Holocaust denier
Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims:
*Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...
.
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"; named after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of Paris, ...
Christophe Bourseiller
Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller (), is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film '' War of ...
, 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 in French. It is one of Paris's entrances and is located from Notre Dame Cathedral, whic ...
. 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 Situat ...
" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).
In 1988, he published ''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, northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen, Lower Saxony, Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, ...
and
Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzwiller, Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Nazi Germany, Germany, on territory Annexation, annexed from France on a b ...
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and Bergen Belsen (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945) concentration camps. ...
'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'' is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multip ...
'' 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 several articles published in the '' ...
. The ninth volume reprinted
Élie Reclus
Élie Reclus (; July 16, 1827 – February 11, 1904) was a French ethnographer and anarchist.
Biography
Élie Reclus was the oldest of five brothers, born to a Protestant minister and his wife. His middle three brothers, including the well know ...
'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 (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right politics, far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and French nationalism, nationalist. It is the single largest Nat ...
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 (), 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 which Nazi leaders w ...
, i.e., denying the Holocaust. He was also sentenced for defamation toward
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels" ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.La Campagne pour la constitution du Reich allemand : 1850'' (The Campaign for the Constitution of German Reich: 1850), Paris, J. Moulin, 1981, 147 p. ()
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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 informat ...