Paul Rassinier

Paul Rassinier (1906 - 1967) is militant a Communiste then Socialiste, Résistant and negationnist French.

Biography

Rassinier is initially communist until his exclusion in 1932, then it adheres to SFIO in 1934. Very committed in policy with Belfort where it resides, it is an adversary of the local deputy Pierre Dreyfus-Schmidt.

Pacifist and integral “inhabitant of Munich”, he is also anti-semite. At the time of the Second world war, it takes part in the resistance at the end of 1942. Decree, tortured, it is off-set in 1943 towards the Concentration camps of Buchenwald and of Dora. He is briefly appointed of Belfort in 1946, following the resignation of the elected official for which he was the substitute, but loses his mandate at the end of a few months vis-a-vis Pierre Dreyfus-Schmidt, who reconquers his seat of deputy. Seriously decreased by the maltreatment undergone in deportation, it leaves Belfort shortly after and settles with Asnières-sur-Seine. Its health condition will not allow him any more to take again its trade of teacher.

In 1948, it publishes its first book Passage of the line in which it challenges the resistance of the Communists in the camps, and holds them more responsible for violences and the assassinations that the S. Its second work the lie of Ulysses appears in 1950. It is prefaced by Albert Paraz, collaborator of the weekly magazine of Extrême right-hand side Rivarol . That is worth to him to be excluded from SFIO. Little by little the Juifs become its privileged target; although he was already anti-semite before the war. Of 1947 to its death, it becomes like writes it Nadine Fresco which devoted a biography to him, “a minute-book of the denunciation. Denunciation of the behavior of the communist prisoners in the German camps followed soon by that of the international Jewish plot, person in charge of the release of the Second world war and craftsman of the swindle of the alleged genocide”.

In 1950, it adheres to the anarchistic Fédération. It publishes in March 1964 an article with Rivarol, under the pseudonym of Jean-Pierre Bermont, for whom it was condemned for slandering in October 1965. It is published in Germany by the old S and militant néo-Nazi Karl-Heinz Priester. Rassinier was member of the Association of the friends of Robert Brasillach.

According to the formula of the historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet, the “bridge between the Extreme right-hand side and the far left” is devoted since the beginning of the Sixties when Maurice Bardèche became the editor of Paul Rassinier. He is the second character to have structured the speech negationnist in France after Maurice Bardèche.

Although declared atheist, it regarded as unfounded the charge carried by Rolf Hochhuth against Pie XII not to have done anything to help the Jews of Europe at the time of the deportations, and saw a political operation intended there to destabilize Western Europe. In its book the operation Vicaire , it supported that in Germany, the opposition to Hitler had been more important among catholics than among Protestants, recalled the judgments carried by papacy against the Nazism before the war and the assistance that the Church, including the Holy See, brought more once to Jews during the war.

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