Veil, Simone

Two weeks later, Simone Veil publicly reacted to this judicial decision - upsetting for her and her coreligionists - with a declaration of extreme importance. She admitted the absence of proofs, of traces and even witnesses of the gas chambers, but added this absence was easily explained because ... 

To begin with, everyone knows is not an argument worthy of a jurist. Furthermore, Simone Veil, believing perhaps to be getting out from behind the eight-ball, made her case only worse in effect, in... 

But what does it matter We shall take note of this concession by S. Veil there is neither proof, nor traces, nor witnesses to the gas chambers. It so happens that, in trying to reassure her circle, S. Veil clothed this surprising concession with conventional parlance. Here is, therefore, in her own words, what she confided in an interview-event for France-Soir Magazine (May 7, 1983, p. 47), of which the title was Simone Veil s warning in regard to Hitler s diaries We risk banalizing genocide... 

This brings us back, as one can see, to Simone Veil and her declaration of May 7, 1983, about which we already know what we should think. 

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