Born near London on
January 25, 1929 to a French father and a British mother (of Scottish origin), Professor
Robert Faurisson successively taught French, Latin and Greek, then modern and
contemporary French literature and, finally, the “critical appraisal of texts
and documents (literature, history, media)”. He worked, notably, at the
Sorbonne, then at a university in Lyon. After publishing the results of his
historical research he was deprived of the right to teach. He began to make his
findings known especially in 1978-1979 with two articles in the daily Le
Monde, in which he particularly pointed out his knowledge of the
crematoria at Auschwitz and Birkenau (having discovered, on March 19, 1976, the
building plans that had been kept hidden till then) and explained the physical
and chemical impossibility of the alleged operation of homicidal gas chambers
in the German concentration camps. On December 17, 1980, on the French radio
station Europe n° 1, he summed up
his historical revisionism in a sentence of about 60 words:
The alleged Hitlerite
gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same
historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle
whose main beneficiaries are the State of Israel and international Zionism and
whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the
Palestinian people in their entirety.
Between 1978 and 1993 R.
Faurisson suffered ten physical assaults. From 1981 to today he has often been
convicted by the courts but never yet sentenced to actual imprisonment. On July
13, 1990, in the hope of silencing him, the French government brought in
special legislation against revisionism, known either as the “loi Faurisson” or the “loi Fabius-Gayssot”, after its promoter,
Laurent Fabius – a very rich Socialist member of parliament of Jewish origin –
and its main sponsor, Jean-Claude Gayssot, a Communist member.
R. Faurisson is the
author of ten books in French, amongst which Ecrits révisionnistes in
six volumes (a seventh is in preparation). These books are distributed
primarily by Editions Akribeia (a Greek word meaning “exactitude”), 45/3 Route
de Vourles, F - 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval (France), http://www.akribeia.fr. His
“unofficial blog” is at http://robertfaurisson.blogspot.com; a
93-minute video dated September 11, 2011 and entitled “A man: Robert Faurisson”
can be seen at http://www.unhommefaurisson.com in French,
English, German and other languages as well.
August 17, 2013
