Alain Guionnet (born 22 April 1954) is a French Holocaust denier.
Education Born on 22 April 1954 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, Alain Guionnet received a bachelor's degree in economical and social administrationRatier, Emmanuel: Encyclopédie politique française, 1992 (see « REVISION ») and master's degrees in history and Hungarian.
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.Bourseiller, Christophe: Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche, Denoël, 2003, p. 434 Together with Pierre Guillaume, he also founded and contributed to the leftist newspaper La Guerre sociale. He wrote a "Letter to Guy Debord" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).
In 1988, he published Josef Kramer vs. Josef Kramer, a pastiche of the movie Kramer vs Kramer, on former commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp Josef Kramer's trial through a book.
After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine,Shapiro, Shelly: 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. 35Vidal-Naquet, Pierre: Holocaust denial in France: analysis of a unique phenomenon, Tel Aviv Univ., 1995, p. 55, 69, 70Igounet, Valérie, Histoire du négationnisme en France, Paris, 2000, p. 401, 548-560 in 1989 he founded his own, titled Revision, which publishes anti-Masonic and antisemitic articles and texts 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 (A.M.E.), together with Xavier Valla. Michel Erlich, a psychiatrist, categorized Revision as "[a vehicle of] delirious antiSemitism"; Guionnet hawked his magazine at Front National conventions. He published Revision until 2009.
Guionnet was sentenced to jail several times (in 1991, 1993 and 1994) for violations of the Gayssot Act, i.e., denying the Holocaust. He was also sentenced for defamation toward Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
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. () "L'Aigle noir", Josef Kramer contre Josef Kramer : mémoire en défense (Joseph Kramer Against Josef Kramer: Defence), Paris, Polémiques, 1988, 151 p. () "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. ().
He also prefaced two: Friedrich Engels (preface and translation as "Jacques Moulin"), La Campagne pour la constitution du Reich allemand : 1850 (The Campaign for the Constitution of German Reich: 1850), Paris, J. Moulin, 1981, 147 p. () Maurice Joly (preface as "Jacques Moulin"), Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu : 1864 (The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: 1864), Issy-les-Moulineaux, Libre parole, 1991, 180 p. ().
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