Robert Faurisson
| Robert Faurisson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 January 1929 Shepperton, Middlesex, England, UK |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Professor of literature and revisionist historian, known for Holocaust-denial |
Robert Faurisson (born Robert Faurisson Aitken, 25 January 1929) is a Franco-British Holocaust denier and former academic. Faurisson has 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 contradict the accepted history of the Holocaust, including the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank, and the veracity of Elie Wiesel's accounts of his wartime sufferings. 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.
Faurisson is believed to be one of seven children born in Shepperton, Middlesex, England to a French father and a Scottish mother.
He was a student of French, Latin and Greek (Lettres classiques), succeeded in getting the agrégation (the highest competitive examination for secondary teachers) in 1956. He became teacher in a lycée at Vichy, while working on a thesis about Lautréamont and he got his doctorate in 1972. He was lecturer, then he was named professor of French literature at the University of Lyon between 1973 and 1990. In Vichy, as a young teacher, he gained attention when he published an interpretation of Rimbaud's Sonnet des voyelles as an erotic text, adding that he had found the only possible truth about this poem. Around 1960, he developed political sympathies for the activists of the Algérie française movement and was arrested in the belief he was a member of the "OAS" (a terrorist organisation trying to kill, among others, de Gaulle).
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