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 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…
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…
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…
1. The devastating barb: “There’s no business like Shoah business” is, sad to say, a recognizable truth. Leon A. Jick, “The Holocaust: its Use and Abuse within the American Public”, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem Studies, XIV (1981), p. 316. 2. In the case of the genocide of the Jews, it is obvious that one of the…
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….
We are conscious today that many many centuries of blindness have cloaked our eyes so that we can no longer either see the beauty of Thy Chosen People nor recognize in their faces the features of our privileged brethren. We realise that the mark of Cain stands upon our foreheads. Across the centuries our brother…
Elie Wiesel has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1986. He is generally accepted as a witness to the Jewish “Holocaust”, and, more specifically, as a witness to the alleged Nazi homicidal gas chambers. In its issue of today the French daily Le Monde stresses that this award to Elie Wiesel comes at the right time, for These…