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In the long series of crimes and
atrocities of which the National-Socialist regime is guilty, the fate reserved
for the Jews and the Gypsies occupies a totally exceptional place. In fact, no
other category of victims of this regime was collectively and intentionally
condemned to an extermination in which neither age nor physical nor
intellectual weakness of the individuals saved them from a violent death. In
addition, at no other epoch and in no other place was an undertaking of this
nature so deliberately conceived and so systematically executed as in Nazi
Germany in the twentieth century. It is this crime which made the Hitlerian
regime particularly odious; and those nostalgic of the latter, powerless to
justify the crime, are reduced to denying it. It is essentially a question of
two aspects of the problem which shed a stark and insupportable light on the
Nazi regime: on the one hand, the invention of a means such as the gas chambers
of putting to death an unprecedented number of human beings, and on the other
hand the exploitation of the latter on a gigantic scale which brought about
several million deaths in the course of but three years.
There is a
whole literature (28) the task of which is
to disparage the unbearable reality. With the years, its volume increases, its
diffusion widens and its agents express themselves in French, German, English,
Spanish or Arabic.
The general "philosophy" of this campaign is
exceedingly simple: the existence of the gas chambers and the six million
victims are declared to be lies entirely invented by world Judaism after the
war. The principal motive of this colossal fraud would be the desire to extract
from conquered Germany a monetary compensation which would be greater in
proportion to the gravity of the wrongs attributed to Germany. This world wide
plot would be inspired and supported by the Center of Contemporary Jewish
Documentation in Paris, the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, the Jewish
Historical Institute of Warsaw, the State Museum of Auschwitz, the Institute of
Contemporary History of Munich, (4) etc.
The means employed by the conspirers would consist of false accusations
proferred [sic] by European Jews who survived the Second World War, of
declarations just as false extracted under torture and martyrization from the
elite of the SS of the Nazi regime (the very essence of the Aryan race) and,
finally, in the falsification of documents of the Nazi regime the purpose of
which would be to wrongly condemn it.
Paradoxically, the foundations
for the justification of Nazism through the refutation of its crimes were laid
down not by a former Nazi nor even by a German, but by a Frenchman and, what is
particularly curious, by a former resistant arrested in France by the Gestapo
and deported to the camp of Buchenwald and then to that of Dora. The person in
question is Paul Rassinier, author of a series of works (38 to 42) dedicated to the rehabilitation of the SS and to a
lively and astute polemic the purpose of which is to demonstrate on the one
hand the absence of valid proofs of the existence of gas chambers intended to
exterminate people and, on the other hand, that the number of dead among the
Jewish victims had been infinitely inferior to what was said.
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