Holocaust denier and former professor Faurisson died

The French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson died in Vichy at the age of 89.

Faurisson concluded in the late 1970s that gas chambers and Nazi concentration camps were fabrications. Among other things, he published a book in collaboration with the Belgian Siegfried Verbeke, in which he questioned the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary.

He claimed that her father Otto had written it after the war. Distribution of that work by Faurisson and Verbeke was banned in the Netherlands.

Faurisson was friends with many like-minded, including the infamous anti-Semite Ernst Zündel, who died last year, and the widow of NSB leader Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, Florrie.