Robert Faurisson

For more than 20 years, Robert Faurisson was Europe's foremost Holocaust revisionist scholar. He was born on January 25, 1929, in Shepperton, England. His father was French and his mother was Scottish. He was educated at a Lycée in Paris, and at the renowned Sorbonne. He received his "State Doctorate" in letters and the humanities from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also taught from 1969 to 1974. From 1974 until 1990, Faurisson was a professor of French literature at the University of Lyon II. He is a recognized specialist of text and document analysis, and is the author of four books on French literature. After years of private research and study, Dr. Faurisson first made public his skeptical views about the Holocaust extermination story in two items published in December 1978 and January 1979 in the influential Paris daily Le Monde.

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Robert Faurisson. Because of my press release of 19 April 1996 (See p. 4-5 of “An Assessment of the Garaudy/Abbe Pierre Affair,” January—October 1996) I was immediately indicted. For many reasons, my trial was twice postponed. It will start on 25 September in Paris. The presiding judge said to my …

Because CODOHWeb is publishing new revisionist scholarship, Smith’s Report is in the enviable position of being able to announce new revisionist work to its readers long before they will have heard of it from other quarters. The downside is that we do not have enough space in SR to print …

Robert Faurisson In SR (Winter 1995, p. 6-7), you reported the visit to the Struthof “gas chamber” by David Cole and five other people. May I remind your readers that this “gas chamber” is the only one which enjoyed a real and complete expertise ordered by the accusers of Germany? …

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ROBERT FAURISSON Your editor mis-reads a handwritten note from Professor Faurisson. Just received Smith’s Report #25 (August 1995) where you published an open letter of mine on my recent trial and on the court decision of June 13, 1995. You made a frightening mistake. I never said “Nevertheless, I forced …

Historical revisionism is the great intellectual adventure of the end of the 20th century. Despite its size, the present handbook offers only a glimpse of that adventure; and so it seems necessary here first to specify the precise historical problem upon which the Revisionists have concentrated their research, then how …

1. Summary[*] Eyewitness testimony must always be verified. There are two essential means of verifying such testimony in criminal cases: confronting the account with the material elements (in particular, with expertise as to the crime weapon), and the detailed cross-examination of the witness on what he/she purports to have …

Robert Faurisson is acknowledged as Europe's leading Holocaust Revisionist. He was educated at the Paris Sorbonne, and served as associate professor at the University of Lyon in France from 1974 until 1990. Dr. Faurisson has addressed several IHR conferences, and many of his numerous essays and reviews on the Holocaust …

RÉSUMÉ : Un témoignage doit toujours être vérifié. Il existe deux moyens essentiels de vérifier un témoignage en matière criminelle : la confrontation du témoignage avec les éléments matériels (en particulier avec l'expertise de l'arme du crime) et le contre-interrogatoire minutieux du témoin sur ce qu'il prétend avoir vu. Or, …

8 juin 1996 Hier, avec Garaudy, c'était du gâteau. Avec l'abbé Pierre, c'était pain bénit. Et, avec Régine, ça fumait. Aujourd'hui, avec les nageuses olympiques, ça baigne. Avec la prof de chimie, ça gaze. Et, avec la zizanie des intellos du Monde , c'est la vie en rose. Et demain …

Dans sa livraison de juin 1991, le mensuel Le Choc du mois publiait une étude intitulée : Milices juives / Quinze ans de terrorisme (p. 7-13 sur quatre colonnes). Le sous-titre en était le suivant : Groupe d'action juive, Organisation juive de combat, Organisation juive de défense Sous ces diverses …

L’Inconnue (XXX) : Robert Faurisson, depuis bientôt trente ans, vous défrayez la chronique par votre opiniâtreté dans un combat solitaire pour des idées qui vous sont très personnelles et que nous ne commenterons pas ici ; elles sont suffisamment glosées ailleurs. Je vous propose de faire connaître au public d’autres …

Am 14. März 1995 veröffentlichte Michael Shermer, Direktor der »Skeptics Society« und des Skeptic Magazine, einen »Offenen Brief an Holocaust-Revisionisten«, in dem er einen Abschnitt von mehr als 300 Wörtern einem Gespräch widmete, das wir im September 1994 in Irvine (California) auf meine Anregung hin miteinander geführt hatten. Er schickte …

Summary Elie Wiesel passes for one of the most celebrated eyewitnesses to the alleged Holocaust. Yet in his supposedly autobiographical book Night, he makes no mention of gas chambers. He claims instead to have witnessed Jews being burned alive, a story now dismissed by all historians. Wiesel gives credence to …

On Saturday, June 21, [2003] chemical engineer (Dipl. Ing.) Wolfgang Fröhlich, 51, was arrested in Vienna, Austria, and taken to prison. His trial could last two days, as the public prosecutor wishes, or as long as two or three weeks, as his attorney, Dr. Herbert Schaller, hopes. For seven years, …

The “Holocaust” is often characterized as the greatest crime in the history of mankind. Yet for 44 years not a single forensic investigation into this alleged crime has ever been undertaken. This changed in 1988, when Fred A. Leuchter, at that time the only U.S. expert for execution technologies, was …

Editor's Remark When it comes to arguing about the correct number of victims of the concentration camp Auschwitz, many people often rely on usually unreliable newspaper articles written by journalists who hardly have any competence in the matter they are writing about. For this reason, Prof. Dr. Faurisson has compiled …

The U.S. government considers itself in a state of worldwide war against what it calls international terrorism. It entered into war against Iraq because, according to them, Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which threatened the United States. In support of this charge, the Americans have not, up to …

At times, in a debate of ideas, an attack on the person of the adversary can be justified if, explicitly or implicitly, this type of attack is preceded or accompanied by an argumentation on the substance. On the other hand, a pure and simple ad hominem argument, without further ado, …

An presentation by French revisionist Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson. Length: 118 minutes 7 seconds. Among the topics treated by Pr. Robert Faurisson Comments on his 'hot reception' at the Stockholm airport and on numerous previous attacks he was submitted in France from Jewish organizations. Pr. Faurisson exposes his views on …

1. Introduction Dr. Robert Faurisson in Treblinka, June 1988. With regard to the wartime Treblinka camp, I have mentioned over the years – in a few conference addresses, in a video presentation, and in some correspondence – the testimony of Marian Olszuk. But because I have been absorbed in the …

On September 17, 2000, Sylvain Cypel, in the leading French daily newspaper Le Monde, devoted an article to Jesse Owens, the American mulatto who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin ("1936, à Berlin, l'Aryen 'Lutz' devient l'ami de Jesse, le métis" – "1936, at Berlin, …

Is it not simply wondrous to be told the same lie twice by the same people and for the same purpose at nearly sixty years’ distance? In January 1944, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to create, on the advice of the Jew Henry Morgenthau and his cohorts, the so-called …

Among all those who make statements, speeches, or use sentences in which the expression “gas chamber” appears, how many of those people actually know what they are talking about? It has not taken me very long to realize that many people commit one of the most glaring errors. These people …

The following letters were mailed to the editor of the New Statesman, 10 Great Turnstile, London WC1V 7HJ, Great Britain, following the publication of an article attacking Revisionism on 2 November 1979, by Gitta Sereny. 18 November 1979 Dear Sir: In general Gitta Sereny's few substantive arguments (NS, 2 November) …

The Tribunal shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence …— Article 19 of the Statutes of the International Military Tribunal (in reality: the Inter-allied Military Tribunal) at Nuremberg The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge, but shall take judicial notice thereof …— Article 21 …

It has to be now admitted that finally there is no proof, no evidence whatsoever that the Nazi gas chambers ever existed, claims French "historian and novelist" Jacques Baynac. Extremely hostile to revisionists and especially to Robert Faurisson (with whom he had a dispute in October 1980) and a friend …

At the time of the fifth international Revisionist Conference sponsored by the Institute for Historical Review, held in Los Angeles on 3–5 September 1983, I had the pleasure of meeting David Irving for the first time. Unfortunately, our meeting was too short. We had a brief conversation, and then I …

To Ditlieb Felderer For a period of four years my publisher, Pierre Guillaume, his friends, and I faced considerable difficulties because of our common opinion about the myth of the gas chambers and the genocide of the Jews. Among those difficulties was first and foremost judicial repression. That repression has …

Introduction Pierre Vidal-Naquet is professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School of Higher Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris and has been a very determined adversary of mine. He has attacked me in the academic and journalistic worlds and even in the courts. Along with …

Shoah. Directed by Claude Lanzmann. Produced by Les Films Aleph, Historia Films with the French Ministry of Culture. Cinematographers: Dominique Chapuls, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubehansky. Editors: Ziva Postec, Anna Ruiz. Running time: Part I, 4 hours, 33 minutes. Part II, 4 hours, 50 minutes. Shoah is a Hebrew word which …

Dr. Faurisson wrote the first part of this article as a challenge to the Exterminationist scholars who participated in a colloquium at the Sorbonne which took place from December 11 to December 13, 1987. The colloquium had been summoned by Alain Devaquet, France's former minister of research and higher education, …

Despite the May 11 conviction of Revisionist activist and publisher Ernst Zündel in Toronto for "knowingly and injuriously spreading a false report," the second trial of Ernst Zündel was a Pyrrhic victory for Holocaust Exterrninationists. As in Zündel’s 1985 trial, Revisionist scholars and researchers presented a mass of new evidence …

On May 13, 1988, Ernst Zündel was sentenced by Judge Ronald Thomas of the District Court of Ontario, in Toronto, to nine months in prison for having distributed a Revisionist booklet that is now 14 years old: Did Six Million Really Die? Ernst Zündel lives in Toronto where, up until …

What is usually called the "Faurisson Affair" began on 16 November 1978 with the publication of an article about me in the newspaper Le Matin de Paris. For several years I had realized that as soon as the press made public my opinions about Revisionism I would encounter a storm …