Language:
French
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
History and Theory; Studies in the Philosophy of History
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,2 (1989) 173-197
Keywords:
Faurisson, Robert
;
Holocaust denial
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Argues that French historical revisionism evolved as an attempt to liberate the Western conscience from the oppression caused by the genocide of the Jews. Mentions the contribution of two founders of French Holocaust revisionism, Maurice Bardèche and Paul Rassinier, and their influence on Robert Faurisson, Henri Roques, and other right-wing revisionists. Discusses the main arguments and tendencies of the extreme-left revisionists (Pierre Guillaume and the La Vieille Taupe group). Their Marxist explanation of the Holocaust, during the 1960s, implied that the Jews were eliminated by the German capitalists since they belonged to the petty and middle bourgeoisie and were considered useless to the processes of production. Later they also argued that the gas chambers did not exist. Affirms that the spread of revisionist theories and of Holocaust denial has been encouraged by current antisemitic and anti-Israel tendencies in France.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Lignes" 2 (1988).
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