregnant. An author of writings that were supposed to be on the Nazi gas chambers but in which not one comprehensive photograph or drawing of a single one of those chemical slaughterhouses was to be found, the pitiful scribbler would, on May 9, 1995 in the XVIIth chamber of the Paris correctional court, go on to give a demonstration of his total inability to answer the presiding judge's questions as to what, concretely, one such mass-murder machine might actually have been. Three years on he has been reduced to writing: “Thus, according to the statements of former members of the Sonderkommando, it is reckoned with firm certainty that a film on homicidal gassings was shot by the SS at Birkenau. Why should it not be found by chance [at some future date] in the attic or cellar of a former SS man?” [10].


It is fortunate that “the gas chamber” in ruins, constituting a part of Krematorium II of Birkenau (Auschwitz-II), can above all serve to show “in vivo” and “de visu” that there never was a “Holocaust”, either in this camp or in any other. In effect, according both to a German defendant’s statements under examination and the aerial photographs “retouched” by the Allies, the roof of this gas chamber would seem to have had four special openings (about ten inches square, it was specified) for the pouring in of the Zyklon. But, as anyone at the site may note, none of those four openings ever existed. Auschwitz being the capital of the “Holocaust”, and this ruined crematorium being at the core of the purported process for exterminating Jews at Auschwitz, I was able to say, in 1994 (and the turn of phrase seems to have made some progress in people’s minds): “No holes, no ‘Holocaust’.”


It is equally fortunate that a plethora of “testimonies”, according to which those gassings had happened, have thus ended up being invalidated and it is, by the same token, extremely deplorable that so many Germans, tried by their victorious opponents, were convicted, and some of them even put to death, for crimes that they could not have committed.


It is a good thing that, in the light of trials resembling so many judicial masquerades, the exterminationists themselves voice doubts as to the validity of many testimonies; these testimonies’ defective nature would appear yet more clearly if the trouble were ever taken to order a legal inspection of the supposed weapon of the supposed crime. But, in the course of a thousand trials concerning Auschwitz or other camps, no court has ordered any such inquiry (the lone exception, very little known, being that carried out at Struthof-Natzweiler in Alsace, the results of which were kept hidden until I myself revealed them). It was nonetheless known that a good number of testimonies or confessions needed to be verified and measured up against the material facts and that, in the absence of those two conditions, they were worthless as evidence.


It is fortunate that the official history has revised downwards – often in considerable proportions – the supposed number of victims. It took more than forty years of revisionist pressure for the Jewish authorities and those of the Auschwitz museum to remove the nineteen plaques which, in nineteen different languages, announced that the number of victims there had been four million. It then took five years of internal bickering for agreement to be reached on the new figure of one and a half million, a figure which, in turn, was very quickly challenged by exterminationist authors; J.-C. Pressac, S. Klarsfeld’s protégé, now proposes, for his part, no greater a number than 600,000 to 800,000 Jewish and non-Jewish victims over the whole period of the Auschwitz complex’s existence. It is a pity that this quest for the true figure is not followed through to attain the likely figure of 150,000 persons, victims, mainly, of epidemics in the nearly forty camps there. It is deplorable that, in the schools of France, the film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) in which the Auschwitz death toll is put at nine million, continues to be screened; in that film are perpetuated the myths of the “soap made from the bodies”, the lampshades of human skin and the streaks traced by victims’ fingernails in the concrete walls of the gas chambers; it proclaims that “nothing distinguished the gas chamber from an ordinary barracks”!


It was a good thing that in 1988 Arno Mayer, a Princeton University professor of Jewish origin, should suddenly write: “Sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once rare and unreliable” [10a]; but why should it have been affirmed for so long that the sources were countless and trustworthy, and why should such scorn have been poured on the revisionists who, from 1950 onwards, had written what Arno Mayer discovered in 1988?


It was a particularly good thing that in 1996 the French historian Jacques Baynac, who had made a speciality, in Le Monde and elsewhere, of labelling the revisionists as forgers, should finally acknowledge that there was, in the end, no evidence of the gas chambers’ existence. It was, he made clear, “as painful to say as it is to hear” [10]. Perhaps, in certain circumstances, the truth is, for certain persons, “as painful to say as it is to hear” but, for revisionists, the truth is as pleasant to say as it is to hear.


Lastly, it is fortunate that the exterminationists have enabled themselves to undermine the third and last component of the Shoah trinity: the figure of six million Jewish deaths. It seems that this number was first put forth [12] by Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel (1903-1956); established in Slovakia, this rabbi was the main contriver of the Auschwitz lie based on the alleged testimonies of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler; he organised intensive “information campaigns” aimed at the Allies, Switzerland and the Vatican. In a letter of May 31, 1944 (i.e. nearly a full year before the war’s end in Europe) he did not shrink from writing: “Till now six times a million Jews from Europe and Russia have been destroyed [13].”


This figure of six million was to be found elsewhere as well before the war’s end in the writings of the Soviet Jew Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967), perhaps the most hateful propagandist of the Second World War [14]. In 1979 it was suddenly termed “symbolic” (that is, false) by the exterminationist Martin Broszat during the trial of a German revisionist. In 1961 Raul Hilberg, that most prestigious of conventional historians, estimated the number of Jewish deaths to have been 5.1 million. In 1953 another of those historians, Gerald Reitlinger, had put forth a figure of between 4.2 and 4.6 million. But, in fact, no historian of that school has ever offered figures based on the results of any investigation; it has always been a matter of each one’s own more or less educated guess. The revisionist Paul Rassinier, for his part, proposed the figure of “about one million” Jewish deaths but did so, as he pointed out, on the basis of numbers furnished by the opposing faction; thus his figure was also a product of guesswork. The truth is that many European Jews perished, and many survived. With modern methods of calculation it should be possible to determine what, in either case, is meant by “many”. But the three sources from which the necessary information might be got are, in practice, either forbidden to independent researchers or of limited access:


– first, the enormous body of documentation gathered by the International Tracing Service (ITS) of Bad Arolsen, Germany, which is answerable to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Switzerland; access to this centre is jealously guarded by a panel of ten States, one of which is Israel;
– second, documents in the possession of Poland and Russia and of which only a part has been made accessible: death registries of certain camps, cremation registries, etc.;
– finally, the names of millions of Jewish survivors who have received or are still receiving financial indemnities or reparations, either in Israel or in dozens of countries represented by the World Jewish Congress in New York. The mere enumeration of these names would serve to show the extent to which a community so often said to have been “exterminated” was not exterminated at all.


Fifty-two years after the war the State of Israel still put the official number of “Holocaust survivors” in the world at around nine hundred thousand (the actual figures given were: between 834,000 and 960,000) [15]. According to a reckoning made by the Swedish statistician Carl O. Nordling, to whom I submitted that Israeli government evaluation, it is possible, with the postulate of the existence of nine hundred thousand “survivors” in 1997, to conclude that there were, at the end of the war in Europe in 1945, slightly more than three million “survivors”. Still today, “survivors’” organisations proliferate under the most diverse names; they group together veteran Jewish “résistants” as well as former children of Auschwitz (that is, Jewish children born in that camp or interned there with their parents at a very early age), former Jewish forced labourers or, more simply, one-time clandestine Jews or Jewish fugitives. Millions of beneficiaries of “miracles” no longer constitute a “miracle” but are rather the products of a natural phenomenon. The American press reports fairly often on moving reunions of family members, “Holocaust” survivors all, each of whom was, we are assured, convinced hitherto that “the entire family” had been lost.


To sum up, in spite of the dogma and the laws, the pursuit of the historical truth about the Second World War in general and about the Shoah in particular has made headway in recent years, but the general public are kept in the dark about this; they would be stunned to learn that many of their firmest beliefs had, from the early 1980s onwards, been relegated by the most orthodox historians to the rank of popular legend. It could, from this point of view, be said that there existed two structures of the “Holocaust” idea: on the one hand, that of the public at large and, on the other hand, that of the conventional historians; the first would seem to be unshakeable, the second threatened with imminent collapse, to judge by the number of hasty repairs being made to it.


The orthodox historians’ concessions to the revisionists have, year after year – and especially since 1979 – been so many and of such quality that today they find themselves at a dead end. They no longer have anything of substance to say on the very subject of the “Holocaust”. They have handed the baton to the film-makers, novelists and theatre people. Even the museographers are at a loss. At Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum the “decision” has been taken not to offer “any physical representation of the gas chambers” to public view (according to the statement that the museum’s scientific director, Michael Berenbaum, made before me and four witnesses in August 1994; he is the author of a guidebook of over 200 pages in which, in effect, no physical representation of the gas chambers appears, not even one of the miserable and fallacious mock-up displayed for visitors to his museum [16]). The public there are forbidden to take photographs. Claude Lanzmann, maker of Shoah, a film remarkable for its utter lack of historical or scientific content, today no longer has any recourse but to pontificate in deploring the fact that “the revisionists occupy the whole terrain” [17]. As for Elie Wiesel, he calls on all to show discretion; he requests that we no longer try to see at close quarters or to imagine what, according to him, happened in the gas chambers: “Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to imagination” [18]. The “Holocaust” historians have turned into theoreticians, philosophers, “thinkers”. The squabbles amongst them, between “intentionalists” and “functionalists”, or between supporters and adversaries of a thesis such as Daniel Goldhagen’s on the near-innate propensity of Germans to descend into antisemitism and racist crime, ought not to conceal from view the indigence of their specifically historical work.

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