To the impartial observer, a confession by an individual claimed to have assisted in the perpetration the Holocaust sounds very convincing, whereas a denial elicits only sneers. This section deals with persons who were on the side of the alleged perpetrators and who either confessed or denied – or sometimes both. What are these confessions or denials worth?
By Carlo Mattogno ∙ July 1, 1989
Introduction The story of the Auschwitz gas chambers begins, notoriously, with the experimental gassing of approximately 850 individuals, which supposedly took place in the underground cells of Block 11 within the main camp on September 3, 1941. Danuta Czech in Kalendarium der Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau (Calendar of Events in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau), describes…
By Jacques Lebailly, Michel De Boüard ∙ October 1, 1988
This interview, which originally appeared in the French newspaper, Ouest-France (August I-2, 1986) has been translated from the French journal Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaire [Review of Modern and Contemporary History], tome xxxiv, January-March 1987. The original was written by Jacques Lebailly. When a member of the [French] Institute, with a brilliant career as a…
By Henri Roques ∙ April 1, 1988
On February 21, 1979, the newspaper Le Monde, the Paris daily, published a text titled “The Hitler Policy of Extermination A Declaration by Historians.” This declaration, whose style was intended to be solemn and whose conclusions were meant to be irrefutable, had been drafted by two persons: Léon Poliakov, former director of research at the…
By Robert A. Hall ∙ April 1, 1986
Il Rapporto Gerstein: Anatomia Di Un Falso [The Gerstein Report: The Anatomy of a Fraud], by Carlo Mattogno. Sentinella d'Italia (Via Buonarroti, 4, Monfalcone, Italy), 1985; 243 pp. Italians have a special reason for being sensitive with regard to the allegations contained in the report made in 1945 by the SS officer Kurt Gerstein in…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ April 1, 1988
Shoah. Directed by Claude Lanzmann. Produced by Les Films Aleph, Historia Films with the French Ministry of Culture. Cinematographers: Dominique Chapuls, Jimmy Glasberg, William Lubehansky. Editors: Ziva Postec, Anna Ruiz. Running time: Part I, 4 hours, 33 minutes. Part II, 4 hours, 50 minutes. Shoah is a Hebrew word which means catastrophe. It has become…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ April 1, 1988
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust. The Complete Text of the Film, by Claude Lanzmann. Preface by Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by A. Whitelaw and W. Byron. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, xii + 200 pp. hb, $11.95, ISBN 0-394-55142-7. Since Shoah the movie rolled on for a seemingly interminable nine and a half…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1984
Albert Speer may ultimately be best remembered as the only high German wartime official to be “rehabilitated” during his lifetime and even profit handsomely from his once-powerful position. The one-time Hitler confidant and Reich Armaments Minister escaped the hangman’s noose at Nuremberg by adopting an unusual defense strategy. While maintaining that he personally knew nothing…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ July 1, 1985
Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police, edited by Jochen von Lang in collaboration with Claus Sibyll. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1983, 293pp. The kidnapping, trial, and execution of Adolf Eichmann, the German officer alleged by the Israelis to have played a central…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ July 1, 1981
Some SS men have confessed that there were some "gas chambers" at Auschwitz or at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The three most important confessions are those of Rudolf Höss, of Pery Broad and, finally, of Professor Doctor Johann Paul Kremer. For a long time the Exterminationists have especially counted on the first of these confessions: that of Rudolf…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ December 1, 1986
Rudolf Höss was the first of three successive commandants of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He is often called “the Commandant of Auschwitz,” and the general public knows of him from a book published under the title Commandant in Auschwitz. He appeared before the International Military Tribunal as a witness on 15 April 1946, where his…
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