In honour of the great revisionist scholar Professor Robert Faurisson, an international prize was instituted in 2019 (three months after the professor’s death) by his great friend Joe Fallisi, Italian tenor and human rights activist.
The inaugural winner of the Prize was the heroic German writer, educator and publisher Ursula Haverbeck, and subsequent winners were her fellow revisionists Vincent Reynouard (2020), Wolfgang Fröhlich (2021), and Monika and Alfred Schaefer (2022).
This year with the relaxation of pandemic restrictions it was in theory possible for the Prize ceremony to be held again (as it had been in 2019 and 2020) in Vichy, the city where Robert Faurisson lived for more than fifty years and where he is buried.
The Mayor of Vichy intervened with an extraordinary banning order, but friends of historical truth were nevertheless able to gather, to hear Joe Fallisi announce the winner of the 2023 Robert Faurisson International Prize – Germar Rudolf, today the world’s most eminent revisionist scientist.
Now aged 58, Germar Rudolf was born in Germany where he graduated in chemistry and (after military service) began work at the prestigious Max Planck Institute in 1990. He was dismissed by the Institute in 1994 after writing a detailed analysis of the purported homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Rudolf drew attention to the fact that only insignificant traces of cyanide compounds can be found in areas where substantial residue ought to exist (had the orthodox history been correct).
Defying repeated prosections, and undeterred by serving a prison sentence during 2007-2009 in his native Germany, Germar Rudolf has published several diligently researched and rigorously argued works on this topic, including The Chemistry of Auschwitz-The Technology and Toxicology of Zyklon B and the Gas Chambers – A Crime-Scene Investigation.
The award plaque for 2023 reads: “To Germar Rudolf, excellent, courageous, and indomitable researcher and militant of the cause of historical revisionism – Vichy, 25 January 2023”.
On behalf of the Prize Committee, Joe Fallisi said: “The memory of our beloved Professor and the example of fortitude, dignity, and intelligence that he was able to give with his tireless commitment and life’s work are more alive than ever and will remain forever.”
