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24 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
gerous, because I started being prosecuted and physically attacked. Jean-
Claude became frightened and begged me not to exaggerate it, but instead
to bring the truth to the surface only step by step.
But if I have recognized something as true, I will not tell half-truths or
outright lies. We therefore parted at that point in disagreement.”
So much from the other side. Professor Faurisson did of course publish his
own rebuttals to Pressac’s works, to which I point the reader’s attention. 3
One may agree or disagree with Prof. Faurisson’s views. The fact is that his
views do not have to contradict Serge Klarsfeld’s statement that Jean-Claude
Pressac had become the foremost expert among exterminationist historians regarding
the knowledge of source material on the alleged extermination techniques
of Auschwitz as well as regarding his devotion and skill to address
technical questions. Because if Faurisson is right that this progress still does
not suffice scientific expectations, this would only shed a bad light on the
quality of all the rest of exterminationist publications.
In order to support Faurisson’s judgment, I will subsequently demonstrate
that Pressac failed miserably particularly with his attempt to address technical
and scientific questions. As an example I will analyze the statement of the
witness of the alleged mass extermination in Auschwitz, which Jean-Claude
Pressac considers to be the most important and at once the most credible witness:
4 Henryk Tauber, who according to his own statement was a member of
the stoker commando in crematorium II in Birkenau. With Tauber, Pressac
makes the same mistake as with all the other witnesses he quotes: he does not
subject their testimony to a technical critique. Already mere sound reasoning
of an alert, but technically uneducated mind reading Tauber’s absurd lore
should lead to the awareness that some skepticism is appropriate. But that
does apparently not apply to Pressac. 5
Tauber’s absurd testimony contains the following allegations: 6
“Generally speaking, we burned 4 or 5 corpses at a time in one muffle,
but sometimes we charged a greater number of corpses. It was possible to
charge up to 8 ‘musulmans.’ Such big charges were incinerated without
the knowledge of the head of the crematorium during air-raid warnings in
order to attract the attention of airmen by having a bigger fire emerging
from the chimney.” (emphasis added)
3 R. Faurisson, Journal of Historical Review, 11(1) (1991), pp. 25-66; ibid., 11(2) (1991), pp.
133-175; Faurisson, in Germar Rudolf (ed.), op. cit. (note 1), pp. 59-116.
4 Interrogation of Henryk Tauber on May 25, 1945, appendix 18, vol. 11 of the Höss trial,
quoted acc. to J.-C. Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers,
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1989, pp. 481-502 (http://holocausthistory.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/pressac0011.shtml).
5 For more detailed arguments about the following see G. Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust,
Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005, Chapter 4.5.6. (www.vho.org/GB/Books/loth).
6 J.-C. Pressac, op. cit. (note 4), p. 489.