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Roger Garaudy
French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier (1913-2012) · France · Academics · Died at 98
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Something wrong?A French philosopher who moved from communism to Islam, then into infamy: in 1998 he was convicted and fined under French law for calling the murder of six million Jews a "myth".
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Roger Garaudy was born in 1913 and built early credibility as a French resistance fighter and communist author. He spent decades as a philosopher in that tradition before converting to Islam in 1982, a shift that marked a second intellectual life. But his later years collapsed into Holocaust denial. In 1998, French courts convicted him for claiming the mass murder of six million Jews was a "myth" - a crime under French law. He was fined and sentenced. He died in 2012.
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