← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · arkady
Thread ID: 11006 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-11-09
2003-11-09 19:25 | User Profile
I posted this question to the Stormfront forum last week, but got no informative responses. Hopefully someone here on OD will have some knowledge on this topic:
A friend of mine recently picked up a rather strange set of books at a yard sale, and I wonder if anyone around here can tell me anything about them.
The set is bound in black and red, with a Third Reich eagle-and-swastika on the spine -- which is odd, since they're about as anti-Nazi as it's possible to get. They purport to have been written by someone named "Christian Bernadac," and they comprise a series of fairly standard horror stories about the Evil Nazi War Crimes(c) of WWII. The titles are fairly lurid -- "Camp for Women," "Nazi Doctors," etc. -- and in the main, they're a regurgitation of every sadistic Nazi horror story you've ever heard or read. I'm surprised Spielberg hasn't made a "mini-series" out of this stuff.
The publisher is supposedly the "Ferni Publishing House," with an imprint date of 1987. The original copyright is given as "France-Empire Paris" in 1968.
The whole thing is a little surreal. I'd like to be able to tell my friend something about this stuff, but none of my research or web searches have turned up anything useful.
A Google search on "Ferni Publishing House" returned 19 entries, almost all of which were nothing but references to the fact that the books exist in various libraries, or touting them as part of various "Holocaust bibliographies." No background material at all.
The search on "Christian Bernadac" returned 375 hits, but most of them were in French; the ones in English are, again, mainly pointers to library collections or recommendations from jewish organizations. Once more, nothing substantive. What I'd like to know aout Ferni is: Who they are, who's bankrolling them (I can't imagine that this set ever made anything approaching a profit) and do they have an agenda. And what I'd like to know about Bernadac himself is how reliable his testimony actually is. The whole thing smells to me like an elaborate exercise in propaganda, but there seems to be very little information in English as to how trustworthy this material is or isn't.
Anyone know anything about this?