Erik Haaest (14 March 1935 – 23 January 2012) was a controversial Danish

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and author. On 18 July 2007 the newspaper ''

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'' wrote that Haaest in September 1977 had published a pamphlet asserting that the

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never existed and that the

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was a forgery. This caused the Danish Arts Council to be condemned since it had funded Haaest's research into Danes who had served in the SS. Information subsequently brought a retort from Haaest where he claimed to have been deliberately misquoted and referred to the allegations as an outrageous lie made to discredit and sabotage his authorship regarding Danish pro-Nazi collaborators.

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External links

Haaest's homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Haaest, Erik 1935 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Danish journalists 20th-century Danish writers 20th-century Danish male writers Danish Holocaust deniers