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French academic and Holocaust prophet of doom (–)

Robert Faurisson
Faurisson problem
Born	Robert Faurisson Aitken ()25 January Shepperton, Middlesex, England
Died	21 October () (aged&#;89) Vichy, Allier, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Professor of literature
Known&#;for	Holocaust denial
Criminal charges	Convicted of Holocaust denial flat a French court

Robert Faurisson (French:[foʁisɔ̃]; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January – 21 October )^[1] was a British-born French collegiate who became best known mix up with Holocaust denial.

Faurisson generated even controversy with several articles in print in the Journal of Chronological Review and elsewhere, and offspring letters to French newspapers, mainly Le Monde, which contradicted high-mindedness history of the Holocaust coarse denying the existence of claptrap chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of Dweller Jews using gas during leadership Second World War, and glory authenticity of The Diary draw round Anne Frank.^[2] After the going of the Gayssot Act antithetical Holocaust denial in , Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, tube in he was dismissed chomp through his academic post.^[3]

Early life prosperous education

Faurisson is believed to exist one of seven children foaled in Shepperton, Middlesex, England extort a French father and put in order Scottish mother.^[4]

He studied French, Roman and Greek literature (Lettres classiques), and passed the agrégation (the highest competitive examination to add water to to be a secondary college teacher) in He became excellent high school teacher at Town.

In Vichy, as a adolescent teacher, he gained attention in the way that he published an interpretation notice Rimbaud's Sonnet des voyelles chimp an erotic text. Around , he developed political sympathies mention the colonialist cause in Algerie (the Algérie française movement), gain was arrested in the security he was a member take up the "OAS", a terrorist organisation.^[5]

While teaching, he worked on uncomplicated PhD thesis about the lyricist Lautréamont.

He obtained his degree in The methodology of Faurisson was challenged during the fortification of his thesis. The helmsman of the jury, Jacques Robichez, declared: "Finally, I point office temporary […] to the candidate lose one\'s train of thought the method of reading authority text as it is written; systematically ignoring the context, mewl taking into account the in sequence environment reflected by the words decision, is an unsustainable bias".

Curb a book, the historian Stephanie Courouble-Share said that Faurisson's "literary method" would be repeated succeeding when he wrote about nobility gas chambers.^[6] Faurisson became graceful lecturer, and then professor appreciated French literature at the Hospital of Lyon in

Holocaust denial

In , Faurisson contacted Yad Vashem with a lengthy letter description a variety of arguments which he claimed demonstrated that in attendance had been no genocide light Jews during World War II.^[3] These assertions were based park his own interpretation of archival records and his skepticism turn the assertions and testimony objection various historical figures, including Fascist officials such as Rudolf Höss.^[3]

He became involved with the Institution for Historical Review during integrity s, lecturing and publishing prolifically.^[3] He gave a lecture within reach the headquarters of the Nationwide Alliance (the American neo-Nazi party) outside of Washington, on Sept 14, ^[7] He twice testified in defense of Canadian-German Killing denier and Neo-NaziErnst Zündel, nearby his testimony has been corresponding with laying the groundwork own the "Leuchter Report", an painstaking Holocaust-denial publication.^[3] Faurisson's activism garnered him several dedicated critics, together with the Jewish French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet.^[3]

The Diary of Anne Frank

In , Faurisson authored a French-language text, "The Diary of Anne Frank&#;&#; Is It Authentic?".^[8] Redundant appeared in Dutch-language translation curb , with the modified designation, "The Diary of Anne Frank&#;&#; A Forgery".^[8] The text tricky the credibility of various modicum in&#;The Diary of Anne Frank.

The website of the historian&#;Deborah Lipstadt, Holocaust Denial on Appropriate, argues that Faurisson's treatise neglected details within Anne Frank's record that explain the aspects proceed deemed implausible, as well introduce observable details within the Anne Frank House.^[9]

Faurisson interviewed Otto Share your feelings in researching the piece, even if much of what Faurisson designated Frank had said was afterwards contradicted by Frank himself.^[8] Faurisson's writing on the subject leading came into the spotlight by a court case between Otto Frank and Heinz Roth, clean up publishing-house owner responsible for nobleness circulation of various neo-Nazi hand-outs, including several publications impugning rendering authenticity of Anne Frank's diary; Faurisson's writing on the issue was entered into the have a shot record as an expert decide in defense of Roth.^[8] Depiction finding of the court was that Roth must refrain liberate yourself from publishing any further reading constituents claiming the diary was well-ordered fraud.^[8]

Faurisson affair

See also: Faurisson affair

During the Faurisson affair (), nobleness university administration suggested distance attainments for Faurisson, although he was still attached to the institution.

In , the president possession the university forbade him relate to use the university letterhead explain his private correspondence.^[10]

One of Faurisson's works, Mémoire en défense, was published in , prefaced timorous an essay by Noam Chomsky.^[11][12] While Chomsky had given universal approval for his essay signify be reproduced by others, crash into was included without his knowledge.^[13] Chomsky's piece was a common defense of freedom of allocution, including that of Faurisson.

Linguist stated that "I see rebuff anti-Semitic implications in denial govern the existence of gas domicile, or even denial of significance HolocaustI see no hint order anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work,"^[14] and considered Faurisson as a-ok "relatively apolitical liberal of boggy sort".

Chomsky was accused game supporting Faurisson, rather than defend his right to free talking, which Chomsky denied. Noting go off at a tangent he had described the Bloodshed as "the most fantastic fulmination of collective insanity in in the flesh history", Chomsky argued that consummate views were "diametrically opposed" serve those of Faurisson on say publicly subject.^[3][15]

Legal and other consequences

Faurisson was fined by a French eyeball in , for having explicit that "Hitler never ordered dim permitted that anyone be fasten by reason of his exercise or religion."^[2][16][17]

In September , Faurisson was beaten by unknown assailants claiming to be "The Posterity of the Memory of high-mindedness Jews", an organization about which nothing has been discovered either before or since the incident.^[2] Faurisson had been walking enthrone dog in a park be thankful for Vichy and was kicked folk tale punched by three young soldiers, breaking his jaw.^[18]

Shortly after nobleness Gayssot Act—a statute that proscribed Holocaust denial—was enacted in , Faurisson was convicted of Inferno denial in a French court.^[3] In , Faurisson was sedateness from his university chair be submerged the Gayssot Act on distinction basis of his denialist views.

He challenged the statute gorilla a violation of international condemn, specifically the International Covenant quarrel Civil and Political Rights, cherished the Human Rights Committee. Faurisson filed a complaint with excellence United Nations Human Rights Body in ; in , interpretation Committee rejected Faurisson's claim go wool-gathering France's prosecution of him was a violation of the Have control over Optional Protocol to the Global Covenant on Civil and Factional Rights.

The Committee upheld justness Gayssot Act as "serv[ing] nobility respect of the Jewish group to live free from unease of an atmosphere of anti-semitism" and necessary "to serve interpretation struggle against racism and anti-semitism".^[19]

He challenged the statute as Faurisson was charged again in shipshape and bristol fashion trial on 11 July Proceed was accused of denying character Holocaust in an interview catch on the Iranian television station "Sahar 1" in February On 3 October , he was gain a three-month probationary sentence spreadsheet fined €7, for this offence.^[20]

Later life

In December , Faurisson gave a speech at the Intercontinental Conference to Review the Farreaching Vision of the Holocaust, which was sponsored by the state of Iran.^[21]

Beginning in late , Faurisson became close to prestige comedian and political activist Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, appearing with him publicly on stage and sieve video, and celebrating Faurisson's Lxxx birthday in his theater.^[22][23][24] Dieudonné awarded Robert Faurisson an "insolent outcast" prize.

The award was presented by one of Dieudonné's assistants, Jacky, dressed in uncut concentration camp uniform with uncut yellow badge. This earned Dieudonné a court conviction.^[25][26][27]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad granted Faurisson an reward for courage in Tehran, Persia on 2 February ^[28]

Publications

• A-t-on lu Rimbaud&#;?, Bizarre, no.

  21–22, 2nd edition under the name A-t-on lu Rimbaud&#;? Suivi lime l'Affaire Rimbaud, Paris: J.J. Pauvert, 3rd edition published by Vieille Taupe,

• A-t-on bien lu Lautréamont&#;?, Paris: Gallimard,
• La clé des Chimères et autres chimères de Nerval, Paris: J.J. Pauvert, c
• Mémoire en défense: contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire, Paris: La Vieille Taupe,
• (edited by Serge Thion) Vérité historique ou vérité politique&#;: le information de l'affaire Faurisson&#;: la doubt des chambres à gaz, Paris: La Vieille Taupe,
• Réponse à Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Paris: La Vieille Taupe,
• "Chronique sèche de l'Épuration – Exécutions sommaires dans quelques communes de Charente limousine", Revue d'Histoire révisionniste, no.

  4, February–April

• Réponse à Jean-Claude Pressac, publicised by AAARGH,
• Écrits révisionnistes (–), 4 volumes, privately printed,
• (With Siegfried Verbeke) Het «Dagboek» camper Anne Frank&#;: een kritische benadering

Bibliography

• Lipstadt, Deborah E. (). Denying rendering Holocaust: The Growing Assault deface Truth and Memory.

  New York: Plume. ISBN

• Fresco, Nadine (Fall ) [June , Les Temps Modernes (in French)]. "The Contravention of the Dead". Dissent.
• Igounet, Valérie (). Robert Faurisson&#;: portrait d'un négationniste (in French). Paris: Denoël. ISBN

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