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Faurisson, like most Frenchmen of that era, has said that he had anti-German sentiments during and immediately following World War II, but after reading the works of fellow Frenchman Paul Rassinier & Maurice Bardèche , he began to question the Holocaust. Over the years Faurisson claims to have studied the Holocaust extensively, and in the late 1970s he says that he came to the conclusion that it was a hoax. Since then he has written numerous letters to newspapers, published many books, and written many articles for revisionist journals questioning the occurrence of the Holocaust.

Faurisson counts among his acquaintances and friends the US revisionist Ernst Zündel, Swedish revisionist Ditlieb Felderer and Moroccan expatriate revisionist Ahmed Rami [1]. Many have called Faurisson (and his aforementioned acquantances) anti-Semites, but Faurisson denies that he is anti-Semitic.

Christopher Hitchens has described Faurisson's goal as "the rehabilitation, in pseudoscholarly form, of the Third Reich" [2]. But Faurisson claims that he is only in pursuit of the truth, and he claims he has no political goals of any kind. He is a self-declared atheist and is apolitical.

In the early to mid 1990s, left-wing American intellectual Noam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His works in generative linguistics contributed si drew a lot of criticism for defending Faurisson's right to publish his findings. See Faurisson AffairThe Faurisson Affair is a name given to events which involved Robert Faurisson, a French Holocaust denier, beginning in 1979. In 1979, Robert Faurisson, a French professor, wrote a book claiming that the Nazis did not have gas chambers, did not attempt a.