Jean-Claude Pressac

Jean-Claude Pressac (1944 - July 23, 2003) was a French chemist and pharmacist who became a published authority on the Holocaust of World War II.

Pressac was originally a Holocaust denier who, with Robert Faurisson, attempted to disprove what he considered historically inaccurate depictions of the concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau as extermination camps. Upon visiting Auschwitz, however, Pressac was able to view first-hand the extensive archive of construction documents which had survived due to being located in the construction office rather than the administrative offices. These convinced him that his former views were in error, an event he describes in the postface of "Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers", saying that he "nearly did away with myself one evening in October 1979 in the main camp, the Stammlager, overwhelmed by the evidence and by despair".cite book
last = Pressac
first = Jean-Claude
title = Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers
url = http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation
accessdate = 2006-01-31
year = 1989
publisher = The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
location = New York
language = English
isbn =
pages = 537-564
chapter = Postface by the author
chapterurl = http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/pressac0537.shtml
quote = His position with respect to the extermination of the Jews at Birkenau and the personal experiences that led him to undertake this study ] He published his conclusions along with much of the underlying evidence in his 1989 book, "Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers"cite book
last = Pressac
first = Jean-Claude
title = Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers
url = http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/pressac/technique-and-operation/
accessdate = 2006-01-31
year = 1989
publisher = The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
location = New York
language = English
isbn = ] . In his 1993 "Les Crématoires d'Auschwitz" [cite book
last = Pressac
first = Jean-Claude
title = Les crématoires d'Auschwitz
origyear = 1993
accessdate = 2006-01-31
date = 1998-09-01
publisher = CNRS Éditions
language = French
isbn = 2271050936 ] , he further delineated the operation of the crematoria at Auschwitz, and their integration into the larger Nazi program to eradicate the Jews of Europe. Pressac estimates that between 631 000 and 711 000 were killed at Auschwitz. [cite book
last = Pressac
first = Jean-Claude
title = Die Krematorien von Auschwitz. Die Technik des Massenmordes
origyear = 1995
page = 202 ]

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* [http://www.phdn.org/negation/pressac-leuchter.html Jean-Claude Pressac. Les carences et incohérences du Rapport Leuchter, Jour J., la lettre télégraphique juive, December 12, 1988 ]
*Jean-Claude Pressac, Serge Klarsfeld. "THE STRUTHOF ALBUM. Study of the gassing at Natzweiler-Struthof of 86 Jews whose bodies were to constitute a collection of skeletons. A photographic document". New York : Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1985