Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYwas originally proffered by Robert Faurisson that there were no introductionshafts in the concrete ceilings of the “gas chambers” 24 of crematoriesII and III at Birkenau and that the present holes have been addedlater on, as could easily be discerned from photographs. If this allegationwere true, grave consequences would doubtlessly result. And thus,despite its markedly restrained and almost non-polemical tones, Rudolf’sintroduction, which strives to underline an internal connectionbetween the individual contributions, reveals as well that he is convincedof the non-existence of the “alleged” National Socialist attemptsof a final solution of the Jewish question.The worldwide best-known protagonist of this persuasion, RobertFaurisson, also has his say, and he expresses himself with all clarity,even with obvious polemics against “today’s Jews,” who set themselvesup in their Holocaust museums “as accusers of the whole world” (p. 9)and who he had already accused in earlier publications of having putinto the world and propagated as a “historical lie” the talk about the finalsolution in the interest of Israel.It seems impossible to also grant Faurisson’s and Rudolf’s contributionsa scientific character, which is due to the other studies, providedthey are considered as studies of details and provided one excludes thequestions of the authors’ “views” behind their papers as being irrelevantfor science.{p. 30} But the following shouldn’t be disregarded. In the number2272 of the magazine Express (Paris) of 26 Jan. 1995 appeared a longarticle by Eric Conan about Auschwitz and in particular about the currentcondition of the facilities. Nothing is less on the author’s mind thanchallenging the genocide, and one could even call his opinion about thetopic “Jewish revisionism.” Because Conan reproaches the communistmuseum administration of the years up to 1990 in an extraordinarilyheavy way, for he says that they were guided by the intention to reducethe fraction of Jewish victims in favor of the Poles and especially thecommunists among them. They moreover are said to have striven toachieve a false vividness and thus have made so many changes to thegas chamber of crematorium I in the main camp, which is shown to thetourists, that one cannot but come to the conclusion, “Tout y est faux.”[Everything there is false] 25 It is claimed that Faurisson thus had an opportunityto exploit these “forgeries.”Yet it is nothing but a matter of fairness to recall how Faurisson’sown doubts about the “gas chambers” evolved according to his own279