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The Real Eichmann Trial Or the Incorrigible Victors by Paul Rassinier THE REAL EICHMANN TRIAL or THE INCORRIGIBLE VICTORS by PAUL RASSINIER Translated from the original French INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW ÉDITIONS DE L'AAARGH Internet, 2002 The original edition of this book was published under the title of Le Véritable Procès Eichmann ou les Vainqueurs incorrigibles copyright by Les Sept Couleurs, Paris, 1962. This edition incorporates additions and modifications by the author and is thus not entirely identical to the original French edition. The Real Eichmann Trial or The Incorrigible Victors by Paul Rassinier Published in the United States by Institute for Historical Review Post Office Box 1306 Torrance, California 90505 Manufactured in the United Kingdom ISBN 0-911038-48-5 Library of Congress Catalog Number 76-19192 First Printing May 1976 Second Printing March 1979 Third Printing October 1983 Internet edition 2002 – 2 – CONTENTS Foreword 5 Introduction 7 I.– From Stalingrad to Nuremberg 30 II.–The Principles of Nuremberg 40 III.– Conspiracy and Crimes against Peace 50 IV.– War Crimes 75 V.– Crimes against Humanity 88 VI.– Conclusion on Nuremberg 121 VII.– The Eichmann Trial or The New Master Singers of Nuremberg 130 VIII.– The Auschwitz Trial 155 – 3 – FOREWORD A confirmed total pacifist, Paul Rassinier was drawn into the Communist Party in 1922 at the age of 16, by the anarchist Victor Serge. Having very quickly turned against it, he was expelled from the Party. After various attempts at unifying the workers' movement along the political lines of Souvarine, and the trade union projects of Pierre Monatte, he joined the Socialist Party on the evening of February 6th, 1934. As Secretary of the Union of Belfort, he leaned first towards Marceau Pivert, then towards Paul Faure, and attempted to popularise in Franche-Comté the pacifist viewpoints of Félicien Challaya, René Gérin, Madeleine Vernet and Louis Lecoin. In 1939 he was saved from Daladierist fury by Paul Faure. As one of the founders of the "Libé-Nord" movement (he was in the Resistance from the very start) he tried to inculcate into his comrades the idea of non-violence and the principles of total pacifism. This attitude caused him to be condemned to death by the Communist resistance; after receiving the warning coffin effigy, he only escaped pistol shots thanks to being arrested by the Gestapo (October 30th, 1943). He was deported to Buchenwald, then to Dora. On his return to France, invalided out and decorated with the Médaille de la Résistance, and Reconnaissance Française, he resumed his place at the head of the S.F.I.O. union in Belfort. He loudly proclaimed that whilst in the Resistance he had never met most of the men now speaking in its name and, firm in his own personal experience, he attacked their pretentions of having suppressed "collaboration". Rassinier was defeated in the first Constituent Assembly elections by the Communists, who kept him out by giving their votes to the far Left candidate, but he was elected at the second. He was again defeated on November 10th, 1946 through the Communists' using the same method. The state of his health did not permit his resumption of his post as professor of history and geography so he retired from public and professional life and published successively: Le Passage de la Ligne, 1948 [sic] Le Mensonge d'Ulysse, 1950 Le Discours de la Dernière Chance (introductory essay to a doctrine of Peace on the theme: "Neither Moscow nor Washington"), 1953 Candasse ou la huitième péché capital, 1955 Le Parlement aux mains des banques, also 1955 Ulysse trahi par les siens, which is complementary to Mensonge d'Ulysse, 1960 L'Équivoque révolutionnaire, 1961 Le Véritable Procès Eichmann ou Les Vainqueurs incorrigibles, 1962 By the same author: Passage de la ligne, (Editions Bressanes, 1948) out of print. Le mensonge d'Ulysse (Editions Bressanes, 1950) out of print. Le discours de la dernière chance (Editions de la Voix de la Paix, 1953) Introduction to a doctrine of peace. La Fin du règne de la peur (Editions de la Voix de la Paix, 1963). Une 3ème guerre mondiale pour du pétrole? (Editions de la Voix de la Paix, 1963) Le Parlement aux mains des banques (Contre-Courant, 1955) Candasse ou le huitième péché capital (L'Amitié par le Livre, 1955) Ulysse trahi par les siens (Librairie Française, 1961) Le mensonge d'Ulysse (Librairie Française, 5th ed., 1961) L'Equivoque révolutionnaire (Défense de 1'Homme, 1962) Le véritable procès Eichmann, ou Les Vainqueurs incorrigibles (Sept Couleurs, 1962) Translated abroad, in German and Spanish Le mensonge d'Ulysse, 1960 Ulysse trahi par les siens, 1961 – 4 – Le véritable procès Eichmann, ou Les Vainqueurs incorrigibles, 1963 The present volume in English is a revision and completion of these three works. In preparation: Partis et politiciens devant la guerre Le Troisième testament. History of the State of Israel. – 5 – INTRODUCTION 1867. European statesmen are trying to see Europe in terms of nationalities well defined by natural frontiers. On the other hand, the socialist movement (the Internationale) is ideologically committed to breaking down national barriers. Similarly the merchants value commercial contacts over and above the frontiers, natural or not. The merchants are the more practical. In striving towards their industrial and social objectives peoples cannot fail to learn to understand and respect each other. Statesmen encourage them in order to extend their influence, whilst the intellectuals do it on principle. Since 1850 the method of contact has been the universal exposition*: in 1851 in London, in 1855 in Paris, in 1862 again in London. In 1867 the venue reverted to Paris. In order that the foreign visitors could see something other than the exhibits assembled in the enclosure set up on the Champs de Mars, with an annexe on the island of Billancourt, in other words that it might be possible for them to make a far broader contact with France through the intermediary of Paris, the organisers of the exposition published a catalogue of all that there was to see, or at least all that they wished to be seen: Paris-Guide. The task of writing the preface for that kind of inventory of the riches of Paris was awarded to Victor Hugo. Here is the passage of that preface which summarised the them on which he wrote it: "In the twentieth century there will be an extraordinary nation. This nation will be large, but that will not keep it from being a free nation. It will be illustrious, rich, thinking, peaceful, cordial to the rest of humanity. It will have the gentle seriousness of an elder sister [...]. A battle between Italians and Germans, between Englishmen and Russians, between Prussians and Frenchmen will seem to it as a battle between Picards and Burgundians might appear to us. It will consider the waste of human blood as useless. Only with reservations will it approve an admiration for the war dead. The shrug of the shoulders that we give to the Inquisition it will give to war. It will look at the battlefield of Sadowa with the air with which we regard the Quemadero of Seville. It will regard as stupid the oscillation between victories, invariably ending in a dismal readjustment of the balance - Austerlitz always paid for by Waterloo. It will have about the same respect for authority that we have for orthodoxy; a court case will seem to it as a heresy trial seems to us and it will no more understand Béranger in a cell than Galileo in prison… [7] "A common language, common currency, unity of measure, unity of meridian, unity of law; the highest degree of free enterprise and incalculable profit, resulting in the abolition of parasitism; no more arms races, the gigantic expense of defence eliminated, the four billions which the permanent armies cost at the present left in the pockets of the citizens, the four million young conscripts re-assigned to commerce, agriculture and industry; everywhere the iron of the sword and chain reforged in the form of the plough; peace, the goddess with eight breasts, majestically seated in the midst of men… * In reality the idea came from earlier times; the first manifestation of this kind, although more modest because of its purely European character, took place in Prague in 1781. But, although it was followed by several others of the same nature organised in Paris under the First Empire, the Restoration and the reign of Louis-Philippe, the Napoleonic wars and their consequences resulted in a lack of universal appeal until 1851, in London. – 6 – "Instead of war, emulation. The rise of intelligence towards the dawn. Impatience for well-being reproving mistakes and fears. Every other anger disappeared. A people prodding the bowels of the night and extracting an immense clarity for the profit of humankind. That is what that nation will be. "And that nation will be called Europe. " The fact that the twentieth century in question, now in its second half, does feel itself threatened with the prospect of ending up in the middle of a Slavic Europe, or a Sovietised Europe, says enough of Victor Hugo's posthumous predictions, not to labour the point. The only thing necessary to comment upon concerning the great hope thus formulated is its intention and the manner of its expression. Especially the manner of its expression: the nationalities, the natural frontiers, German unity, Italian unity, etc. If one had pointed out to him that he did not make mention of these, I imagine that Hugo would have answered with the same shrug of the shoulders as if he had been asked to pronounce a definitive solution to the problem of the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, the Armagnacs and the Burgundians (Picards and Burgundians, as he says), of Richelieu and the House of Austria, of the Hundred Years War, or for all I know, the crowning of Clovis.
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