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'''Alain Guionnet''' is a French [[Holocaust denier]]. He has published ''Revision'' since 1989.
'''Alain Guionnet''' is a French [[Holocaust denier]]. He has published ''Revision'' since 1989.


==Biography==
===Education===
===Studies===
He received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administration<ref name="Ratier">Ratier, Emmanuel: ''Encyclopédie politique française'', 1992 (see « REVISION »)</ref> and master's degrees in history and hungarese.
He received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administration<ref name="Ratier">Ratier, Emmanuel: ''Encyclopédie politique française'', 1992 (see « REVISION »)</ref> and master's degrees in history and hungarese.


===Activism===
===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]].<ref>Bourseiller, Christophe: ''Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche'', Denoël, 2003, p.434</ref> Together with [[Pierre Guillaume]], he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper ''La Guerre sociale''.<ref name="Ratier" /> He wrote a "Letter to [[Guy Debord]]" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).<ref>http://data.bnf.fr/documents-by-rdt/12091230/110/page1</ref>
According to [[Christophe Bourseiller]], 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]].<ref>Bourseiller, Christophe: ''Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche'', Denoël, 2003, p.434</ref> Together with [[Pierre Guillaume]], he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper ''La Guerre sociale''.<ref name="Ratier" /> He wrote a "Letter to [[Guy Debord]]" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).<ref>http://data.bnf.fr/documents-by-rdt/12091230/110/page1</ref>


In 1988, he took an interest in former commandant of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] [[Josef Kramer]]'s trial through a book.<ref>{{cite book|title=Akribeia: histoire, rumeurs, légendes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5RtAAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Akribeia|pages=22 n.4}}</ref> After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine,<ref>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.</ref> in 1989 he founded his own, titled ''Revision'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Igounet|first=Valérie|title=Histoire du négationnisme en France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g1nAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Editions du Seuil|isbn=9782020354929|pages=554–56}}</ref> which publishes anti-Masonic<ref>{{cite book|last1=Laqueur|first1=Walter|last2=Baumel|first2=Judith Tydor|title=The Holocaust Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPbr0XzlTzcC&pg=PA298|year=2001|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300138115|page=298|chapter=Holocaust Denial}}</ref> and antisemitic articles and texts<ref>https://www.academia.edu/8559740/Catalogue_de_Revision</ref> including ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' and some articles by [[Robert Faurisson]].<!--<ref>[http://www.fndirp.asso.fr/ciblesnegationnistes2.htm ''Le Patriote Résistant''] (January 2006)</ref>--> 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";<ref>{{cite journal |first=Michel |last=Erlich |work=Nouvelle revue d'ethnopsychiatrie |title=Circoncision, excision et racisme |year=1991 |volume=18 |pages=125&ndash;40 |url=https://www.academia.edu/8739005/Michel_Erlich_Revision_and_the_AME_that_delirious_antiSemitism_in_Excision_circoncision_et_racisme_ |language=French}}</ref> Guionnet has hawked his magazine at [[National Front (France)|Front National]] conventions.<ref>{{cite book|last=d'Appollonia|first=Ariane Chebel|title=L' Extreme Droite en France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoE383twEQsC&pg=PA377|year=1998|publisher=Editions Complexe|isbn=9782870277645|page=377}}</ref>
In 1988, he took an interest in former commandant of [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] [[Josef Kramer]]'s trial through a book.<ref>{{cite book|title=Akribeia: histoire, rumeurs, légendes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5RtAAAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Akribeia|pages=22 n.4}}</ref> After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine,<ref>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.</ref> in 1989 he founded his own, titled ''Revision'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Igounet|first=Valérie|title=Histoire du négationnisme en France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g1nAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Editions du Seuil|isbn=9782020354929|pages=554–56}}</ref> which publishes anti-Masonic<ref>{{cite book|last1=Laqueur|first1=Walter|last2=Baumel|first2=Judith Tydor|title=The Holocaust Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPbr0XzlTzcC&pg=PA298|year=2001|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300138115|page=298|chapter=Holocaust Denial}}</ref> and antisemitic articles and texts<ref>https://www.academia.edu/8559740/Catalogue_de_Revision</ref> including ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' and some articles by [[Robert Faurisson]].<!--<ref>[http://www.fndirp.asso.fr/ciblesnegationnistes2.htm ''Le Patriote Résistant''] (January 2006)</ref>--> 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";<ref>{{cite journal |first=Michel |last=Erlich |work=Nouvelle revue d'ethnopsychiatrie |title=Circoncision, excision et racisme |year=1991 |volume=18 |pages=125&ndash;40 |url=https://www.academia.edu/8739005/Michel_Erlich_Revision_and_the_AME_that_delirious_antiSemitism_in_Excision_circoncision_et_racisme_ |language=French}}</ref> Guionnet has hawked his magazine at [[National Front (France)|Front National]] conventions.<ref>{{cite book|last=d'Appollonia|first=Ariane Chebel|title=L' Extreme Droite en France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoE383twEQsC&pg=PA377|year=1998|publisher=Editions Complexe|isbn=9782870277645|page=377}}</ref>


Alain Guionnet has been sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) by way of the [[Loi Gayssot|Gayssot Act]], for denying the Holocaust.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hennebel|first1=Ludovic|last2=Hochmann|first2=Thomas|title=Genocide Denials and the Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWJpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA254|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199876396|page=254}}</ref> He was also sentenced for defamation toward [[Pierre Vidal-Naquet]].<ref>{{cite journal |first= |last= |work=Légipresse |title=Diffamation envers la mémoire des morts |year=1997 |number= 142|pages= |url=http://www.legipresse.com/011-38491-Diffamation-envers-la-memoire-des-morts.html |language=French}}</ref>
Guionnet was sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) for violations of the [[Loi Gayssot|Gayssot Act]], i.e., denying the Holocaust.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hennebel|first1=Ludovic|last2=Hochmann|first2=Thomas|title=Genocide Denials and the Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWJpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA254|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199876396|page=254}}</ref> He was also sentenced for defamation toward [[Pierre Vidal-Naquet]].<ref>{{cite journal |first= |last= |work=Légipresse |title=Diffamation envers la mémoire des morts |year=1997 |number= 142|pages= |url=http://www.legipresse.com/011-38491-Diffamation-envers-la-memoire-des-morts.html |language=French}}</ref>


==Works==
==Books==
Guionnet has written three books published under various pseudonyms:
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}})
* "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}})

Revision as of 17:53, 13 January 2017

Alain Guionnet is a French Holocaust denier. He has published Revision since 1989.

Education

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, 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.[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]

Guionnet was sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) for violations of the Gayssot Act, i.e., denying the Holocaust.[11] He was also sentenced for defamation toward Pierre Vidal-Naquet.[12]

Books

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:

References

  1. ^ a b Ratier, Emmanuel: Encyclopédie politique française, 1992 (see « REVISION »)
  2. ^ Bourseiller, Christophe: Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche, Denoël, 2003, p.434
  3. ^ http://data.bnf.fr/documents-by-rdt/12091230/110/page1
  4. ^ Akribeia: histoire, rumeurs, légendes. Akribeia. 1999. pp. 22 n.4.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Igounet, Valérie (2000). Histoire du négationnisme en France. Editions du Seuil. pp. 554–56. ISBN 9782020354929.
  7. ^ Laqueur, Walter; Baumel, Judith Tydor (2001). "Holocaust Denial". The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Yale University Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780300138115.
  8. ^ https://www.academia.edu/8559740/Catalogue_de_Revision
  9. ^ Erlich, Michel (1991). "Circoncision, excision et racisme". Nouvelle revue d'ethnopsychiatrie (in French). 18: 125–40.
  10. ^ d'Appollonia, Ariane Chebel (1998). L' Extreme Droite en France. Editions Complexe. p. 377. ISBN 9782870277645.
  11. ^ Hennebel, Ludovic; Hochmann, Thomas (2011). Genocide Denials and the Law. Oxford University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780199876396.
  12. ^ "Diffamation envers la mémoire des morts". Légipresse (in French) (142). 1997.
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