Holocaust denier
Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements:
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Education
Born on 22 April 1954 in the
14th arrondissement of Paris
The 14th arrondissement of Paris ( ), officially named ''arrondissement de l'Observatoire'' (; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It is situa ...
, Alain Guionnet received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administrationRatier, Emmanuel: ''Encyclopédie politique française'', 1992 (see « REVISION ») and master's degrees in history and Hungarian.
Activism
According to
Christophe Bourseiller
Christophe Bourseiller (; born Christophe Gintzburger; born 27 September 1957 in Paris) is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began as a child actor and starred in Yves Robert's '' War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') ...
, during Guionnet's youth, he led a far-left group called ''Oser lutter, oser vaincre'' ("Dare to struggle, dare to beat"), based in
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux () is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine. Its citizens are called ''Isséens'' in French. It is one of Paris' entrances and is located from Notre-Dame Cath ...
. Together with Pierre Guillaume, he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper ''La Guerre sociale''. He wrote a "Letter to
Guy Debord
Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationis ...
" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).
In 1988, he publishes ''Josef Kramer vs. Josef Kramer'', a pastiche of the movie '' Kramer vs Kramer'', on former commandant of
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen , or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concent ...
and
Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a basis in 1940. It operated from 21 May ...
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 Ap ...
's trial through a book.
After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine, in 1989 he founded his own, titled ''Revision'', which publishes anti-Masonic and antisemitic articles and texts including ''
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' () or ''The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion'' is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The hoax was plagiarized from several ...
'' and some articles by
Robert Faurisson
Robert Faurisson (; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018) was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with a number of articles published in th ...
. The ninth volume reprinted
Élie Reclus
Élie Reclus (; 1827–1904) was a French ethnographer and anarchist.
Élie Reclus was the oldest of five brothers, born to a Protestant minister and his wife. His middle three brothers, including the well known anarchist Élisée Reclus, all b ...
's article against circumcision. In the same time, he founded the Association contre la mutilation des enfants (A.M.E.), together with Xavier Valla. Michel Erlich, a psychiatrist, categorized ''Revision'' as " vehicle ofdelirious antiSemitism"; Guionnet hawked his magazine at
Front National
The National Rally (french: Rassemblement National, ; RN), until 2018 known as the National Front (french: link=no, Front National, ; FN), is a far-rightAbridged list of reliable sources that refer to National Rally as far-right:
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conventions. He published ''Revision'' until 2009.
Guionnet was sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) for violations of the
Gayssot Act
The Gayssot Act or Gayssot Law (french: Loi Gayssot), enacted on 13 July 1990, makes it an offence in France to question the existence or size of the category of crimes against humanity as defined in the London Charter of 1945, on the basis of wh ...
, i.e., denying the Holocaust. He was also sentenced for defamation toward
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (; 23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the ''École des hautes études en sciences sociales'' (EHESS) in 1969.
Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, but ...
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Books
Guionnet has written three books published under various pseudonyms:
* "Jacques Moulin", ''Le Mode de production des hommes-plantes'' (The Mode of Production of Plantmen), Issy-les-Moulineaux, A. Guionnet, 1980, 177 p. ()
* "L'Aigle noir", ''Josef Kramer contre Josef Kramer : mémoire en défense'' (Joseph Kramer Against Josef Kramer: Defence), Paris, Polémiques, 1988, 151 p. ()
* "Attila Lemage", ''Manifeste antijuif : du 10e siècle avant notre ère à nos jours, le combat des Titans'' (Anti-Semitic Manifesto: from the 10th century BC to nowadays, Titans' fight), Issy-les-Moulineaux and Paris, Libre parole and A. Lemage, 1991, 73 p. ().
He also prefaced two:
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Maurice Joly
Maurice Joly (22 September 1829 – 15 July 1878) was a French political writer and lawyer known for ''The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu'', a political satire of Napoleon III.
Known life
Most of the known informatio ...