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Auschwitz Plain Facts, a Response to Jean-Claude Pressac from Germar Rudolf With two major works on the Auschwitz concentration camp, GGermarermar RRudolfudolf ((ed.)ed.) French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac attempted to refute revisionists with their own technical methods. Whereas his fi rst work remained rather obscure, Pressac’s second book on “The Technique of Mass Murder” was praised by the main- AAuschwitz:uschwitz: stream in Europe, who proclaimed victory over the revision- ists. They did not reckon with the revisionists’ rebuttal… In Auschwitz: Plain Facts, Pressac’s works are subjected to PPlainlain FFactsacts a detailed and devastating critique by leading revisionist scholars. Although Pressac deserves credit for having made accessible many hitherto unknown documents, his writings could not refute the revisionists, because Pressac violated many scientifi c principles: He made claims that he either could not prove or which contradict the facts. Many docu- ments he quoted do not state what he claimed they do. Most importantly, he did not pay any attention to “the technique” of the mass murder at issue, as his books claim. They neither contain references to technical or scientifi c literature, nor any technical consideration at all. In fact, he reveals such a mas- AUSCHWITZ: PLAIN FACTS sive technical incompetence that his works belong to the cat- • egory of novels rather than history. Despite these defi ciencies, Pressac is still hailed as the savior of the Auschwitz-Holocaust by the mainstream. Auschwitz: Plain Facts is a must read for all those who want to argue against the lies and half truths of established historiography. A ResponseResponse toto Jean-ClaudeJean-Claude PressacPressac ISSN 1529–7748 WWithith CContributionsontributions byby RobertRobert Faurisson,Faurisson, ISBN 978–1–59148–020–5 ISBN 978-1-59148-020-5 HHOLOCAUSTOLOCAUST HHandbooksandbooks SeriesSeries CCarloarlo MMattogno,attogno, GGermarermar RRudolf,udolf, aandnd SSergeerge TThionhion 90000> VVolumeolume 1144 Rudolf Germar TThesesheses & DissertationsDissertations PPressress PPOO BBoxox 225776857768 CChicago,hicago, IILL 660625,0625, UUSASA 9781591 480204 AUSCHWITZ: PLAIN FACTS Auschwitz: Plain Facts A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac Edited by Germar Rudolf With Contributions by Robert Faurisson, Carlo Mattogno, Germar Rudolf, and Serge Thion Theses & Dissertations Press PO Box 257768, Chicago, Illinois 60625 September 2005 HOLOCAUST Handbooks Series, vol. 14: Germar Rudolf (ed.): Auschwitz: Plain Facts. A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac. The contribution by C. Mattogno (Italian) was translated by Anne Sharp, the contributions by R. Faurisson (French) and Germar Rudolf (German) by Mi- chael Humphrey, the contribution by Serge Thion by himself and Mark We- ber. Chicago (Illinois): Theses & Dissertations Press, Imprint of Castle Hill Publishers, September 2005 ISBN: 1-59148-020-5 ISSN: 1529-7748 © for each contribution by the individual authors Distribution Australia/Asia: Peace Books, PO Box 3300, Norwood, 5067, Australia Distribution Rest of World: Castle Hill Publishers UK: PO Box 118, Hastings TN34 3ZQ USA: PO Box 257768, Chicago, IL 60625 Set in Times New Roman. www.vho.org www.tadp.org If these sites are being censored, try it with www.anonymizer.com Cover illustrations: top: Jean-Claude Pressac; left: title page of J.-C. Pressac’s second book, original French edition; bottom: photo of the disinfestation facil- ity in the gypsy camp at Auschwitz; right: letter by the Topf company to the Central Construction Office Auschwitz re. gas testers (see 183 of this book). 5 Table of Contents Page Preface ..............................................................................................................9 By Germar Rudolf 1. The End of Jean-Claude Pressac ..............................................................9 2. Should there Be Freedom for Revisionism?...........................................10 3. Unrestricted Research and Revision: Basis of Science ..........................11 4. Toward Freedom of Expression .............................................................15 5. Battle Zone “Common Knowledge” ......................................................16 6. On the Defense of Human Rights...........................................................18 Pressac and the German Public....................................................................21 By Germar Rudolf 1. The Claim...............................................................................................21 1.1. The Media ................................................................................................ 21 1.2. The Judicial System ................................................................................. 24 1.3. The Historians.......................................................................................... 26 2. The Reality .............................................................................................27 2.1. The Scientific Basis.................................................................................. 27 2.2. Technology and Physical Science ............................................................ 28 2.3. Historiography ......................................................................................... 29 3. The Evaluation .......................................................................................29 3.1. The Press.................................................................................................. 29 3.2. Justice....................................................................................................... 32 3.3. Historians ................................................................................................. 33 4. The Freedom of Science.........................................................................33 History by Night or in Fog? ..........................................................................37 By Serge Thion The Reception of Pressac ............................................................................48 Reply to Jean-Claude Pressac on the Problem of the Gas Chambers ......59 By Robert Faurisson Note to the Reader.......................................................................................59 Foreword .....................................................................................................60 1. Introduction ............................................................................................63 1.1. Neither a Photograph nor a Drawing........................................................ 63 1.2. Nothing of a Novelty................................................................................ 63 1.3. Auschwitz: 800,000 Dead Instead of Nine Million.................................. 64 1.4. Pressac no Longer Believes in “Wannsee,” but he still Believes in Hitler ........................................................................................................ 65 1.5. The Theory of “Casual Gassings”............................................................ 65 1.6. Pressac’s Promises and Reality................................................................ 66 6 Germar Rudolf (ed.), Auschwitz: Plain Facts 2. The Obvious Facts that Pressac Could not Ignore..................................68 2.1. “Wannsee” is no Longer “Wannsee” ....................................................... 68 2.2. Not much Could be Secret about Auschwitz............................................ 68 2.3. The Archives Have Survived in Very Great Number............................... 69 2.4. 1972, the two Chief Architects Had to Be Acquitted............................... 69 2.5. Typhus Epidemics Combated through the Use of Zyklon B.................... 70 2.6. Cremation: a Hygienic Measure............................................................... 72 2.7. Crematories Planned without Homicidal Gas Chambers ......................... 72 2.8. Other Obvious Facts that he Could not Fail to Mention........................... 73 3. Realities that Pressac Never Mentions ...................................................74 3.1. Neither a Photograph nor a Plan of Crematory I...................................... 74 3.2. No Photograph of the “Gas Chamber” of Crematory II ........................... 74 3.3. Not a Word about the Forensic Studies.................................................... 75 3.4. Not one Complete Photograph from The Auschwitz Album ..................... 75 3.5. Not a Word about the Aerial Reconnaissance Photos .............................. 76 3.6. Not a Word about the Morgue Corpse Register (Leichenhallenbuch) ..... 76 3.7. Other Documents Passed over in Silence................................................. 77 3.8. Other Silences .......................................................................................... 77 4. Expedients that Pressac Borrows from other Historians ........................78 4.1. Unsubstantiated Assertion........................................................................ 78 4.2. Recourse to Unverified Testimonies ........................................................ 79 4.3. Deciphering the Code............................................................................... 82 4.4. The “Slips” and “Bungles” of the SS ....................................................... 83 5. Deceits that are Pressac’s own ...............................................................86 5.1. Improper Insertions .................................................................................. 86 5.2. Marrying a Big Lie to a Small Truth.......................................................
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