ZGram - 11/10/2002 - "French encyclopedia ordered to remove offensive Holocaust passage"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

November 10, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Well, here we are again - "French encyclopedia ordered to remove 
offensive Holocaust passage".  How long will this carry on?  By the 
way, try to find the so-called "Holocaust" as conventionally 
understood in any 1950s-1960s encyclopedia!

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS - A French court on Wednesday ordered the publishers of 
France's leading reference book to remove from its next edition a 
revisionist historian's claim that the figure of 6 million deaths 
during the Holocaust was grossly exaggerated. Five French Jewish 
groups had launched the legal action against the encylopedia-like 
reference guide, Quid, saying the passage violated a French law that 
makes it illegal to publish revisionist theories. The Jewish groups 
demanded that Quid publishers retract the 300,000 copies of its 2003 
edition, which had already been sent to stores.

Judge Marie-Therese Feydau refused to grant the request, but ordered 
the publishers to remove the offensive passage from its 2004 edition 
as well as from its Internet site. Publishers were also ordered to 
send a correction notice to all book shops where Quid is sold and to 
insert the correction in the 100,000 copies still being printed. They 
were also ordered to publish the correction in three daily newspapers 
and two weeklies. "We are satisfied," said Patrick Klugman, president 
of the Union of Jewish Students of France. "'Never again' must not be 
an expression said in vain. The duty to remember must begin with 
those who manufacture knowledge."

The lawsuit, against Encyclopedies Quid and its publisher, Robert 
Laffont, was a followup to a similar suit filed in 2001. The 
offensive passage was ordered removed by 2003. The Quid is updated 
each year. In a section on World War II extermination camps, the book 
says that the official number of deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau was 1.2 
million. However, it adds that "other figures have circulated," and 
cites one by a revisionist historian, Robert Faurisson, who claims 
that 150,000 people died at the camp, of which 100,000 were Jews.

The Quid, a single volume 2,000-paged reference guide, is known in 
France as the book that holds the answers to all questions. It is an 
essential tool for researchers and found in many French households. 
The book's publisher said it had no immediate comment.

Subject: 2003 Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:53:50 +0100