By Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet ∙ August 24, 1992
Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian and a dogmatic, at times vitriolic defender of the orthodox Holocaust narrative.
View all postsBibliographic information about this document: Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet, A Paper Eichmann. Anatomy of a Lie. This article has been translated by Jeffrey Mehlman in Assassins of Memory (NY: Columbia University Press, 1992
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