No Holes, no Holocaust
Professor
Robert Faurisson
Message to Mark WEBER
Dear Mark,
This morning I received from you Dr M. Dragan's text "Faurisson and 25cm X 25cm Zyklone [sic] holes", which he signed "Polina Borowska for the Polish historical Society". In this paper it is stated: "Unfortunately, for some time know [sic] Prof Faurisson is unable to provide any reference for these measurements".
I think I have had good reason not to answer Dr M. Dragan's request for said references. First, I do not very much appreciate the constant use of such pseudonyms. Also, for years I have been providing Dr M. Dragan with information and even with ideas in spite of his arrogant and insistent way of asking for them. Once I even made, on his request, corrections and additions to his endless "drafts". On occasion I have asked him to give me some credit for my information, ideas or corrections. I don't believe he has ever done so. What I have noticed many times is that, on the contrary, he has presented himself as the discoverer of ideas which I myself had given him or which I had already made public in texts or at conferences.
Again on the subject of this "no holes" argument, which he has recently put forth in a very long paper, he has never mentioned my name. Moreover he is now accusing me of being incapable of furnishing any reference for the measurements.
He is wrong once more.
I have published the source at least once: in the December 1996 issue of Adelaide Institute Online in an article on p. 24 entitled "A KGB novelist: Gerald Fleming", which was in fact a reply of 30 September of that year to Professor Fleming. In columns B and C I gave all the necessary references, namely: "Protokolle des Todes", Der Spiegel, 40 (1993) [4 October 1993], p. 162. I wrote:
For instance, one of the confessed [i.e. whose confessions were obtained by the Soviets] said: "In der Decke [of the Krema II 'gas chamber'] waren quadratische Öffnungen (25 x 25 Zentimeter)" (Der Spiegel, p. 162). The trouble is that even today you can see that not one square opening exists in the ceiling.
Dr Töben, who published my paper, added: "This fact gave rise to Faurisson's now famous quip: No Holes, no Holocaust". Dr Töben ought to have written: ·no «Holocaust».
The name of the engineer who made that confession was Schultze. The interrogation took place on 4 March 1946 (at the time of the Nuremberg trial). It began with the words:
Das Gebäude war 8 Meter breit und 30 Meter lang. Innen war es vollkommen leer. Die Höhe betrug 2,6 Meter".
Best wishes,
R. Faurisson