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Orthodox historian admits no evidence for gas chambers

An Orthodox Historian Finally Acknowledges:
There is No Evidence for Nazi Gas Chambers.

“it is necessary to recognize that the lack of traces involves the inability to directly establish the reality of the existence of homicidal gas chambers.”

Robert Faurisson
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"Born in 1939, Jacques Baynac [pictured] is a French historian who is the author of several books.1 A scholar whose sympathies lean to the left, he harbors a definite hostility toward revisionists (whom he calls “deniers”), and particularly toward revisionist writer and publisher Pierre Guillaume and myself. For years he affirmed the existence of Nazi homicidal gas chambers.

In 1996, though, Baynac acknowledged in two lengthy articles published in a Swiss daily newspaper that, taking everything into account, one is forced to admit – even if it is “as painful to say as it is to hear” – that the well-known “testimonies” are not sufficient proof of wartime homicidal gas chambers, and that it is simply not possible to prove, scientifically, that the homicidal gas chambers actually existed.

Given this lack of any direct proof, he continued, it will now be necessary to seek an indirect proof. Because one cannot prove that Nazi gas chambers existed, he goes on to write, it will instead be necessary to prove that it is impossible that they did not exist! Specifically, he writes: “If scholarly history cannot, because of the lack of documentation, establish the reality of a fact, it can, by means of documentation, establish that the unreality of this fact is itself unreal.”

Baynac made these remarkable statements in two lengthy articles published in the Swiss newspaper Le Nouveau Quotidien de Lausanne, September 2, 1996 (p. 16), and September 3, 1996 (p. 14).

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Baynac recalls the admission made in 1988 by Jewish-American historian Arno Mayer, who teaches at Princeton University: “Sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once rare and unreliable.”5 Baynac goes on to say that “we do not have available indispensable elements for a normal undertaking of the historical method,” and that “one must remain silent for lack of documents.” He concludes with a remarkable concession: “it is necessary to recognize that the lack of traces involves the inability to directly establish the reality of the existence of homicidal gas chambers.”6 When he writes “the lack of traces,” he means, as already mentioned, “the absence of documents, traces, or other material proofs.”"

Witness statements are worthless

“For the scientific historian a witness statement does not represent real history. It is an object of history. A witness statement counts for little, many witnesses' statements count for no more, if there is no solid document to support them. One could say without much exaggeration, the principle of scientific historiography is, No paper(s), no proven facts.”

- Jacques Baynac, Sept 3, 1997
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