Meyer, Fritjof

In 2002 Meyer, a German mainstream journalist, published a semi-revisionist paper in a minor mainstream journal in which he “downgraded” Auschwitz not only by drastically reducing its alleged death toll, but also by decommissioning most of the homicidal gas chambers said to have been in operation in that camp. For this he drew fire from all side – by the orthodox for stepping over the line, and by revisionists for being neither fish nor flesh.

Since the end of World War II, authoritative claims about the character and scope of killings at the Auschwitz concentration camp have changed drastically. One particularly striking change concerns the various “official” estimates of the number of victims – a number that since 1945 has been steadily declining. Fritjof Meyer …

1. Significance of the controversy In my article "The Four Million Figure of Auschwitz: Origin, Revisions, and Consequences,"[1] I concluded an analysis of the history and consequences of Franciszek Piper's revision of the Soviet propaganda figure of 4 million deaths at Auschwitz with the following words: "Thus this 'critical …

In The Revisionist no. 1/2003, a series of articles on a new controversy over the death toll of the Auschwitz concentration camp was published under the title "Auschwitz: The Dwindling Death Toll" (pp. 18-37). This new controversy had been triggered by Fritjof Meyer, a leading journalist for Germany's largest news …

1. The Background In 1993, Jean-Claude Pressac published his second study on Auschwitz,[5] which provided even more grist to Revisionist mills than did his first study.[6] For this reason, Pressac's second book was devastated by Franciszek Piper, head of the history department of Auschwitz Museum, in a long …

It was not before 1989, that is 44 years after the liberation of the POW and concentration camp complex known as Auschwitz, that an international dispute started about the actual number of victims who had died in this camp complex. For 44 years, the Polish authorities and with them most …

1. Political and Psychological Observations: "Number of Auschwitz Victims: New Insights from Recent Archival Discoveries" This is the title of an article by Fritjof Meyer which appeared in the German periodical Osteuropa in May of 2002.[5] According to the article, Meyer, born in 1932, is a "Diploma DHP, Diploma …

David Irving addresses the 13th IHR Conference, May 28, 2000. A commentary by David Irving, issued in Sept. 2002, on Fritjof Meyer’s May 2002 Osteuropa article. In January 1995 the French news magazine L’Express reported that Auschwitz staff now admitted that the gas-chamber known as “Krema [Crematorium] I” (the one …

John C. Zimmerman, “Fritjof Meyer and the number of Auschwitz victims: a critical analysis”, Journal of Genocide Research, 6(2) (2004), pp. 249–266. The controversy about the number of victims of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz, triggered in 2002 by senior editor Fritjof Meyer of Germany’s largest news magazine Der …

Untruths and propaganda abound when it comes to the WWII German labor camp near the Polish town Auschwitz. Here are just a few: French biochemist G.Wellers claimed he exposed The Leuchter Report as fallacious, but in truth he exposed only his own grotesque incompetence; Polish researcher Prof. J. Markiewicz said …

Nel n°1/2003 della rivista The Revisionist venne pubblicata una serie di articoli sulla controversia riguardante il numero dei morti di Auschwitz. Tale controversia era stata provocata da Fritjof Meyer, un importante giornalista della più diffusa rivista tedesca, Der Spiegel. In risposta il Museo di Auschwitz pubblicò una confutazione della tesi di Meyer, che replicò a sua volta. L’articolo seguente fornisce un’attenta valutazione della vicenda...

                    Dopo la lettura della sentenza del processo Stormfront l'avvocato Daniele Stoppello che assisteva il giornalista pasqua marco (1) ha dichiarato: «Questa sentenza...sigilla un principio cardine: la diffusione di interpretazioni alternative e deliranti a fatti drammatici come la Shoah non può essere contrabbandata come …

1 LE NUOVE REVISIONI DI FRITJOF MEYER Posted on 22 ottobre 2010 Una colpa essenziale di Pressac era quella di avere involontariamente distrutto con le sue ricerche il fragile impianto argomentativo che i cultori dell’Olocausto avevano faticosamente costruito nel corso di decenni. La storiografia ufficiale riteneva e in parte ritiene …

. Aprile 2003  AUSCHWITZ: LE NUOVE REVISIONI DI FRITJOF MEYER   Carlo Mattogno   Jean-Claude Pressac                                                             1) Gli antefatti Nel …