Faurisson's challenge to the Swedish medias...
Excerpt from a 1992 transmission with Robert Faurisson in Radio Islam
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The title was: "My Challenge to
the Swedish media". And this challenge looked very simple. It was:
"Please, show me or draw me a Nazi gas chamber."
I got interested myself 32
years ago in what is called Revisionism. I read at that time Paul
Rassinier. And since then I have read thousands of books, hundreds of
documents about this story of the Holocaust of the Jews. And I have
wanted to see what is true and what is not true. What is exact, and
what is not exact about what the Jews suffered. If I had to sum it up
I would say that what is true is: There was a persecution of the
Jews. It's quite true that there were deportations, concentration
camps. Even that there were massacres. Because I do not know of any
wars without massacres. I think that it is true that there were of
course ghettos, concentration camps, labour camps and so on. But what
we contest is that there was something else and much worse than that.
Because, I'm sorry to say, concentration camps are something which
exists today. Which has always existed.
But, what we contest is what is
added on to this. And what is added is that there was a plan to
exterminate the Jews. That there was first an order from Hitler which
said: Kill all the Jews. That there was a plan, a specific plan, that
there were gas chambers, which were a specific weapon for a specific
crime. And that the result of all this was 6 million Jews who died.
This we contest. We say that this is not true. This is not
exact.
I suppose that most of you
believe that there was an order coming from Hitler to kill the Jews.
This was said and repeated in the '50's, in the '60's, in the '70's.
At the end of the '80's it was abandoned. Today you will not find one
historian claiming that there was any order, either from Hitler or
from any Nazi, aiming to kill the Jews. I suppose that most of you,
you think there was such a plan. For example, a plan decided in
Berlin-Wannsee, on the 20th of January 1942. This was said and
repeated. Now it's been totally abandoned. And a very well known
Jewish historian his name is Yehuda Bauer said in January 1992: "The
silly story of Wannsee". Because in Wannsee nothing of the kind was
decided. It was decided that the Jews would be expelled, if possible,
from Europe. But no question of "extermination". So no order, no
plan, no budget. If you decide on such a programme, especially in
time of war, you need money to carry it out. You need to decide that
such a sum of money will be given to such service, for such purpose.
But, nothing.
Now, are there any gas
chambers? Do you have any proof that a room called "gas chamber" was
actually a room where people were killed by gas, and especially with
Zyklon B? The answer is No. You have not the slightest expert proof
of that. I'll get back to this question of the gas chambers and you
will see that what we are told about it is a physical and chemical
impossibility. I've used the word "Zyklon B". It's quite right that
Zyklon B existed. It had existed since 1922 and it still exists
today. It is, precisely, hydrocyanic acid to kill lice. Do we have
any expert's report showing that a single body was found by the
Allies in 1945 of a person who had been killed by poison gas? The
answer is No. Hundreds, thousands of autopsies have been performed.
Not one has demonstrated such a killing by this poison gas. So you
see, no order, no plan, no budget, no instruction, no gassed body, no
such weapon, I mean that there is no expert's report showing that
this place was used as the weapon of the crime. Perhaps are you going
to say: "But, what about the witnesses?" I believed as you do, you
who believe that there were gas chambers, that we had so much proof,
that we had so many witnesses. And I was shocked when for the first
time I read that those gas chambers had not existed. So, believe me:
I have read many, many testimonies. Especially, of course,
testimonies coming from Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal and other
people like that. And my conclusion is that there is not one witness
of the gassings or of the gas chambers. Because and this is really a
scandal not once in so many trials against German people, not once
has a so-called witness been cross-examined on the very facts of
gassing. Many times myself I have met Jews saying: "Now, Mr
Faurisson, how can you say that there were no gas chambers? I was
myself in Auschwitz. I am a living witness". Every time I have looked
those people in the eye and said: "Now, you claim that you are a
witness: please describe to me the gas chamber that you saw. Please
describe to me the gassing." The answer is: "Now, Mr Faurisson, how
can you expect me to have witnessed a gassing? If I had witnessed a
gassing I wouldn't be here, alive, to talk to you." Which means:
1) that this person lied to me when first he or she said: "I
am a living witness of the gassings;" 2) it means that in the
opinion of this person there could not be any witnesses, which is
false. You can imagine that, if those fantastic slaughterhouses had
existed, we would have thousands of witnesses. So, if you don't have,
as I've told you, an order, a plan, a budget, instructions, a body
etc., no weapon and so on, and if you have no witnesses, then what is
it that you have?
Sometimes people rather naively
say: "But we know that the Germans destroyed the gas chambers and
killed all the witnesses." I am sorry. It makes your position worse,
because my question would be: "Please describe to me what the Germans
are supposed to have destroyed. What do you know about that?" I need
a description. For 32 years I've been looking for what
such a gas chamber could look like. In 32 years
I've never found it. Sometimes I've thought, "Here we are: I am
approaching a gas chamber, something resembling a gas chamber". But
every time it's been like a mirage. It's vanished. So I need simply
an image. I've visited, of course, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Majdanek,
Mauthausen, Hartheim, Dachau, Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen,
Struthof-Natzweiler and so on. What we are shown in some of those
camps, especially in Auschwitz 1, is really ridiculous. Never
could any of those poor rooms have been a gas
chamber.
And this is the most important
part, I think, of what I have to say to you. It's about what a gas
chamber, if it had existed, would have looked like. Many people make
a mistake. They mix up executions by gassing with deliberate,
suicidal gassings, or with accidental ones. There are many accidents
with gas. If you want to execute somebody with gas it's extremely
difficult. Because you want to kill that person and you don't want to
kill yourself. You don't wish to run any risk: risk of explosion,
risk of the gas's escaping from the room and getting into your
quarters and killing you or making you sick. So you have something
simple to do. You only need to see what is and what was already in
the '20's or in the '30's an American gas chamber, in an American
penitentiary to execute a prisoner with hydrocyanic acid. And Zyklon
B is hydrocyanic acid. So, please go to the United States as I did to
visit a gas chamber, or try to find documentation on it. And you will
see how horribly difficult it is to execute one man, only one man
with hydrocyanic acid. The most terrible problem is the problem of
airtightness. Because hydrocyanic acid is a substance which sticks to
everything. Which attacks everything. And you have to be very careful
to keep a place, as much as possible, airtight, hermetic, so that
there is no danger for yourself. And the second problem is, after the
execution, to get rid of the gas, this gas which sticks everywhere.
You need special fans. You need a very strong exhauster to exhaust
the gas. You need a mixer to neutralise this gas. And this gas,
supposed to have been neutralised, is ejected through a very high
smokestack. And the day of an execution, the guards in the prison
have no right to be on the roof, because it's too dangerous. And once
the execution is finished, the doctor and the two assistants have to
wait a long time. When they think that most of the gas is neutralised
or expelled and neutralised, they put on a gas mask with a special
filter, rubber gloves, boots and so on. They get into the place. And
they have to wash the body of the man very carefully. Because
hydrocyanic acid sticks to every part of the body. In your skin and
in natural orifices. So this body, the body itself is very
dangerous.
So when you go after that, when
you go to Auschwitz and when you see this ridiculous place next to
the place with the ovens, and when you see that they dare to say that
this was an enormous gas chamber, excuse me, but you can only laugh
at it. First you have three openings. You have two doors and an
opening. So, two wooden doors. Poor little doors opening
inwards. Which means, into the place where 800 people at that
time are supposed to have been gassed. One of those little doors even
has glass panes. You understand that if you had had 800 people in
this place, or even one man, the pane would have been broken and the
gas would have escaped to the SS hospital which was something like 20
meters away from there. One of the openings leads into the room of
the crematoria. But hydrocyanic acid is an explosive gas. So you
mustn't use it close to such a room. And here, you don't find the
slightest mechanism to expel, to neutralise all this gas. It's really
shameful to say that, and I must add that I was the first man to
publish in my books plans of this place. In fact this place from '40
to '43 had been what the Germans call a "Leichenhalle", which
is a place to put dead bodies: people who had died from typhus and so
on. They waited there for cremation. It's a place where you store
bodies, dead bodies. Then at the end of '43, beginning of '44, it was
transformed into an air-raid shelter. And today you can even, if you
have good eyes, you can see the separation walls as in an air-raid
shelter in what we call zigzag, to cut, you see, the draft of the
bombs. So, in fact, it was an air-raid shelter.The Poles, the
Communist Poles in 1945 destroyed those walls and their
successors want you today to believe that this was a
gas chamber.
If you go to Birkenau you see
the ruins of big crematoria. And you are told that those crematoria
had gas chambers. I found the plan and we can see how they were
built: they were what the Germans call a "Leichenkeller",
which means an underground depot for bodies. And you are also shown,
as at first in Auschwitz 1, an allegedly "real" or "rebuilt", if you
prefer gas chamber. Because they have changed the story now. They say
"It has been rebuilt by us Poles". If you have ruins in Birkenau, you
have something normal to do. It's to make an investigation. Because
ruins are very important. And this first place in Auschwitz 1 is very
important. You need an expert report. How is it that no expert report
has ever been made? I have never heard of a judge or people in the
police saying, when there has been a crime: "As we have many
witnesses, we don't need an expert report about the weapon". Even if
the weapon is very usual. I mean a gun or a rope or a knife. How is
it that for this fantastic weapon, which nobody has ever seen or is
able to describe, how is it that there has been no investigation of
the places in Auschwitz, Majdanek or Mauthausen supposed to have
contained gas chambers? It's not too late. You can do it today. Why
don't you do it? You are accusing Germany. You have no right to
accuse if you have no proof. How is it that you refuse an expert
report? Even today you don't want to make an
investigation.
Now, let me tell you something.
We revisionists, we asked for an expert report and, let me tell you,
we got expert reports. There are today four expert reports. One is
American. The second this is a surprise is Polish. The third is
Austrian. The fourth is German. The first expert examination was made
in 1988. We asked a specialist of American gas chambers, his name is
Fred Leuchter, to make an investigation. He went to Poland. And a man
in Toronto, a very important man, called Ernst Zündel, who is a
revisionist, who had an enormous trial in Toronto (Canada), asked me
to go and visit Fred Leuchter. And we asked Fred Leuchter to come to
Toronto, we asked Fred Leuchter to go to Poland. And Fred Leuchter
said: "Yes, I am ready to go to Poland. But beware: if I find that
those gas chambers existed and functioned I am going to say it." And
Ernst Zündel said: "That's okay." So, as I've told you, he went
to Poland, and came back with a report, 193 pages. And he took, in
Auschwitz, some wall-scrapings. You must know that hydrocyanic acid
sticks to surfaces, as I've said, and can stay there for centuries.
You can't get rid of it. This is why in the disinfection gas chambers
in Auschwitz you can still see, very easily, blue patches outside.
Even outside with the rain and the snow you have still those blue
patches showing that there was hydrocyanic acid or prussic acid or,
as we say, "blue acid". So he took back those scrapings and had them
analysed by an American laboratory. And the result was extraordinary.
Fred Leuchter had the idea of taking one sample from a disinfection
gas chamber and many samples from places in Auschwitz 1 and in
Birkenau which are supposed to have been homicidal gas chambers. The
result was that in the disinfection gas chamber you had an enormous
quantity of cyanide. And in the places where people and not lice are
supposed to have been killed, you had no traces, or else very very
small traces, probably due to the fact that those places had been
disinfected with Zyklon B. As was the case with those
"Leichenhalle" or"Leichenkeller" I mean the places with
dead bodies.
And this was said at the
Toronto trial in 1988. On the 20th and the 21st of April 1988. I can
tell you, because I attended this trial where I saw, I could say, the
death of the myth of the gas chambers. But you see, after that, the
Poles got very upset. The director of the Auschwitz museum decided to
try to show that Leuchter was wrong. And they asked a laboratory in
Krakow (something like 50 kilometres from Auschwitz) to carry out an
investigation, to make another expert report, to show that Leuchter
was wrong. And, believe me, this was most surprising. The result was
that Leuchter was shown to have been right. But of course those
people added: "But you see, it's not, all the same, as clear as that.
Because you must understand that with the rain, with the snow and so
on, those traces may have disappeared." Which is simply false. They
cannot have disappeared. Then came a third expertise by a man call
Walter Lüftl. He lives in Vienna. He is, or he was at that time,
an engineer. He was dismissed after expressing his views. This man
was the head of what they call in Austria the Chamber of Engineers.
Not a common man. A very high-ranking specialist. Then came, in 1992,
which means this year, the report of a German chemist, a very
high-ranking specialist in chemistry. So, four expert reports, four
proofs that the gas chambers, those homicidal gas chambers, never
existed and, even, never could have existed.
Also
read:
A strange
translation: The book Night by Elie Wiesel
Simon
Wiesenthal: Fraudulent 'Nazi hunter'
Is
The Diary of Anne Frank genuine?
The
Gas Chambers: Truth or Lie? Robert Faurisson answers 12
questions
What is revisionism? What do we
revisionists say?
Transcript from a speech given in
Stockholm, December 4, 1992
and broadcast by Radio Islam.
