A Study of Guilt: The Eichmann Story

J.L. Granatstein is a history professor at York University and author of
War and Peacekeeping and For Better or For Worse.

The Holocaust, the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, continues
to hang over the 20th century. In Europe and North America, so-called
“revisionists” and pro-Nazis have argued with spurious logic that
the Holocaust never existed, or, if there were killings, they were far
fewer than the usual figure of six million. Against this argument stands
a massive weight of scholarship, based on masses of documentation.

This small book, written by a Brandon University professor just before
his death in 1991, is not a major contribution to the debate. Henry
Francq set out to examine Adolf Eichmann’s story, using this as a
vehicle to refute the revisionists. His work, sloppily produced by his
publisher, raises good arguments, but the research base is too thin to
be anything like a definitive study. Even so, the message conveyed by
this book is unambiguous: the Holocaust happened and the revisionists
are flatly wrong.