As the author states at the outset of this Introduction to the first four volumes of his collected revisionist writings (écrits révisionnistes), they amount to a chronicle of the historical studies that he began not in 1974 but in 1960, and continued till his very last day in October 2018.
It was in 1960 that, perusing the German weekly Die Zeit, Robert Faurisson came upon an article by the head of a leading historical institute that singularly gripped his attention: “No gassing in Dachau”. The significance of this, as he grasped immediately, went far beyond that particular wartime camp (until then unquestioningly acknowledged, even by him, as having been an “extermination gassing center”), for the simple reason that the accusation against Germany of having systematically murdered millions of civilian inmates in gas chambers in numerous other camps – a monstrous crime unparalleled in all history both in its magnitude and its “industrial” character – was made on precisely the same grounds as those regarding Dachau, now admitted to be invalid…