Lee Jaffe probably had in mind the French Catholic chemistry professor Jean-Claude Pressac who was first denier of Holocaust and then became convinced in the true facts of Holocaust, subsequently authoring a number of the books on Holocaust.
See about him Wikipedia article Jean-Claude Pressac From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean-Claude Pressac (1944 - July 23, 2003) was a French chemist and pharmacist who became a published authority on the Holocaust of World War II. Pressac was originally a Holocaust denier who, with Robert Faurisson, attempted to disprove what he considered historically inaccurate depictions of the concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau as extermination camps. Upon visiting Auschwitz, however, Pressac was able to view first-hand the extensive archive of construction documents which had survived due to being located in the construction office rather than the administrative offices. These convinced him that his former views were in error, an event he describes in the postface of Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers, saying that he "nearly did away with myself one evening in October 1979 in the main camp, the Stammlager, overwhelmed by the evidence and by despair". [1] He published his conclusions along with much of the underlying evidence in his 1989 book, Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers [2] . In his 1993 Les Cr?matoires d'Auschwitz [3] , he further delineated the operation of the crematoria at Auschwitz, and their integration into the larger Nazi program to eradicate the Jews of Europe. Pressac estimates that between 631 000 and 711 000 were killed at Auschwitz.[4] [edit] References ^ Pressac, Jean-Claude (1989). "Postface by the author" (in English). Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation. pp. 537-564. http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/pressac0537.shtml. Retrieved on 2006-01-31. "His position with respect to the extermination of the Jews at Birkenau and the personal experiences that led him to undertake this study" ^ Pressac, Jean-Claude (1989) (in English). Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation. http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/. Retrieved on 2006-01-31. ^ Pressac, Jean-Claude (1998-09-01) [1993] (in French). Les cr?matoires d'Auschwitz. CNRS ?ditions. ISBN 2271050936. ^ Pressac, Jean-Claude. Die Krematorien von Auschwitz. Die Technik des Massenmordes. p. 202. [edit] Bibliography Jean-Claude Pressac. Les carences et incoh?rences du Rapport Leuchter, Jour J., la lettre t?l?graphique juive, December 12, 1988 Jean-Claude Pressac, Serge Klarsfeld. THE STRUTHOF ALBUM. Study of the gassing at Natzweiler-Struthof of 86 Jews whose bodies were to constitute a collection of skeletons. A photographic document. New York : Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1985 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Pressac"; --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
