Pressac, Jean-Claude

Once a revisionist, Pressac changed sides in the mid-1980s, when he started writing mainstream papers and books claiming to confirm the homicidal nature of the notorious Auschwitz camp. Although Pressac never addressed any revisionist argument directly, his works were clearly aimed at refuting them. Yet as the papers in this section show, Pressac’s efforts fail to convince.

In his monumental study Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers,[1] Jean-Claude Pressac proposes a "critical study of the War Refugee Board' report of November 1944 on KL Auschwitz-Birkenau" (pp. 459-468), purporting to "demonstrate the authenticity of the Rosenberg/Wetzler testimonies regarding Krematorien of type II/III" (p. 459), the …

When Jean-Claude Pressac suddenly died at the early age of 59 on the 23rd of July 2003, I was deeply moved. I had never met him personally; however, on account of his important role in the 'Holocaust' controversy, I had been involved with him since 1991, when I began my …

(Presented at the Eleventh IHR Conference, October 1992) Why Another Critique? Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he is …

1) L'interpretazione di Jean-Claude Pressac. Lo studio di un documento può portare a conclusioni storicamente certe soltanto a condizione che esso venga ricollocato nel suo contesto, non solo storico, ma anche documentario, burocratico ed eventualmente tecnico. Una insufficiente conoscenza del contesto o un'errata contestualizzazione portano inevitabilmente al travisamento del significato …

Editor’s introduction Considerable attention has been devoted during the past year to a book on “The Crematories of Auschwitz” by French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac. Published in September 1993, it has been widely praised for providing definitive proof that the “Holocaust deniers” are wrong. For example, The New Yorker (Nov. 15, …

Carlo Mattogno, a specialist in text analysis and critique, is Italy's foremost Holocaust revisionist scholar. Born in 1951 in Orvieto, Italy, he has carried out advanced linguistic studies in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He is the author of numerous books and monographs, several of which have been published in this …

"In Memoriam!" Introduction A few years ago the argument began to emerge that the various gastight fixtures of the Birkenau crematoria were best explained in terms of protection against chemical warfare. The first exploration in this area was by Arthur R. Butz of Northwestern University, whose "Vergasungskeller" article of July …

I. Kriterien der Wissenschaftlichkeit Die in einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit aufgestellten Thesen müssen durch eine eigene kritische Beweisführung oder durch Quellenverweise belegt sein und sie müssen der Kritik gegenläufiger Thesen ausgesetzt werden. Ob die im Titel angesprochenen Bücher Pressacs diesen Anforderungen genügen, wird nachfolgend untersucht. II. Beweisführung und Quellenverweise Pressac führt …

For writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of mass killings in German gas chambers during World War II, two French revisionist scholars have been ordered by a Paris court to pay fines of $3,000 each. The offending 90-page book, written by Prof. Robert Faurisson, is entitled Reponse a …

Regarding "Le macchine dello sterminio Auschwitz 1941-1945"; the Italian book purporting to be a translation of the original French book by Jean-Claude Pressac, "Les Crematoires d'Auschwitz: La machinerie du meuertre de masse." 1. The New Thesis of Jean-Claude Pressac In the section headed The Extermination of Hungarian Jews in our …

Samuel Crowell is the pen name of an American writer who describes himself as a “moderate revisionist.” At the University of California (Berkeley) he studied philosophy, foreign languages (including German, Polish, Russian, and Hungarian), and history, including Russian, German,and German-Jewish history. He continued his study of history at Columbia University. …

In early 1988, American execution hardware expert Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., carried out the first-ever forensic investigation of the alleged extermination gas chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek. His sensational conclusion – that these structures were never used as gas chambers to kill people – set off an international controversy …

As Journal readers know, Jean-Claude Pressac is a French pharmacist who has been used by the French "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in their campaign against the Holocaust revisionists. Their relationship has been confirmed by Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Research Institute of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in …

As Holocaust historians concede, hard evidence for mass killings in Second World War gas chambers has proven to be elusive. After an extensive search, especially of wartime German wartime records held in Polish archives, French author Jean-Claude Pressac acknowledged in his detailed 1989 study, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the …

In May of 1993 great doings were afoot at Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart. One of the young PhD candidates there had become involved in a scandal, which was making news throughout Germany. The name of the PdD candidate was Germar Rudolf, the author of these lines. …

On February 17th, 2001 I drove my rental car from Le Vesinet - where I was visiting friends - down to La Ville du Bois, about a two hour drive on a nice, sunny afternoon to drop in at Jean-Claude Pressac's pharmacy and hope to find and meet him at …

The French author Jean-Claude Pressac has written a monumental work – 564 pages in large format, with hundreds of photographs, plans, sketches, drawings and reproduced documents on the creation, utilization and destruction of seven Auschwitz-Birkenau installations which supposedly once housed execution gas chambers. J.-C. Pressac carried out an exhaustive on-site …

Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers. Jean-Claude Pressac. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation; 1989. Jean-Claude Pressac’s massive study of the homicidal gas chambers of Auschwitz and Birkenau appeared two years ago. Had it actually presented the slightest proof for the existence of the alleged gas chambers, media …

Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers. Jean-Claude Pressac. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation; 1989. The lessons of a soccer field and a swimming pool In 1983, Klarsfeld and Pressac published a French version of the Auschwitz Album (published by Le Seuil).[8] Pressac drew up a misleading …

The Great Holocaust Trial. Expanded, Third Commemorative Edition, by Michael A. Hoffman II. New York: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1995. Softcover. 144 pages. Notes. Bibliography. $12.95. ISBN 0-929903-05-6. This volume can be purchased from: "Remarks", PO Box 234, Aurora, NY 13026-0234, USA for $20.00. The Great Holocaust Trial is the sort …

The personal residence of Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höß. Note small gas-proof shutter (Blende) to the right of the door. Introduction It is well known that, although poison gas was used extensively in World War One, it was not used in World War Two. As a result, we tend to …

Al professor Robert Faurisson spetta il merito incontestabile di essere stato il primo ricercatore che abbia impostato sul piano tecnico lo studio del problema delle presunte camere a gas omicide con particolare riferimento al campo di Auschwitz-Birkenau. Rilevando che nessun tribunale,durante gli innumerevoli processi contro i cosiddetti " criminali di …

Historien de la nuit » nous dit Le Monde, en présentant les travaux d'un « amateur », pharmacien le jour.[1] L'un des plus constants reproches adressés il y a une douzaine d'années aux révisionnistes, celui d'être des « historiens amateurs » est soudainement présenté comme une qualité qui garantirait …

With two major works on the Auschwitz concentration camp, French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac tried to refute revisionists with their own technical methods. Whereas his first work remained rather obscured, Pressac's second book on The Technique of Mass Murder was praised by the mainstream in Europe, and they proclaimed victory over …

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 …

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 …

In 1993 Jewish theologian Deborah Lipstadt called British historian David Irving a “Holocaust denier.” Irving sued her for libel in return. Subsequently a court case unfolded in England which attracted the attention of the world’s mass media in 2000. The sharpest weapon in Lipstadt’s defense arsenal was Jewish art historian …

LA BUFALA DELLE CAMERE A GAS Scritto da Gianluca Freda Martedì 22 Maggio 2007 15:33 Facendo le veci dell’Università italiana, offro a Robert Faurisson lo spazio che il rettore Mattioli e il ministro Mussi gli hanno negato e traduco qui in italiano un suo articolo uscito sul Journal of Historical …

Collasso del numero dei morti di Auschwitz... nel tempo Testo in Francese del Prof. Faurisson dove vengono elencati, in ordine decrescente, i "numeri" dei pretesi morti nel campo di Auschwitz..."Dato" di partenza 9.000.000, dato attuale 356.000 "gasati"!...in pratica 1/25 volte il dato di partenza! Ciò, inequivocabilmente, dimostra l'assoluta INATTENDIBILITA' di …

L'Au$chwitz SpA  della i$arel-lobby metastatizza anche la Russia porterà in tribunale speciale, per negazionismo, anche Michail Sergeevič Gorbačëv,  Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв?    shpigel boris,Шпигель Борис Исаакович Il Il progetto russo di legge antirevisionista procede nel suo cammino. Il  progetto, ricordiamolo, è opera del Sig. shpigel boris, Шпигель Борис Исаакович,che è stato, nel 2007,  president …

.   "Destinazione Auschwitz": una favola multimediale .   Carlo Mattogno   In concomitanza con la "Giornata della Memoria, 27 gennaio 2002", l'editore Proedi di Milano ha pubblicato un libro intitolato Album visivo della Shoah. Destinazione Auschwitz. Ricorda che questo è stato, che rappresenta l'aspetto cartaceo del CD-Rom "Destinazione Auschwitz". Il libro …