Rassinier, Paul

I had a chance to do this in the spring of 1989, when one of my friends, who had left the liberal FDP shortly before to join the Repub-likaner, addressed the Holocaust issue in one of our discussions. He recommended that I read the book Was ist Wahrheit, (What is Truth) by the socialist Frenchman, Professor Paul Rassinier.30 This may be regarded as the first fully revisionist book ever published. It deals with the supposed extermination of the Jews from the point of view of a former member of the French Resistance who had been incarcerated by the Germans in several concentration camps during WWII. 

To an attentive reader of this declaration, the sentence Unfortunately, the original errors committed by Dr. Nyiszli have also been repeated might allow one to perceive that, worst of all, Mr. Bily, a petty Jewish tradesman, had recopied a testimony which itself had already been false. As I have recently mentioned, Paul Rassinier had long ago proved that Medecin d Auschwitz, a work dear to Jean-Paul... 

Paul Rassinier, Le Mensonge d Ulysse, La Vielle Taupe, Paris 1979, p. 162 ff. (online aaargh.vho.org/fran/archRassi/prmu/prmu.html) cf. Engl. Rassinier, The Holocaust Story and the Lies of Ulysses, 2nd ed., Institute for Historical Review, New Port Beach 1990. 

The book Le Mensonge d Ulysse by Paul Rassinier, later to become the founder of Holocaust revisionism, by means of an impressive example, shows the manner in which even the most improbable rumors were believed in the panic-stricken, hatred-impregnated atmosphere of the concentration camps. Over the entrance gate to Buchenwald camp, there was an inscription reading Jedem das Seine, a principle of ancient Roman law meaning the principle of justice is to give each person... 

Paul Rassinier, op. cit. (note 61), p. 26. The sentence Abandon hope, all ye that enter here appears over the gate to hell in Dante s Inferno. 

Paul Rassinier, Was ist Wahrheit Druffel, Leoni 1982 Paul Rassinier, Was nun, Odysseus , Priester, Wiesbaden 1960... 

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