With consternation, Elie Wiesel, a tear in his eye, realises that everything is now revised, beginning with himself. The sign he has to hold up reads “Je suis Faurisson”. Faurisson has written much on the individual, especially a 1986 article entitled A prominent false witness: Elie Wiesel. Near the lower left-hand corner one will note…
June 10, 2014 (1h.9m.)
According to a report from the Centre d’étude de la vie politique française (“Centre for the study of French political life”, CEVIPOF), 35% of the population of France as a whole think that there is too much talk of the extermination of the Jews, 20% consider that the Jews have too much power in France and 51% have a…
Foreword to the French edition, Confidences d’un révisionniste américain Bradley Smith was born in Los Angeles in 1930 to working-class parents who were of Roman Catholic background but hardly church-going. As a child, he liked the stories his mother read to him, and enjoyed reading as well. At the age of ten or eleven, he discovered…
Once upon a time there was an angler who, on meeting a stranger, said in a frantic voice: “It’s a miracle! I’ve just made a unique, an unprecedented catch: in yonder stream, it so happens, I hooked a two hundred-pound carp.” The stranger, who, as luck would have it, was a sceptic, a disciple of…
For the historian, the sociologist or the jurist, the case of Australian revisionist Fredrick Toben is among the simplest and most instructive. It is also both appalling and amusing. One day, moved by curiosity, this German-born Australian left the antipodes on a journey to Europe in order to confer with an individual who had coined…
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…
[Essay adapted from the talk of May 29, 2000 at 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 Gérard…
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….
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…