At the European Parliament Lady Renouf asks for one single proof of "the Holocaust."
Mark Graffis
At the European Parliament, during a conference against "Denial", Lady Renouf
asks for proof, one single proof, of "the Holocaust."
>From London, where she lives, Lady Michhle Renouf has recently been to
Brussels and there, equipped with the necessary authorisations, on October 6,
2009 she was able to take part, inside the very building housing the European
Parliament, in a conference on "Denial and Democracy in Europe". Devoted to
the preparation of a pan-European law criminalising revisionism (in the
current jargon, "Holocaust denial"), the conference attracted about two
hundred people, amongst whom a few members of the European Parliament; it was
held under the patronage of the German Elmar Brok, a former journalist now
himself an MEP. In a lengthy account in English, Lady Renouf has summed up the
content of the various talks, naturally all antirevisionist, each one more
pitiful than the rest.
Amongst the photos she includes in her account are a few of one Gilles
Karmazyn; hitherto, in his long-running efforts on the Internet to track down
revisionists and their writings, this petty Torquemada had succeeded in hiding
his face, no image of which is to be found even with Google or Wikipedia.
But the most surprising thing is that, by luck, Lady Renouf, unknown to the
person presiding over the conference, obtained permission to speak after the
scheduled participants and she - who is neither a revisionist nor an
antirevisionist - proceeded to deliver an out-and-out plea for a free debate
on "the Holocaust"; she went so far as to ask that, in order to set off that
debate, one proof, one single proof of the existence of the Nazi gas chambers
be supplied.
In any case, the present days seem to bear out the impression that
the exterminationist argument is, as the Americans say, running out of gas.
One may indeed ask whether the lie of the alleged Nazi gas chambers is now in
more or less the same state as Ariel Sharon. And, if it's dead, isn't it about
time it was buried?
A brief and forceful address
Here is the text of Lady Renouf's brief and forceful address. In it, the
letters "WMD" designate the "weapons of mass destruction" attributed to Adolf
Hitler, that is, those "gas chambers" and those "gas vans" allegedly conceived
and used for killing the Jews of Europe, but of which no trace has ever been
found and which, for obvious physical and technical reasons, are quite simply
inconceivable.
Thank you, Madam Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This conference is entitled "Denial and Democracy". There is surely only one
way to combat "denial" in a "democratic" context - by not instituting
debate-denial across Europe but instead by providing documentary evidence to
disprove the deniers' case. Two weeks ago Benjamin Netanyahu based his address
to the United Nations on evidence - so-called industrial WMD construction
blueprints - which had been rejected as spurious by Jewish experts such as
Prof. Van Pelt, who went so far as to say "the deniers are having great fun
because it shows how people are gullible". These same documents held up as
proofs by Netanyahu were in fact first discovered and published in 1976 (as
proof of the normality of gas chambers [*] thus labelled for disinfecting
clothing) by the veteran revisionist Professor Robert Faurisson!
Can this expert conference succeed where Netanyahu failed? Can this conference
send us away with one - just one - clear item of documentary proof which
confounds source-critical Holocaust revisionists? Or must we merely silence
such sceptical voices with threats, fines and prison sentences and teach our
school children debate-denial of normal historical source criticism? Have you
seen the "Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust"? [holding up the
Handbook cover] If I may I'll quote from it: "Care must be taken not to give a
platform for deniers ... or seek to disprove the deniers' position through
normal historical debate and rational argument."
As a former lecturer at a university (**) I ask, please: Can the EU do what
the UN did not and give us today one document upon which school children and
their teachers can rely? For even the denial law does not define what is the
unique industrial WMD for which denial of proof condemns citizens of Europe
and beyond to sit for years in prison."
(*) Note by RF: Here there is some slight confusion. It was indeed on March
19, 1976 that I discovered the building plans of the Auschwitz and Birkenau
crematoria; it was precisely in the Archives section of the Auschwitz State
Museum, which had been keeping them hidden since the war, that I'd had the
chance to make that discovery. But only nearly three years later was it that,
after considerable difficulties, I finally found the way to show copies of a
few of my 116 Auschwitz documents to the press, in this case a reporter and a
photographer from the Spanish magazine Interviu. In issue n0 145 of that
weekly (February 22-28, 1979, p. 64-66), I am seen pointing at a part of
Krematorium II; I'm showing the plan of a vast room which, given the layout of
the area and the room's situation, dimensions, structure, ventilation system
and other physical features, cannot have been an execution gas chamber but
indeed was, as was clearly written on the plan, a simple "basement depository"
(Leichenkeller) meant to hold corpses awaiting cremation. Besides, there were
other drawings indicating, in plain lettering, the existence here or there of
one or several small "gas chambers" for "delousing" (Gaskammer / Entlausung).
(**) Note by RF: In reply to one conference speaker who, in a tone of disdain,
had asked her: "What subject did you lecture in and where?", Lady Renouf,
Australian by birth, said: "I lectured in Fine Arts and pioneered Media
Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, because I took a
professional interest in source scepticism versus mirage advertising. I am now
an independent documentary film-maker from London."