It seems to me that all the extracts given in the preceding pages prove, WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A DOUBT, that the annihilations of non-Aryans, gypsies, and Jews were in complete harmony (a shame to use such a word), with the feelings and objectives of Hitler and of the accomplices he had chosen to carry out his will.

        For those of you "young readers" who might still feel a hovering doubt, who are obscurely tempted to give the Revisionists at least the benefit of doubt, I strongly recommend reading Deborah Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, edited by the Free Press.

        Besides an in-depth study of the origin, development, tactic of the protagonists of the denial and a complete critic of their affirmations and arguments, this book gives a remarkable psychological study of what makes some people Revisionists and some young people tempted to listen to them. It also gives a host of material facts confirming that many (not all, of course) people were gassed: the bills of the companies that made or repaired the gassing installations, the fact that the showers in the so-called shower rooms (really gas rooms) were fixed to the ceiling on a piece of wood and had no connecting pipes to bring the water; the peepholes in the doors of the gassing rooms which would have been unnecessary in the doors of delousing rooms, etc., etc., etc.

        Whatever the number of people killed and the methods used, may this note help the young generation to realize that the Nazi crimes derive their particularly diabolical character from the fact that they attack the soul of man, even when his body may be spared.

Rémi BOISSONNAS
1997

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