Alain Guionnet
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Alain Guionnet (April 22, 1954) is a French Holocaust denier.
He publishes Revision since 1989.
Biography
Studies
He received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administration[1] and master's degrees in history and hungarese.
Activism
According to Christophe Bourseiller, he would have led, during his youth, a far-left group called Oser lutter, oser vaincre ("Dare to struggle, dare to beat"), based in Issy-les-Moulineaux.[2] Together with Pierre Guillaume, he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper La Guerre sociale.[1] He wrote a "Letter to Guy Debord" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).[3]
In 1988, he took an interest in former commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Josef Kramer's trial through a book.[4] After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine,[5] in 1989 he founded his own, titled Revision,[6] which publishes anti-Masonic[7] and antisemitic articles and texts[8] including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and some articles by Robert Faurisson. The ninth volume reprinted Élie Reclus's article against circumcision. In the same time, he founded the Association contre la mutilation des enfants, together with Xavier Valla. Michel Erlich, a psychiatrist, categorized Revision as "[a vehicle of] delirious antiSemitism";[9] Guionnet has hawked his magazine at Front National conventions.[10]
Alain Guionnet has been sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) by way of the Gayssot Act, for denying the Holocaust.[11] He was also sentenced for defamation toward Pierre Vidal-Naquet.[12]
Works
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. (BNF 366012528)
- "L'Aigle noir", Josef Kramer contre Josef Kramer : mémoire en défense (Joseph Kramer Against Josef Kramer: Defence), Paris, Polémiques, 1988, 151 p. (BNF 36626799x)
- "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. (BNF 35476667k).
He also prefaced two other ones:
- Friedrich Engels (preface and translation as "Jacques Moulin"), La Campagne pour la constitution du Reich allemand : 1850 (The Campaign for the Constitution of German Reich: 1850), Paris, J. Moulin, 1981, 147 p. (BNF 346906265)
- Maurice Joly (preface as "Jacques Moulin"), Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu : 1864 (The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: 1864), Issy-les-Moulineaux, Libre parole, 1991, 180 p. (BNF 35485556m).
References
- 1 2 Ratier, Emmanuel: Encyclopédie politique française, 1992 (see « REVISION »)
- ↑ Bourseiller, Christophe: Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche, Denoël, 2003, p.434
- ↑ http://data.bnf.fr/documents-by-rdt/12091230/110/page1
- ↑ Akribeia: histoire, rumeurs, légendes. Akribeia. 1999. pp. 22 n.4.
- ↑ Shelly Shapiro, Truth prevails: demolishing holocaust denial: The end of "The Leuchter Report", The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Holocaust Survivors & Friends in Pursuit of Justice, 1990, p. 35 ; Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Holocaust denial in France: analysis of a unique phenomenon, Tel Aviv Univ., 1995, p. 55, 69, 70 ; Valérie Igounet, Histoire du négationnisme en France, Paris, 2000, p. 401, 548-560.
- ↑ Igounet, Valérie (2000). Histoire du négationnisme en France. Editions du Seuil. pp. 554–56. ISBN 9782020354929.
- ↑ Laqueur, Walter; Baumel, Judith Tydor (2001). "Holocaust Denial". The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Yale University Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780300138115.
- ↑ https://www.academia.edu/8559740/Catalogue_de_Revision
- ↑ Erlich, Michel (1991). "Circoncision, excision et racisme". Nouvelle revue d'ethnopsychiatrie (in French). 18: 125–40.
- ↑ d'Appollonia, Ariane Chebel (1998). L' Extreme Droite en France. Editions Complexe. p. 377. ISBN 9782870277645.
- ↑ Hennebel, Ludovic; Hochmann, Thomas (2011). Genocide Denials and the Law. Oxford University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780199876396.
- ↑ "Diffamation envers la mémoire des morts". Légipresse (in French) (142). 1997.