For Adelaide Institute (South Australia),
a 25 minute video
Vichy, France
Sunday, 19 July 1998
Robert Faurisson
* Bridge on the river Allier. Traffic. Roadsign: `VICHY'.
* Faurisson at home. His opening words were "Dear Dr Töben,
dear Mr Brockschmidt," but the young cameraman, a novice,
missed the very beginning so that, as the video starts, one hears
only "Dear Mr Brockschmidt".
* The Professor tells of how he recently explained the revisionist
view of a part of the Second World War to a young Russian as he
was showing him around the city, pointing out three particular
sites within 300 metres of one another:
1. the First World War Memorial, with its two long lists of French
servicemen killed between 1914 and 1918;
2. the Casino, in whose theatre the French parliament met on the
10th of July 1940 and voted plenary powers to Marshal Pétain;
3. the Hôtel du Parc, the Marshal's wartime residence until
his arrest and evacuation by the Germans on 17 August 1944.
* Faurisson announces that, as a safety precaution (and particularly
for the sake of the cameraman), he will deliver his commentary
not at these spots, where it normally should be given, but back
at the house.
* After that presentation the two men go out to the three spots,
which are all shown, the last one rather quickly because of the
impossibility of getting a shot of the Klarsfeld plaque inside.
* Then, suddenly, Faurisson is seen in a park close by his house,
at a fourth, unannounced spot: it is the place where, on the 16th
of September 1989, he was attacked and seriously injured by three
Jewish thugs who had come for that purpose from Paris. No-one
has ever even been brought in for questioning about this crime,
which was indeed attempted murder.
* Next he is seen back at home, standing on his balcony rather
than seated. He explains how, just as Voltaire in his fight against
what he called "superstition", the revisionists will
neither win nor lose their battle with a very powerful "superstition":
the religion of the Shoah backed up by all the might of Shoah
business.
The viewer is asked to be so good as to bear in mind that:
1. this was the young cameraman's first experience with video
production;
2. Faurisson had agreed, upon request, to keep the running time
under 30 minutes;
3. there was neither a "first draft" nor any interruption,
and neither cutting nor editing.
Had he had more time Faurisson would have included a summary of
the end of his conversation with the young Russian (enrolled in
a political science programme at a University 0n the outskirts
of Paris), and thus spoken of the following:
1. his thoughts on Marshal Pétain, on Pierre Laval (a sort
of Prime Minister of the Vichy government), and on the Germans
before and after 8 May 1945;
2. the fact that, for many people, the principal reason why it
was right to collaborate with Germany was not at all antisemitism
but rather anti-communism;
3. the reason why the revisionists challenge the official (in
fact the Jewish) version of World War II.
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