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28 GERMAR RUDOLF, CARLO MATTOGNO · AUSCHWITZ LIES
riously claim that the corpses in Auschwitz were put into pans. After all, that
would have turned them into lunchmeat, but not into ashes.
I may also indicate that open fires in pits, in which hundreds of corpses
would be cremated within a few hours, as claimed by Tauber and his ilk,
would generate such high temperatures in the immediate vicinity that it would
have been necessary to wear suits made of asbestos to allow working close to
these fires.
In other words, these passages of Tauber’s testimony are nothing but invented
atrocity stories with no base in truth. One does not have to be an expert
to recognize this. If a scholar like Pressac still believes such a witness, after he
had lied so boldly, then there is no help anymore for him.
To criticize Pressac’s works thoroughly would require an entire book, and
that is exactly what we revisionists have done already as early as 1995. 18 I
therefore will restrict myself here to formal aspects of Pressac’s work in order
to expose Pressac’s methodic weakness, if not to say his outright failure. I will
do this by systematically exposing Pressac’s total lack of scholarly methods
based on an evaluation of his two books. The original version of this assessment
was prepared in January 1994 on request of Düsseldorf defense lawyer
Hajo Herrmann. It was introduced during various court proceedings in Germany
as evidence (although German courts always reject any kind of evidence
introduced by the defense in these matters, as they are required by law):
Expert Report on the Question of Scientific Validity of the
Books Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas
Chambers 4 and Les Crématoires d’Auschwitz, la Machinerie
du meurtre de masse 19 by Jean-Claude Pressac
1. Criteria for Scientific Validity
The theses which are the subject of a scientific work must be supported by
critical argumentation based on evidence in the work or by reference to
sources and they must be subjected to criticism of works with opposing theses.
Whether the books by Pressac given in the title meet these requirements is
discussed in what follows. When giving examples of Pressac’s work, I will restrict
myself to his second book, which can be seen as a systematized and up-
18 See the German version of op. cit. (note 1): Herbert Verbeke (ed.), Auschwitz: Nackte Fakten,
VHO, Berchem 1996 (www.vho.org/D/anf/); see also the critique of the work by R. van
Pelt, most of which applies to Pressac as well: Germar Rudolf, Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz:
The Case against Insanity, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago, in preparation
(www.vho.org/GB/Books/atcai).
19 CNRS Éditions, Paris 1993.