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.

On the Background of CODOH’s “Campus Project”, and Pressac’s 1989 book on Auschwitz (1992, 1:14:21 min)

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…

Lipstadt, Alternative Facts and Northwestern University.

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…

The Basement Showers of Crematorium III

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…

Wartime Germany’s Anti-Gas Air Raid Shelters

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…

'The Jewish World” Against Pressac

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…

French Court Fines Faurisson, Roques for “Holocaust Denial” Book

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…

Further Drastic Changes in the “Official” View of Auschwitz and Other Wartime Camps

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….

French Court Fines Faurisson, Roques for Revisionist Book

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 Jean-Claude Pressac sur le problème…

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