The secular religion of "the Holocaust", a tainted product of consumer society
Robert Faurisson, July 31, 2008
The religion of "the Holocaust" is a secular one: it belongs to the
lay world; it is profane; in actuality, it has at its disposal the secular arm,
that is a temporal authority with dreaded power. It has its dogma, its
commandments, its decrees, its prophets and its high priests. As one
revisionist has observed, it has its circle of saints, male and female, amongst
whom, for example, Saint Anne (Frank), Saint Simon (Wiesenthal) and Saint Elie
(Wiesel). It has its holy places, its rituals and its pilgrimages. It has its
sacred (and macabre) buildings and its relics (in the form of cakes of soap,
shoes, toothbrushes, ...). It has its martyrs, its heroes, its miracles and its
miraculous survivors (in the millions), its golden legend and its righteous
ones. Auschwitz is its Golgotha. For it, God is called Yahweh, protector of his
chosen people, who, as said in one of the psalms of David (number 120),
recently invoked by a female public prosecutor, Anne de Fontette, during the
trial in Paris of a French revisionist, punishes "lying lips" (by,
incidentally, sending them the "sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of
juniper"). For this religion, Satan is called Hitler, condemned, like Jesus in
the Talmud, to boil for eternity in excrement. It knows neither mercy, nor
forgiveness, nor clemency but only the duty of vengeance. It amasses fortunes
through blackmail and extortion and acquires unheard-of privileges. It dictates
its law to the nations. Its heart beats in Jerusalem, at the Yad Vashem
monument, in a land taken over from the natives; in the shelter of a 26-foot high
wall built to protect a people who are the salt of the earth, the companions of
the "Holocaust" faith rule over the goy with a system that is the purest
expression of militarism, racism and colonialism.
A
quite recent religion whose growth has been meteoric
Although it is largely an avatar of the Hebraic religion, the new
religion is quite recent and has exhibited meteoric growth. For the historian,
the phenomenon is exceptional. Most often a religion of universal scope has its
origins in remote and obscure times, a fact that makes the task of historians
of religious ideas and institutions rather arduous. However, as luck would have
it for that type of historian, in the space of fifty-odd years (1945-2000),
right before our eyes, a new religion, that of "the Holocaust", has suddenly
come into being and proceeded to develop with astonishing speed, spreading
nearly everywhere. It has conquered the West and intends to impose itself on
the rest of the world. Any researcher interested in the historical phenomenon
made up by the birth, life and death of religions ought therefore to seize the
occasion, never so much as hoped for, thus offered to study from up close the
birth and life of this new religion, then calculate its chances of survival and
the possibility of its demise. Any specialist of war watching out for
indications of a coming conflagration would owe it to himself to survey the
risks of a warlike crusade such as the one into which this conquering religion
may take us.
A
religion that embraces consumerism
As a rule, consumer society places religions and ideologies in
difficulty or danger. Each year, growth in both industrial production and
business activity creates in peoples' minds new needs and desires, truly
concrete ones, lessening their thirst for the absolute or their aspiration
towards an ideal, factors that religions and ideologies feed on. Besides, the
progress of scientific thinking makes people more and more sceptical as to the
truth of religion's stories and the promises it gives them. Paradoxically, the
only religion to prosper today is the "Holocaust" religion, ruling, so to
speak, supreme and having those sceptics who are openly active cast out from
the rest of mankind: it labels them "deniers", whilst they call themselves
"revisionists".
These days the ideas of homeland, nationalism or race, as well as
those of communism or even socialism, are in crisis or even on their way to
extinction. Equally in crisis are the religions of the Western world, including
the Jewish religion, and in their turn but in a less visible manner, so are the
non-Western religions, themselves confronted by consumerism's force of
attraction; whatever one may think, the Moslem religion is no exception: the
bazaar attracts bigger crowds than the mosque and, in certain oil-rich
kingdoms, consumerism in its most outlandish forms poses an ever more insolent
challenge to the rules for living laid down by Islam.
Roman Catholicism, for its part, is stricken with anaemia: to use
Céline's phrase, it has become "christianaemic". Amongst the Catholics whom
Benedict XVI addresses, how many still believe in the virginity of Mary, the
miracles of Jesus, the physical resurrection of the dead, everlasting life, in
heaven, purgatory and hell? The churchmen's talk is usually limited to trotting
out the word that "God is love". The Protestant religions and those akin to
them are diluted, along with their doctrines, in an infinity of sects and
variants. The Jewish religion sees its members, more and more reluctant to
observe so many peculiar rules and prohibitions, deserting the synagogue and,
in ever greater numbers, marrying outside the community.
But whereas Western beliefs or convictions have lost much of their
substance, faith in "the Holocaust" has strengthened; it has ended up creating
a link - a religion, according to standard etymology at any rate, is a link (religat
religio) - that enables disparate sets of communities and nations to share
a common faith. All in all, Christians and Jews today cooperate heartily in
propagating the holocaustic faith. Even a fair number of agnostics or atheists
can be seen lining up with enthusiasm under the "Holocaust" banner.
"Auschwitz" is achieving the union of all.
The fact is that this new religion, born in the era where
consumerism expanded so rapidly, bears all the hallmarks of consumerism. It has
its vigour, cleverness and inventiveness. It exploits all the resources of marketing
and communication. The vilest products of Shoah Business are but the
secondary effects of a religion that, intrinsically, is itself a sheer
fabrication. From a few scraps of a given historical reality, things that
were, after all, commonplace in wartime (like the internment of a good part of
the European Jews in ghettos or camps), its promoters have built a gigantic
historical imposture: the imposture, all at once, of the alleged extermination
of the Jews of Europe, of camps allegedly equipped with homicidal gas chambers
and, finally, of an alleged six million Jewish victims.
A
religion that seems to have found the solution to the Jewish question
Throughout the millennia, the Jews, at first generally well received
in the lands that have taken them in, have ended up arousing a phenomenon of
rejection leading to their expulsion but, quite often, after leaving through
one door, they have re-entered through another door. In several nations of
continental Europe, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the phenomenon appeared once more. "The Jewish question" was
especially put in Russia, Poland, Romania, Austria-Hungary, Germany and France.
Everyone, beginning with the Jews themselves, then set about looking for "a
solution" to this "Jewish question". For the Zionists, long a minority amongst
their coreligionists, the solution could only be territorial. The thing
to do was to find, with the accord of the imperial powers, a territory that
Jewish colonists could settle. This colony might be located, for example, in
Palestine, Madagascar, Uganda, South America, Siberia, ... Poland and France
envisaged the Madagascar solution whilst the Soviet Union created in southern
Siberia the autonomous Jewish sector of Birobijan. As for National Socialist
Germany, she was to study the possibility of settling the Jews in Palestine but
wound up realising, from 1937, the unrealistic nature of the idea and the great
wrong to the Palestinians that such a project would entail. Subsequently the 3rd
Reich wanted to create a Jewish colony in a part of Poland (the Judenreservat
of Nisko, south of Lublin), then in its turn, in 1940, it seriously considered
creating a colony in Madagascar (the Madagascar Projekt). Two years
later, beset by the necessities of a war to wage on land, sea and in the air
and taken up with the more and more distressing concerns of having to save
German cities from a deluge of fire, to safeguard the very life of his people,
to keep the economy of a whole continent running, a continent so poor in raw
materials, Chancellor Hitler made it known to his entourage, notably in the
presence of Reichsminister and head of the Reichskanzlerei Hans-Heinrich
Lammers, that he intended to "put off solving the Jewish question till after
the war". Constituting within her a population necessarily hostile to a Germany
at war, the Jews - in any case a large portion of them - had to be deported and
interned. Those able to work were made to do so, the others were confined in
concentration camps or transit camps. Never did Hitler either desire or
authorise the massacre of Jews and his courts martial went so far as to order
the death penalty, even in Soviet territory, for soldiers found guilty of
excesses against Jews. Never did the German State envisage anything else, as
concerned the Jews, than a final territorial solution of
the Jewish question" (eine territoriale Endlösung der Judenfrage) and it
takes all the dishonesty of our orthodox historians to evoke incessantly "the final solution of the Jewish question" and deliberately evade the
adjective "territorial", so important here. Up to the end of the war,
Germany kept on offering to deliver interned Jews to the western Allies, but on
condition that they then stay in Britain, for example, and not go and invade
Palestine to torment "the noble and valiant Arab people". There was nothing
exceptional about the fate of Europe's Jews in the general blaze of war. It
would have deserved just a mention in the great book of Second World War
history. One may therefore quite rightly be astonished that today the fate of
the Jews should be considered the essential feature of that war.
After the war it was in the land of Palestine and to the detriment
of the Palestinians that the upholders of the "Holocaust" religion found - or
believed they'd found - the final territorial solution to the Jewish question.
A
religion that, previously, groped along with its sales methods
(Raul
Hilberg's recantation)
I suggest that sociologists undertake a history of the new religion
by examining the extremely varied techniques in line with which this "product"
was created, launched and sold over the years 1945-2000. They can thus measure
the distance between the often clumsy procedures of the beginning and the
sophistication, at the end, of the packagings designed by our
present-day spin doctors (crooked "com" experts) for their
presentations of "the Holocaust", henceforth a compulsory and kosher
mass-consumer product.
In 1961, Raul Hilberg, first of the "Holocaust" historians, "the
pope" of exterminationist science, published the first version of his major
work, The Destruction of the European Jews. He expressed in doctoral
manner the following thesis: Hitler had given orders for an organised massacre
of the Jews and all was explained as somehow coming of those orders. This way
of displaying the merchandise was to end in a fiasco. With the revisionists
asking to see the Hitler orders, Hilberg was compelled to admit that they had
never existed. From 1982 to 1985, under the pressure of the same revisionists
asking to see just what the magical homicidal gas chambers, in technical
reality, looked like, he was led to revise his presentation of the holocaustic
product. In 1985, in the "revised and definitive" edition of the same book,
instead of taking an assertive, curt stance with the reader-customer, he sought
to get round him with all sorts of convoluted phrases, appealing to a supposed
taste for the mysteries of parapsychology or the paranormal. He expounded on
the history of the destruction of the European Jews without in the least
bringing up any order, from Hitler or anyone else, to exterminate the said
Jews. He explained everything by a kind of diabolical mystery through which,
spontaneously, the German bureaucrats told themselves to kill the Jews to the
very last. "Countless decision makers in a far-flung bureaucratic
machine" took part in the extermination enterprise by virtue of a "mechanism",
and did so without any "basic plan" (p. 53); these bureaucrats "created an
atmosphere in which the formal, written word could gradually be abandoned as a
modus operandi" (p. 54); there were "basic understandings of officials
resulting in decisions not requiring orders or explanations"; "it was a matter
of spirit, of shared comprehension, of consonance and synchronization"; "no one
agency was charged with the whole operation"; "no single organization directed
or coordinated the entire process" (p. 55). In short, according to Hilberg,
this concerted extermination had indeed taken place but there was no
possibility of actually demonstrating it with the aid of specific documents.
Two years previously, in February 1983, during a conference at Avery Fischer
Hall in New York, he had presented this strange and woolly thesis as follows:
"What began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not
organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no
budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a
time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible
meeting of minds, a consensus-mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy". To
sum up, that vast project of destruction was executed, magically, by telepathy
and by the diabolical workings of the "Nazi" bureaucratic genius. It can be
said that with Hilberg, historical science has thus turned cabalistic or
religious.
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, at their end, wanted to set off on the
same road of fake science when they called upon French pharmacist Jean-Claude
Pressac for assistance. For several years the poor Pressac strove to sell the
tainted product in a pseudo-scientific form but, realising the imposture, in
1995 he did a complete turnaround and admitted that, all things considered, the
dossier of "the Holocaust" was "rotten" and fit only "for the rubbish bins
of history"; such were his own words. The news of his change of heart was to be
kept hidden for five years, emerging only in 2000 at the end of a long book by
Valérie Igounet, another Shoah peddler, entitled Histoire du négationnisme
en France (Seuil, p. 652).
A
religion that has at last discovered the up to date sales techniques
It was then that the spin doctors came onto the scene. What
with the product having become suspect and potential customers starting to ask
questions, the "Holocaust" religion's management had to steer an
altogether different course and give up defending the merchandise with
ostensibly scientific arguments: their new approach would be a resolutely
"modern" one. It was decided to set only the very least store by efforts at
logical argumentation and to replace serious research with appeals to sentiment
and emotion, in other words with art: the cinema, theatre, historical novels,
shows, story telling (the contemporary art of throwing together an
account or framing a "testimony"), the media circus, stage designs in museums,
public ceremonies, pilgrimages, worshiping of (false) relics and (false) symbols
(symbolic gas chambers, symbolic numbers, symbolic witnesses), incantations,
music and even kitsch, the whole thing matched with assorted ways of forcing
people to buy it, including various kinds of threats. The filmmaker Steven
Spielberg, a specialist in dishevelled and extraterrestrial fiction, has become
the leading instigator for holocaustic films as well as for the casting of 50,000 witnesses. In order to sell their tainted product better in the long
term, our fake historians and real junk dealers have sought and obtained the
primary school "franchise", with which they instil a taste for "the
Holocaust" in the very youngest clientele: for it's in the earliest years
that appetites are acquired, making so that, later on, the customer need hardly
be enticed: he'll demand on his own what he enjoyed as a child, be it sweets or
poison. Thus has it come to be that no one involved could care less about
history: all serve the sole cause of a certain Remembrance, that is a jumble of
legends and slanders that give the public the pleasure of feeling good and righteous, ready to sing the virtues of the poor Jew and curse the
intrinsically wicked "Nazis", to call for vengeance and spit on the graves
of the defeated. At the end it only remains to collect a flood of cold hard
cash and receive new privileges. Pierre Vidal-Naquet was but an amateur: in
1979, he had shown himself from the outset to be too basic, too rough in his
"Holocaust" promotion. For example, when asked by the revisionists to explain
how in blazes, after a gassing operation with hydrogen cyanide (the active
ingredient in the insecticide "Zyklon B"), a squad of Jews (Sonderkommando)
could enter unharmed into a room still full of that terrible gas, then handle
and remove up to a few thousand corpses infused with poison, he, along with 33
other academics, replied that he simply need not provide any explanation.
Spielberg, a more skilful man, was to show in a screen drama a "gas chamber"
wherein, for once, "by a miracle", the showerheads sprayed... water and not gas.
Subsequently, in his turn, Vidal-Naquet had, quite awkwardly, attempted to
answer the revisionists on the scientific level and made a fool of himself.
Claude Lanzmann, for his part, in the film Shoah, sought to produce
testimonies or confessions, but his result was clumsy, inept and hardly
convincing; that said, at least he'd grasped that the main point was to "make
movies" and occupy the public forum. Today there is no longer a single
"historian" of "the Holocaust" who makes it his business to prove the reality
of "the Holocaust" and its magical gas chambers. All of them do like Saul
Friedländer in his latest book (L'Allemagne nazie et les juifs / Les
années d'extermination, Seuil, 2008): they leave it as understood that it
all existed. With them history becomes axiomatic, although their axioms aren't
even drawn up. These new historians proceed with such self-assurance that the
reader, taken aback, doesn't realise the trick being played on him: the smooth
talkers go on endlessly about an event whose reality they haven't established
in the first place. And so it is that the customer, believing that he's bought
some goods, has actually bought the smooth talk of the one giving him the sales
pitch. Today's world champion of holocaustic bluff is a shabbos goy, Father
Patrick Dubois, one hell of a trickster whose various productions dedicated to
"the Holocaust by bullets", notably in the Ukraine, seem to have reached the
very peaks of Judeo-Christian media hype.
A
success story of the great powers
A veritable success story in the art of selling, the
holocaustic enterprise has acquired the status of an international lobby. This
lobby has blended with the American Jewish lobby (whose flagship organisation
is the AIPAC) which itself defends, tooth and nail, the interests of the State
of Israel, of which "the Holocaust" is the sword and shield. The mightiest
nations in the world can hardly allow themselves to annoy such a network of
pressure groups which, under a religious veneer, was at first a commercial concern
only to become later on military-commercial, constantly pushing for new
military adventures. It follows that if other countries, called "emerging",
want to be in good graces with a certain more powerful one, then they would be
well advised to bend to its wishes. Without necessarily professing their faith
in "the Holocaust", they will contribute, if need be, to the propagation of
"the Holocaust" and to the repression of those who dispute its reality. The
Chinese, for example, although they have no use at all for such nonsense
themselves, keep well away from any calling into question of the
"Jewish Holocaust"; this enables them to pose as the "Jews" of the
Japanese during the last war and so point out that they too have been victims
of genocide, a formula which, they think, may open the way to financial
reparations and political profits, as it has done for the Jews.
A
particularly mortal religion
The future trouble for the religion of "the Holocaust" lies in
the fact that it is too secular. Here one may well think of the Papacy, which,
in centuries past, drew its political and military strength from a temporal
power that, in the final analysis, ended up causing its downfall. The new
religion is hand in glove with, all together, the State of Israel, the United
States, the European Union, NATO, Russia, the big banks (which, as in the case
of the Swiss banks, it can force to knuckle under if they show unwillingness to
pay out), international racketeering and the arms merchants' lobbies. This
being the case, who can guarantee it a solid base in the future? It has made
itself vulnerable by endorsing, de facto, the policies of nations or groups
with inordinate appetites, whose spirit of worldwide crusade, as may be
particularly noted in the Near and Middle East, has become adventurist.
It has come to pass that religions disappear with the empires where
they used to reign. This is because religions, like civilisations, are mortal.
That of "the Holocaust" is doubly mortal: it spurs countries to go on warlike crusades
and it is rushing to its doom. It will rush to its doom even if, in the last
instance, the Jewish State vanishes from the land of Palestine. The Jews then
dispersed throughout the world will have only one last resort, that of
bewailing this "Second Holocaust".
Translator's note: the italicised English words are in English in the original.
NB: Already in 1980, in my book Mémoire en défense
contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire ("Statement of case
against those who accuse me of falsifying history", La Vieille Taupe, Paris), I
dealt with "the new religion" of "the Holocaust" (p. 261-263). In 2006 I wrote
two articles on the subject: "La 'Mémoire juive' contre l'Histoire ou
l'aversion juive pour toute recherche approfondie sur la Shoah" ("'Jewish
Remembrance' versus History, or the Jewish aversion to any thorough research on
the Shoah") and "Le prétendu 'Holocauste' des juifs se révčle de plus en plus
dangereux" ("The Alleged 'Holocaust' of the Jews is proving ever more
dangerous"). Both of those pieces have recently been published in Etudes
révisionnistes, vol. 5 (595 p.: p. 61-71, 86-90), available from Ed.
Akribeia, 45/3, Route de Vourles, F-69230 St-Genis-Laval, France, 35
euros. The second may be found in English translation at http://www.radioislam.org/faurisson/eng/holo-more-Dangerous.htm.
