On Monday, April 24, 2017 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and former member of the Communist “Free German Youth” in the German Democratic Republic, will receive the Elie Wiesel Award from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (see German Chancellor Merkel to Receive Museum’s 2017 Elie Wiesel Award, USHMM press…
This piece does not constitute a record of the debate on the question of the Nazi gas chambers. It is merely intended for the layman who would like to know the circumstances in which Le Monde, in 1978, came to give me the chance to express myself on that subject, and to have an idea of…
Retired university professor Robert Faurisson lives in the central French town of Vichy. At 9 am on January 24 he answered a summons to appear at the local police station. No sooner had he arrived there than he was notified by three senior officers, sent from Paris the day before, that he was now in…
Mal leur en a pris. Il ne fallait pas chercher querelle au professeur Faurisson. C’est ce qu’ont appris à leurs dépens, d’abord, le substitut du procureur de la République, Anne de Fontette, initiateur des poursuites, puis, les trois parties civiles (LICRA, MRAP, Ligue des droits de l’homme) et, enfin, le nouveau président de la XVIIe chambre,…
They came to grief for it. Quite a bad idea, picking a quarrel with Professor Faurisson. That is what they have learned to their cost, “they” being, first, Madame le substitut du procureur (“deputy public prosecutor”) of the French Republic in Paris, Anne de Fontette, initiator of the proceedings, then the three civil plaintiffs – the LICRA…
Professor Robert Faurisson, born in 1929, lectured in modern and contemporary French literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Lyon, specialising at the latter in the “Appraisal of texts and documents (literature, history, media)”. In the 1970s he demonstrated the radical impossibility, on physical and chemical grounds, of the existence and operation of the…
Historical revisionism, the great intellectual adventure of the late twentieth century, continues at the dawn of the twenty-first, as perilous as ever. But what is known of the revisionists? What stuff are they made of, these unsubdued people who, in France or abroad, persist in braving the written and unwritten laws? They are hunted, caught…
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…
On the subject of the Nazi gas chambers, Jean-Marie Le Pen has recently stated: If you take a thousand-page book on the Second World War, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or fifteen lines, and that’s called a detail. He might have brought up some even harder hitting and more…
The cover of this week’s L’Evénement du jeudi (The event of Thursday) bears a photo of abbé Pierre and the title: “Holocaust: the victory of the revisionists”. The gist of the dossier on the topic is ten pages long (p. 16-25), with other elements on a few more pages (3, 5, 10, 13). All the articles…