[Today's guest post is by Gilles Karmasyn, the creator of the great website Pratique de l’histoire
et dévoiements négationnistes AKA PHDN. Please note that our opinions don't necessarily correspond to those of our guests.]
The most publicly active French denier is Vincent Reynouard. Most of the English-speaking people don't know him as he is pretty insignificant, but lately some of his videos have been subtitled in English. Vincent Reynouard is a self-proclaimed Nazi- and Hitler-lover. Most of his production is inspired by the ill-digested logorrhea from Mattogno and Rudolf. Lately he mainly appears in videos where he explains how beautiful and generous Nazism was and how much a man of peace Hitler was (some of the videos are called "The National Socialist hope", "The truth about the Gestapo", "The real criminals against peace, how the 'good ones' were intolerant and warmongers", and so on). Of course, denying the Holocaust is his main thing.
He can be quite funny and pathetic at the same time. One of his favorite hobbies is beating dead horses. In a September 2015 video Reynouard claimed that hydrogen cyanide (HCN, the deadly gas released by Zyklon B) evaporates slowly, even though precisely the opposite is true. He claimed in that same video that to kill human beings with hydrogen cyanide requires a 7500 ppm concentration at least for 10 minutes. That's 25 times the established lethal dose! (Well, why not? Does not water boil at 2500°C?) Moreover he keeps repeating the long-debunked scientific nonsense that Prussian blue (ferrocyanide family compounds) must absolutely appear whenever hydrogen cyanide is used. This comes, of course, straight from Rudolf and Leuchter and has been debunked over and over (and over) by Dr. Richard J. Green.
But sometimes he manages to be creative and comes up with a tremendous and hilarious new lie. Basically everyone in the anti-denial community knows about the Polish 1994 expert report which found significant HCN traces in Auschwitz at the very locations where so many witnesses had told about murder by gas and that Markiewicz and the other experts explicitly used methods THAT DO NOT look for Prussian blue, but for the OTHER cyanide residues. They described it in the very article that revealed the results of their study. They did that because they knew that Prussian blue is not bound to form in all cases of HCN use, especially in gas chambers where human beings were murdered in Auschwitz.
What does Reynouard claim? Of course, like Leuchter and Rudolf, in that same September 2015 video he claims something like "Hey, see? No blue staining in the so called gas chambers! No blue staining means no HCN use! No gas chamber!". Well, nothing new here. We know of course no blue staining just means no Prussian blue, no less and no more, and that HCN does leave other cyanide residues (found by Markiewicz et al.). Again, nothing new.
Then, out of the blue, Reynouard repeats SIX times that Markiewicz claimed to have found... FERROcyanide (aka Prussian blue)! Well, they did NOT, because of course they were looking explicitly for other cyanide residues (and found some). Reynouard repeats the same exact incredibly huge and ridiculous lie six times! And then, with a pathetic and clownish self-righteousness he concludes: since they found FERROcyanide but one cannot see the blue staining, the 1994 Polish expertise is just trash and the gas chambers did not exist. Not a single denier had previously dared to lie so outrageously about the nature and content of the 1994 Polish study just to dismiss it and insult its authors.
Very satisfied with himself, he then keeps elaborating about how strong the simple Truth (capital T) is and declares that he (understand: contrary to everyone else in the Universe) works on concrete and solid ground.
Frankly, if I were a denier, I would feel much embarrassed by being associated with such a profoundly clownish falsifier. (Or would I?)
French-reading folks can get all the gory details of that story on the French anti-Holocaust-denial website (whose director I am): Imposture & Stupidité: quatre mensonges consternants de Vincent Reynouard sur les chambres à gaz.
et dévoiements négationnistes AKA PHDN. Please note that our opinions don't necessarily correspond to those of our guests.]
The most publicly active French denier is Vincent Reynouard. Most of the English-speaking people don't know him as he is pretty insignificant, but lately some of his videos have been subtitled in English. Vincent Reynouard is a self-proclaimed Nazi- and Hitler-lover. Most of his production is inspired by the ill-digested logorrhea from Mattogno and Rudolf. Lately he mainly appears in videos where he explains how beautiful and generous Nazism was and how much a man of peace Hitler was (some of the videos are called "The National Socialist hope", "The truth about the Gestapo", "The real criminals against peace, how the 'good ones' were intolerant and warmongers", and so on). Of course, denying the Holocaust is his main thing.
He can be quite funny and pathetic at the same time. One of his favorite hobbies is beating dead horses. In a September 2015 video Reynouard claimed that hydrogen cyanide (HCN, the deadly gas released by Zyklon B) evaporates slowly, even though precisely the opposite is true. He claimed in that same video that to kill human beings with hydrogen cyanide requires a 7500 ppm concentration at least for 10 minutes. That's 25 times the established lethal dose! (Well, why not? Does not water boil at 2500°C?) Moreover he keeps repeating the long-debunked scientific nonsense that Prussian blue (ferrocyanide family compounds) must absolutely appear whenever hydrogen cyanide is used. This comes, of course, straight from Rudolf and Leuchter and has been debunked over and over (and over) by Dr. Richard J. Green.
But sometimes he manages to be creative and comes up with a tremendous and hilarious new lie. Basically everyone in the anti-denial community knows about the Polish 1994 expert report which found significant HCN traces in Auschwitz at the very locations where so many witnesses had told about murder by gas and that Markiewicz and the other experts explicitly used methods THAT DO NOT look for Prussian blue, but for the OTHER cyanide residues. They described it in the very article that revealed the results of their study. They did that because they knew that Prussian blue is not bound to form in all cases of HCN use, especially in gas chambers where human beings were murdered in Auschwitz.
What does Reynouard claim? Of course, like Leuchter and Rudolf, in that same September 2015 video he claims something like "Hey, see? No blue staining in the so called gas chambers! No blue staining means no HCN use! No gas chamber!". Well, nothing new here. We know of course no blue staining just means no Prussian blue, no less and no more, and that HCN does leave other cyanide residues (found by Markiewicz et al.). Again, nothing new.
Then, out of the blue, Reynouard repeats SIX times that Markiewicz claimed to have found... FERROcyanide (aka Prussian blue)! Well, they did NOT, because of course they were looking explicitly for other cyanide residues (and found some). Reynouard repeats the same exact incredibly huge and ridiculous lie six times! And then, with a pathetic and clownish self-righteousness he concludes: since they found FERROcyanide but one cannot see the blue staining, the 1994 Polish expertise is just trash and the gas chambers did not exist. Not a single denier had previously dared to lie so outrageously about the nature and content of the 1994 Polish study just to dismiss it and insult its authors.
Very satisfied with himself, he then keeps elaborating about how strong the simple Truth (capital T) is and declares that he (understand: contrary to everyone else in the Universe) works on concrete and solid ground.
Frankly, if I were a denier, I would feel much embarrassed by being associated with such a profoundly clownish falsifier. (Or would I?)
French-reading folks can get all the gory details of that story on the French anti-Holocaust-denial website (whose director I am): Imposture & Stupidité: quatre mensonges consternants de Vincent Reynouard sur les chambres à gaz.