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Paul RASSINIER

Debunking the Genocide Myth

A Study of the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Alleged

Extermination of European Jewry

Introduction by Pierre Hofstetter

Translated from the French by Adam Robbins

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This text is the "Introduction" to Debunking the Genocide Myth, a Study of the Nazi

Concentration Camps and the Alleged Extermination of European Jewry , by Paul

RASSINIER, Introduction by Pierre Hofstetter, Translated from the French by Adam

Robbins, published in 1978 in Los Angeles by The Noontide Press, PO Box 2719,

Newport beach, CA 92659.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-53090. ISBN 0-911038-24-8.

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Table of Contents

About The Author ......................................................................................................4

Introduction by PIERRE HOFSTETTER ...................................................................5

Part I The Author's Experience.................................................................................10

Chapter One Prologue ..........................................................................................10

Chapter Two Swarms of Humanity at the Gates of Hell........................................23

Chapter Three The Circles of Hell ........................................................................37

Chapter Four Charon's Bark .................................................................................49

Chapter Five Port of Grace; Anteroom of Death ...................................................65

Chapter Six Shipwreck .........................................................................................76

PART II The Experience of Others...........................................................................80

Chapter Seven Concentration Camp Literature .....................................................80

Chapter Eight The Minor Witnesses .....................................................................90

Chapter Nine Louis Martin-Chauffier ...................................................................99

Part III The Drama of European Jews.....................................................................156

Chapter Twelve Raul Hilberg: His Doctrine and His Methods ............................156

Chapter Thirteen Witnesses, Testimonies, and Documents .................................167

Chapter Fourteen Statistics: Six Million or... ......................................................210

Chapter Fifteen Conclusion: Six Million Exterminated Jews -- Fact or Fiction ...277

Annexes .................................................................................................................288

Appendix A: Four Descriptions of Prison Life in French Penal Institutions ........288

Appendix B: The Two French Versions of the Gerstein Document.....................293

Appendix C: The Wolfgang Grosch Statement and a Report of a Second Lieutenant

to a Lieutenant....................................................................................................302

Afterword by Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review ...........................306

About The Author

Paul Rassinier was born on March 18, 1906, in Beaumont, a small village near

Montbéliard, the son of a farmer. He received his formal education in the schools of

the area and passed the necessary examinations which allowed him to teach history

and geography at the secondary school level and to use the title of "professor." He

taught in the secondary school at Faubourg de Montbéliard where students were

prepared to take the "brevet," an examination that is somewhat inferior to that

examination which is taken by students in the lycées who desire to matriculate at the

university. It was at this school that he was arrested by the Gestapo in October 1943.

Having joined the Socialist Party, SFIO, in 1934, Paul Rassinier became the head of

that party in the Belfort area when the war broke out in 1939. Following the German

occupation of France, he participated in the founding of the "Libre-Nord"

organization which became involved in various forms of "passive resistance,"

including the smuggling of Jewish refugees over the Franco-Swiss border into

Switzerland in cooperation with the Swiss Jewish Committee. Rassinier's activities

eventually came to the attention of the German authorities who caused him to be

arrested and to be deported to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Later he was

sent to the camp at Dora where he was incarcerated until the end of the war.

Upon his liberation in 1945, he returned to France where he was elected to the

Assemblée Nationale as a Socialist deputy. He served for one year and then retired He

was awarded the highest decoration which the French government bestowed for

service in the wartime resistance movement. Due to his frail health, a consequence of

his two years of imprisonment at Buchenwald and Dora, he retired from teaching and

received a small pension from the French government. He died on July 29, 1967, at

his home in Asnières, near Paris. He is survived by his wife, Jeanette, and his only

son, Jean-Paul, who is a practicing physician

Introduction

by PIERRE HOFSTETTER

In every respect, Paul Rassinier was a remarkable man of his time -- out of the

ordinary, we are tempted to write -- a man to whom can be immediately attributed

these three essential qualities, all of which are rather rare today in a single person:

courage, honesty and ability.

As a professor of history and geography, he could have had a brilliant and lucrative

career in these disciplines if he had confined himself to the "official history" -- i.e. the

"official false history that is taught ad usum Delphini " and of which Balzac spoke --

and if he had not opted for historical revisionism by beginning to study carefully the

"hidden history" wherein lies the true causes of events, in short, of the "shameful

history". He devoted the last twenty years of his life to the debunking of the historical

orthodoxy that surrounds World War II produced a shelf full of books which

culminated in the remarkable work, insufficiently known, entitled Les Responsables

de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1) which was published shortly before his death in

July 1967.

Paul Rassinier also could have made a name for himself in politics if, when he was a

socialist representative in 1946, he had submitted to the oppressive climate of that

period in France and had accepted open collaboration with the Communist Party. But,

he refused such collaboration, and that party did all that it could to defeat him in his

bid for re-election. As a matter of fact, the Communists always did want Paul

Rassinier's "hide" in both the literal as well as the figurative sense. A confirmed, total

pacifist, Rassinier, in 1922 at the age of 16, under the influence of the anarchist Victor

Serge, had been drawn into the Communist Party from which, having later gone to the

opposition, he was quickly excluded. He joined the Socialist party in 1936, where he

made himself known particularly in the pacifist wing that was opposed to the French

policies that led to the 1939 war. Then, after France was occupied by the German

army, he was one of the earliest resistants to this occupation and helped to found the

"Libre-Nord" movement, but, unlike the murderous guerrilla bands and the "shadow

assassins," he tried to inculcate into these Resistance movements "the idea of

nonviolence and the principles of total pacifism." Such an attitude succeeded in

getting him "condemned to death" by the Communist resistance (which had arrived on

the scene late following the German attack on the U.S.S.R. in June 1941) and in

putting him on the receiving end of the ritual "little warning coffin" effigy. It is bitter

irony that this man -- deported to Buchenwald and to Dora, where he endured

frightful suffering for nearly two years -- should later concede that he only escaped

from the rain of Communist machine gun fire thanks to his arrest by the Gestapo on

October 30, 1943, and his subsequent deportation to Germany.

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