Garaudy converted to Islam in 1982, and has been engaging in the same kind of historical revisionism and appropriation of history that other Muslims use so energetically to try to discredit Israel and turn world opinion against Jews in general. All this is in a larger sense on a continuum with the theological and historical deligitimization that is an aspect and consequence of dhimmitude. “French Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy on Iranian TV: Gas Chambers Were Not Used to Kill Jews,” from MEMRITV, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Following are excerpts from an interview with French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, which was broadcast on Iranian TV Channel 1 on December 13, 2005….
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The only film presented to the judges in the Nuremberg trials showed the Dachau gas chamber. The construction of the Dachau gas chamber was never completed, and it was never used. Since this gas chamber was never completed, yet the film presented at Nuremberg portrayed it as if it were completed, this film must have been a means of deception by American agencies stationed at Dachau.
This film is always shown to tourists, since the eye-witness testimony has already been accepted as fact, and the existence of gas chambers during the Third Reich is considered an indisputable fact. One must therefore conclude that no Jews or other prisoners were killed by poisonous gas – not in Dachau, Bergen, or Buchenwald.