By Serge Thion ∙ November 1, 1997
Serge Thion, born in 1942, has devoted some 30 years to study, analysis and writing on social, economic and political issues, particularly in agrarian societies. He received a doctorate in sociology from the Paris Sorbonne in 1967. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, half of them dealing with Southeast Asia, and several books,…
By Serge Thion ∙ July 1, 1994
Editors 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, p. 73) commented that Pressac…
By Serge Thion ∙ October 24, 1998
Dr. Münch, 87, “gave” a testimony to Bruno Schirra, an “independent” journalist; it was published in Der Spiegel on Sept. 26, 1998. He has been a SS physician in Auschwitz in 1943 and after. The greatest suspicion should be exercised before accepting this statement, mostly because the son of the old man wrote to the…
By Serge Thion ∙ July 16, 1998
The aspects which link modern-day gas to the magic weapons of tales and legends are its invisibility and its supposed omnipotence. Frightening powers are attributed to it, and the terror that its use evokes arises from the impossibility of predicting it. Other substances, equally magical and mysterious, have sprung forth in full force from the…
By Serge Thion ∙ January 1, 1993
I The text below [1] was intended to be the foreword to the Arabic edition of the book, “Historical Truth or Political Truth?”, scheduled to appear at the end of 1982. That publication project, and the translation into Arabic, was undertaken by a group of Lebanese militants, without the knowledge of the authors, except at…
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