Literature

Is the “Diary” of Anne Frank Genuine? Author’s preface to the Italian edition
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Is the “Diary” of Anne Frank Genuine? Author’s preface to the Italian edition

Cesare Saletta, to whom I am indebted for the present translation, is a man of distinguished intellect. I thank him for his work and gladly accede to his wish that I bring forth a few clarifications on the lot that has befallen my analysis of the alleged diary of Anne Frank. This analysis, if I…

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My revisionist method

[Essay adapted from the address of May 29, 2000 to the 13th IHR Conference in Irvine, California. Published in The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (March-April 2002, p. 7-14] I’m not accustomed to receiving compliments and congratulations in my country, douce France. [1] Only a few days ago, in Le Figaro [May 26, 2000], one…

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No light, no smoke, no stench, no holes: no “Holocaust”!

In addition to: “No holes, no ‘Holocaust’!”, one may add: “And no light, no smoke, no stench”, in accord with Dr Maurice Rossel, member of the International Committee of the Red Cross who, in September 1944, visited the Commandant of the Auschwitz camp (see “Sur Auschwitz, un document capital de la Croix-Rouge internationale”, Ecrits révisionnistes (1974-1998), p….

On Albert Paraz’s Preface to Le Mensonge d’Ulysse by Paul Rassinier (1950)
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On Albert Paraz’s Preface to Le Mensonge d’Ulysse by Paul Rassinier (1950)

Nearly half a century on, a rereading of the preface which Albert Paraz wrote in 1950 for Paul Rassinier’s Le Mensonge d’Ulysse (“The Lie of Ulysses”) strikes us by the daring of the author’s reasoning and the freedom of his tone. In today’s France there is no longer any place for either of those qualities. The Pleven…

According to the Talmud, Jesus is plunged for eternity in boiling hot excrement
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According to the Talmud, Jesus is plunged for eternity in boiling hot excrement

The Talmud greatly permeates Jewish life, including the material aspects of everyday existence. It is the transcription of the Jewish oral tradition. A fundamental work of Judaism, it is meant to serve as a code of canon law and civil law. The Jews often complain of their portrayal as given by either the Gospels or…

Preface to the re-edition of A-t-on lu Rimbaud ?

Preface to the re-edition of A-t-on lu Rimbaud ?

In 1961, Jean-Jacques Pauvert published A-t-on lu Rimbaud ?  (“Has Rimbaud been Read?”). In 1971, he republished the work together with the additional text “L’affaire Rimbaud”. Without “driving the whole country mad”, as René Étiemble put it, the book still had some success and caused a bit of brainstorming. In it I showed that, notwithstanding his reputation, Rimbaud was logical….