Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; Working Papers and Addenda
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 2187-2198
Keywords:
Rassinier, Paul
;
Faurisson, Robert
;
Roques, Henri
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Holocaust denial
;
Anti-Jewish propaganda
Abstract:
Describes the development of Holocaust denial in postwar France. Paul Rassinier was preoccupied with the theme of an international Jewish conspiracy, and from 1950 (until his death in 1967) he published books contending that the horrors of the concentration camps were highly exaggerated and that the excesses which did occur were mainly the work of kapos and communists. Describes the "Faurisson Affair", marked by arguments and responses in the press between 1979-82 in which Robert Faurisson denied the existence of the gas chambers (and, by implication, the Holocaust). A series of lawsuits were brought against him on behalf of the victims of Nazism. Each time he was convicted, but in April 1983 the Court of Appeal in Paris suspended the proceedings, contending that the courts are not qualified to pass judgment on the worth of historical works. Discusses, also, the revisionism of the extreme-left publishing house La Vieille Taupe, the Henri Roques affair, the revival of revisionist propaganda during the Barbie trial, and other manifestations of an international movement to restore Nazism. Examines the principal points raised by revisionists and their contradiction in the available sources.
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