No-one wanted to restrict
academic freedom. . . but the
constitution forbids
xenophobia and holocaust
denial, and that this was a
greater principle.
-- France's Education Minister
Jack Lang
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1815000/1815912.stm
Tuesday, 12 February, 2002
France probes
'far-right' university
Several
Lyon academics have denied aspects of the
holocaust
David Irving comments:
THE water is already lapping
around the feet of the conformist
historians, and the only way they
can maintain their more absurd
and ridiculous stories is by
criminalising the dissemination
of the truth and persecuting
those who hold differing views.
France and Germany lead in this
Canutian exercise.
The University
of Lyons has produced some
academics of spectacular courage
including Prof. Robert Faurisson.
The University of Nantes produced
Henri Rocques whose doctorate was
awarded, then formally annulled,
as his thesis exposing the
infamous report of Kurt Gerstein
roused the outrage of the Jewish
community.
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A COMMISSION set up by the French
Government has begun investigating links
between the University of Lyon and the far
right.
The commission, consisting of
historians and other academics, will
examine how a whole series of professors
at the university have denied aspects of
the holocaust, or published openly racist
theses.
The six academics selected by the
Socialist-led
government will examine records dating
back to the late 1970s in an attempt to
determine whether or not Lyon actively
recruited people with extremist views.
Launching the commission's work,
France's Education Minister Jack
Lang said that no-one wanted to
restrict academic freedom, or the autonomy
of individual universities, but that the
constitution forbids xenophobia and
holocaust denial, and that this was a
greater principle.
BBC Paris correspondent James
Coomarasamy says the commission has
already proved highly controversial, even
before it has begun its work.
Two academics refused to head it, while
at Lyon itself there is a feeling that the
university has been unfairly represented,
and that the scandals there have been
blown out of all proportion.
The commission is being headed by
French historian Henry Rousso,
director of the National Center for
Scientific Research.
In a statement, the Education Ministry
said the purpose of the commission was to
"propose an interpretation based on
reliable
sources to avoid the double pitfalls of,
intentionally or not, concealing the past
and unjustifiably polarizing the
issue".
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Prof.
Robert Faurisson
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Dr
Henri Rocques
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WEBSITE
NOTE. Irresponsible elements
close to Prof. Robert
Faurisson have ascertained for
us the identities of the six
conformist historians forming
the learned and academic
"Commission on Racism and
Denial" ("Commission sur
le racisme et le
négationnisme"). Here
they are:
- Henry Rousso,
président :
[email protected]
- Annette Becker :
[email protected]
- Philippe Burrin :
[email protected]
- Daniel Filâtre :
[email protected]
- Pierre-André
Taguieff : [email protected]
- Florent Brayard :
[email protected]
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