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.
By Germar Rudolf ∙ February 13, 2019
In 2017, a German publishing company asked me to contribute a thorough introduction to a reprint edition of Jean-Claude Pressac’s 1989 book of the same title. Unfortunately, this German publisher went out of business in late 2018, so no such reprint ever appeared. My introduction is still valuable, though; hence I published it in January…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ October 23, 1992
Prof. Arthur Butz speaks at the 11th Conference of the Institute for Historical Review in 1992 with an introduction by Mark Weber. Professor Butz gives a background to Bradley Smith’s/CODOH’s Campus Project (first 20 minutes), and his critical remarks on Jean-Claude Pressac’s 1989 book Auschwitz: Technuqie and Operation of the Gas Chambers (New York: Beate…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ December 22, 1997
This book can be purchased from various sources, see at www.findbookprices.com. Below posted is the 1999 pre-publication version of this book. A later version of 2000: The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes
By Fred A. Leuchter ∙ June 11, 1988
By David Merlin ∙ May 4, 2017
There is a certain amount of irony in Professor Deborah Lipstadt's lecture on "Alternative Facts;” given the amount of misinformation surrounding the Irving v. Penguin Trial. What was the Trial Really About? Lipstadt and her supporters have loudly proclaimed that the trial “proved the Holocaust.” That is not accurate. Judge Gray specifically stated: “It is…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ July 1, 2001
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. For six years he worked…
By Samuel Crowell ∙ December 15, 1999
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 Gas Chambers, that he was…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
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 Washington, DC. In the 1994…
By Robert Faurisson, Mark Weber ∙ November 1, 1995
Concluding a dramatic trial that included stunning testimony by a leading Holocaust researcher, a Paris court in June ordered two French revisionists to pay fines of $3,000 each for writing and distributing a book that disputes claims of Second World War mass killings in German gas chambers. (A brief report on this case appeared in…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ November 1, 1995
In the special March-April 1995 issue of the French magazine Historia, pages 114-125, Jean-Claude Pressac, a drugstore pharmacist in the Paris area, offers us an “Inquiry into the death camps.” Until the third column of page 119, he is content to recall the thesis he developed in his widely acclaimed 1993 work Les Crématoires d'Auschwitz….
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