Robert Faurisson | |
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 Faurisson in 2014 | |
| Born | Robert Faurisson Aitken 25 January 1929 Shepperton, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 21 October 2018 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Professor of literature |
| Known for | Holocaust denial |
| Criminal charges | Convicted of Holocaust denial in a French court |
Robert Faurisson (French: [foʁisɔ̃]; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018)[1] was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially Le Monde, which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank.[2] After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post.[3]
- ^ Le négationniste Robert Faurisson est mort (in French)
- ^ Charny, Israel W. (1999). Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 182. ISBN 9780874369281.
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