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PAUL RASSINIER’S four
criticisms of Dr Miklos Nyiszli’s book
“Médecin
à Auschwitz”
[Published in English as:
“Auschwitz: a Doctor’s eyewitness
account”] |
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“ULYSSE TRAHI PAR LES SIENS” [Ulysses
betrayed by his own people]
by Paul RASSINIER
Documents et
Témoignages
Henry Colton, Paris, 1961, pages 22 and 23
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My opinion gradually becoming
accepted, they sorted to produce deportees on the other side of the
iron curtain, with whom confrontation was naturally impossible, and
who, claiming to have witnessed the agony, described it in
detail.
The first was the Hungarian communist doctor
Miklos,former prisoner atAuschwitz-Birkenau,where he looked after,
he says, the Kommando of the cremation furnaces and the gas
chambers.
He no doubt thought he would throw me into
confusion by speaking of Auschwitz, a camp where I had never been
interned and on which I was morally unauthorised to testify. But he
did not know that since I was something of a historian by profession
I could be familiar enough with historical documents to be able to
accept or refuse their authenticity after a reading. In his case, it
was the figures he produced that revealed the imposture: 25,000
persons a day for almost five years. I had no difficulty in
demonstrating that that amounted to 45 million, and that 4
crematoriums, each with 15 muffles, even with 3 bodies per muffle,
would need over 10 years to burn all that.
He agreed and
wrote to me that he would be satisfied with 2,500,000 corpses, not
all of them Jews and not all killed in gas chambers.
But he
maintained all the rest. I considered it futile to continue the
argument with such an individual |
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“LE MENSONGE
D'ULYSSE” [Ulysses’ lying tale]
by Paul RASSINIER
(Sixth edition)
La Vieille Taupe, Paris 1979, pages 236 to
240.
[Reprint of the Fifth edition of 1961] |
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And now here is the basis of the
debate, which an example will make more understandable
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A new testimony on the German concentration
camps has just appeared in Hungary and is being published by Les
Temps Modernes in France: “SS Obersturmführer, Docteur
Mengele” by Dr NYISZLI MIKLOS. It concerns the
Auschwitz-Bitkenau camp.
The first thought that comes to mind
is that this testimony has been able to appear in Hungary only with
the consent of Stalin, through the intermediary of the
Martin-Chauffer of the country, whose powers, as chairmen of what
corresponds to our CNE, are extensive enough to prevent any
“Mensonge d’Ulysse” appearing there.
lt would
therefore be suspect for this reason alone.
But that is not
the question.
Among other things, Dr Nyiszli Miklos claims
that in the Auschwitz- Birkenau camp, four gas chambers(9) [The
footnote reads in “Le Monde” of 9th January 1952. The
Procureur Général André Boissaire translates: forty-six!] 200 meters
long (no width specified), together with four other rooms of the
same dimmension to prepare the victims for the sacrifice,
asphyxiated 20,000 people a day, and that four crematoriums, each
with 15 muffles with 3 places, incinerated them as work proceeded.
He also adds that in addition 5,000 other people were also killed
each day using less modern methods and burnt in huge open air pits.
He also adds that he personally witnessed these systematic massacres
for a year.
I submit that all this is manifestly false, and
without having been a prisoner oneself, a little common sense
suffices to prove it.
The Auschwirz-Birkenau
concentration camp having in fact been built as from the end of 1939
and evacuated in January 1945, then accepting Dr Nyiszli Miklos
figure of 25,000 a day, it would have to admit that about 45 million
people died there, 36 million of whom were incinerated in the four
crematoriums after being asphyxiated, and 9 million in the two open
air cremation ditches.
While it is perfectly possible that
the four gas chambers would have been able to asphyxiate 20,000
people a day (in batches of 3000 at a time according to the
witness), it would have been absolutely impossible for the four
crematoriums to keep up with this rate. Even if they had fifteen
muffles with three places. And even if the operation took only 20
minutes, as clamed by Dr Nyiszli Miklos, which is again
false.
Taking these figures as a basis, the total capacity of
all the furnaces operating at the same time would still have been
only 540 an hour or 12,960 per 24-hour day. And at this rate it
would not have been possible to extinguish the fires until several
years after the Liberation. Provided, of course, that not a minute
was wasted over almost ten years. If now we make enquiries at the
Pêre Lachaise cemetery about the cremation time required for three
bodies in one muffle, we discover that the Auschwitz furnaces would
still he burning today and would not he extinguished for some time
to come!
I say nothing about the two open air pyres (which
according to our author were 50 meters long, 6 wide and 3 deep) by
means of which it is supposed to have been possible to burn 9
million bodies in 5 years...
There is also another
impossibility, at least as concerns extermination using gas: all
those who have studied the problem are agreed that "in the rare
camps where they existed" (E Kogon dixit) the gas chambers were not
finally operational until March 1942 and from September 1944 orders
were given, though these have not been found, any more than those
they cancelled, that they were no longer to be used to asphyxiate.
At the rate put forward by Dr Nyiszli Miklos, we then arrive at a
figure of 18 million corpses for these two and a half years. A
figure that his translator into French, Mr Tibo KREMER by what
virtue of mathematics we do not know, summarily reduces to 6
million(10) [Footnote: I wrote to Dr Nyiszli Miklos to point out all
these impossibilities. Here is what he replied: 2,500,000 victims!
Without any other comment. This figure, which is closer to the truth
and for which the gas chambers are certainly not solely responsible,
already constitutes a considerable sum of abominations!
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And I would ask this new and twofold question: what
possible point was there in thus exaggerating the degree of the
horror and what was the result of this way of proceeding, which was
widespread?
I have already received the reply that in
bringing things back to their true proportions is a universal theory
of repression. I had no other objective than to minimize the crimes
of Nazism.
I personally have another reply entirely ready,
and which I no longer have any reason not to make public. But before
giving this reply, I should like to submit for the reader’s
appreciation an incident significant of the state of mind of the age
in which we live.
As a reader of “Temps
Modernes”, I naturally informed this review of my refections
regarding the publicity it gave o Dr Nyiszli Miklos. Here is the
reply I received from Mr MERLEAU-PONTY: |
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“Historians will have to consider these questions. But
in dealing with current news, this method of examining testimony
results in throwing suspicion on what one is entitled to expect of
it. And since at the present time the tendency is rather to forget
the German camps, this requirement of rigorous historical truth
encourages a falsification, of enormous proportion, which is
tantamount to admitting that Nazism is a fable” |
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I found this reply most
instructive and did not bother to reply to Mr MERLEAU-PONTY that he
for his part forgot the Russian, and even French, camps!
For if we have to accept this doctrine that the
requirement of rigorous historical truth already encourages massive
fasifcation in the treatment of news, one asks with some
apprehension what monstrosity the large-scale falsification of news
is likely to lead to on the historical level. We only have to
imagine what historians of the future will think of the abominable
Nuremberg Trial, which already is suspected of putting the culture
of Humanity back two thousand years, that is : condemnation
presented as a crime in all the history books, that of Vercingétorix
by Julius Caesar for example.
The relationship that Mr
MERLEAU-PONTY, professor of philosophy, establishes between causes
and effects does not seem to be of excepional rigor, thus proving
that with everyone doing his job, in philosophy as elsewhere, our
sacred cows are well protected! |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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