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  "schema_version": 1,
  "scope": "Sources used only for the secondary Faurisson language-and-provenance inquiry.",
  "handling_note": "Denial-publisher and denial-archive materials are used as provenance exhibits for what their authors said and when, not as authorities on Holocaust history, chemistry, architecture, or forensic method.",
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      "id": "leuchter_1988_text_witness",
      "title": "An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland",
      "date": "1988",
      "type": "local PDF",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Leuchter_Line_by_Line/sources/original_editions/leuchter_report_samisdat_1988_extracted.pdf",
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      "relevance": "Report text, bibliography, and Faurisson foreword.",
      "caveat": "Authorized digital text witness carrying the Samisdat 1988 notice; not a page-faithful scan of the original paper object."
    },
    {
      "id": "faurisson_mechanics_scan",
      "title": "The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 1, no. 1, including Robert Faurisson, The Mechanics of Gassing",
      "date": "Spring 1980",
      "type": "local PDF scan",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Leuchter_Line_by_Line/sources/provenance/faurisson/jhr_v1n1_spring_1980.pdf",
      "source_url": "https://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/v1%231.pdf",
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      "relevance": "Contemporaneous page images for Faurisson's pre-report argument program.",
      "caveat": "Scanned from a denial publication and used only as a primary provenance witness."
    },
    {
      "id": "letters_1978_1979_text",
      "title": "Faurisson's Three Letters to Le Monde (1978-1979)",
      "date": "1978-1979; authorized English translation republished 2013",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2013/faurissons-three-letters-to-le-monde-1978-1979/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://codoh.com/library/document/faurissons-three-letters-to-le-monde-1978-1979/",
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      "relevance": "Pre-report comparison witness for exact English phrase testing.",
      "caveat": "Later English translation and republication; the editorial introduction is excluded from the comparison."
    },
    {
      "id": "mechanics_1980_text",
      "title": "The Mechanics of Gassing",
      "date": "Spring 1980",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2012/the-mechanics-of-gassing/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://ihr.org/journal/v01p-23_faurisson",
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      "relevance": "The strongest pre-report witness to the report's inherited argument architecture and a source named in the report bibliography.",
      "caveat": "Archive transcription checked against the 1980 scan for the displayed passages."
    },
    {
      "id": "physically_inconceivable_text",
      "title": "The Gas Chambers of Auschwitz Appear to be Physically Inconceivable",
      "date": "1980 or earlier; English republication witness archived 2012",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2012/the-gas-chambers-of-auschwitz-appear-to-be/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://codoh.com/library/document/the-gas-chambers-of-auschwitz-appear-to-be/",
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      "relevance": "Pre-report comparison witness for exact English phrase testing.",
      "caveat": "Publication and translation history is less secure than the 1980 scan; used conservatively."
    },
    {
      "id": "truth_or_lie_text",
      "title": "The Gas Chambers: Truth or Lie?",
      "date": "1980 interview; English republication witness archived 2012",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2012/the-gas-chambers-truth-or-lie/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://codoh.com/library/document/the-gas-chambers-truth-or-lie/",
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      "relevance": "Pre-report comparison witness for exact English phrase testing.",
      "caveat": "Only answer blocks attributed to Faurisson are included; interviewer questions are excluded."
    },
    {
      "id": "paper_historian_text",
      "title": "Response to a Paper Historian",
      "date": "1982; expanded December 1982; English publication 1986",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2012/response-to-a-paper-historian/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://www.ihr.org/journal/v07index.html",
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      "relevance": "Pre-report comparison witness for exact English phrase testing.",
      "caveat": "English publication witness; translation and later archive transcription may differ from the French editions."
    },
    {
      "id": "rudolf_ghostwriting_allegation",
      "title": "On the Use and Misuse of Pen Names",
      "date": "2025",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2025/on-the-use-and-misuse-of-pen-names/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://codoh.com/library/document/on-the-use-and-misuse-of-pen-names/",
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      "relevance": "The direct published ghostwriting allegation: Germar Rudolf's recollection of what Faurisson allegedly said in a private 1999-2000 phone call.",
      "caveat": "A decades-later recollection of an unrecorded private conversation, not contemporaneous documentation of composition."
    },
    {
      "id": "leuchter_authorship_reaffirmation",
      "title": "Who Wrote the Leuchter Report / 2015 Fred Leuchter interview summary",
      "date": "Interview 2015; archive summary 2020",
      "type": "local text witness",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Journal_Archives/codoh/2020/who-wrote-leuchter-report/text.txt",
      "source_url": "https://codoh.com/library/document/who-wrote-leuchter-report/",
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      "relevance": "Records Leuchter's later reaffirmation that he wrote the report.",
      "caveat": "Later testimony and a partisan archive summary; weaker than a contemporaneous draft or correspondence."
    },
    {
      "id": "butz_collaboration_assessment",
      "title": "Festschrift for Robert Faurisson: Arthur Butz contribution",
      "date": "2004",
      "type": "local PDF",
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Leuchter_Line_by_Line/sources/provenance/faurisson/rf-exactitude.pdf",
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      "relevance": "Butz wrote that Faurisson asked the vital questions that led directly to the report and that the work should have been formally co-authored.",
      "caveat": "An assessment of intellectual contribution, not eyewitness evidence that Faurisson drafted the report's English prose."
    }
  ],
  "unresolved_or_excluded": [
    {
      "path": "/Volumes/Holocaust/projects/Leuchter_Line_by_Line/sources/provenance/faurisson/jhr_v4n1_spring_1983.pdf",
      "status": "excluded",
      "reason": "Downloaded during discovery after a volume-number ambiguity; it is not used in the analysis."
    },
    {
      "status": "not located",
      "reason": "No contemporaneous draft, tracked manuscript, correspondence about wording, or recorded statement by Faurisson claiming authorship has been located."
    }
  ]
}