Roger Garaudy
French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier (1913-2012)
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Roger Garaudy was a French philosopher and politician who became widely known for denying the Holocaust, the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II. His denial of this historical atrocity matters because it exemplifies how influential public figures can spread dangerous historical falsehoods that undermine our understanding of one of history's greatest tragedies.
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- Born
- 17 July 1913
- Died
- 13 June 2012
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- 174
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- al-Uṣūlīyāt al-muʻāṣirah
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Roger Garaudy ( French: [ʁɔʒe gaʁodi]; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted for several years and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for claiming that the mass murder of six million Jews was a "myth".
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1913 births2012 deaths20th-century French philosophers21st-century French male writers21st-century French writersAcademic staff of the University of PoitiersCommunist members of the French ResistanceConverts to Protestantism from CatholicismConverts to Sunni Islam from ProtestantismDeputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth RepublicDeputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic