What is Robert Faurisson?
{{Infobox person |name = Robert Faurisson |image = Robert Faurisson en 2014.png |image_size = |caption = in 2014 at the time of his trial against the newspaper ''Le Monde'' |birth_name = Robert Faurisson Aitken |birth_date = {{birth date|1929|1|25|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Shepperton]], [[Middlesex]], [[England]], UK |death_date = {{death date and age|2018|10|21|1929|1|25|df=y}} |death_place = [[Vichy]], [[Allier]], France |residence = |nationality = French |occupation = Professor of literature and revisionist historian, known for Holocaust-denial}} '''Robert Faurisson''' (born '''Robert Faurisson Aitken'''; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018)<ref>[http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2018/10/22/97001-20181022FILWWW00079-le-negationniste-robert-faurisson-est-mort.php Le négationniste Robert Faurisson est mort] {{in lang|fr}}</ref> was a British-born French academic at the [[University of Lyon]] and a [[Holocaust denier]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2018/10/23/avec-robert-faurisson-la-mort-d-un-faussaire-de-l-histoire-ideologue-du-negationnisme_5373118_3382.html|title=Avec Robert Faurisson, la mort d’un « faussaire de l’histoire », idéologue du négationnisme|date=2018-10-23|work=Le Monde.fr|access-date=2020-07-16|language=fr}}</ref> He published many controversial articles in the ''[[Journal of Historical Review]]'' and ''[[Le Monde]]''. In his articles, he does not believe that [[gas chambers]] in [[Nazi death camps]] and the authenticity of ''[[The Diary of a Young Girl|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' were real.<ref name=charny>{{cite book|last=Charny|first=Israel W.|title=Encyclopedia of Genocide|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California|year=1999|isbn=9780874369281|page=182}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Faurisson, Robert}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:French academics]] [[Category:French journalists]] [[Category:People from Surrey]]