Henry Coston
Henry Coston | |
|---|---|
 Coston in 1934 | |
| Born | 20 December 1910 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 July 2001 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Henry Coston (20 December 1910 – 26 July 2001) was a French
conspiracy theorist
.
Biography
After joining the
anti-Jewish propaganda newsletter, the Welt-Dienst / World-Service / Service Mondial
.
During World War II, Coston belonged to
PPF. He also was vice-president of the "Association of anti-Jewish Journalists" and he organised the publication of one of the most anti-Semitic document of the Vichy regime, a tract entitled "I hate you" (Je vous hais).[2] At the same period, he also wrote anti-Masonic pamphlets with his colleague Jacques Ploncard d'Assac
.
In 1944, he tried to escape in
free-masonry
while he kept on denouncing the influence of Jews in French life.
Until the 1990s he was contributing to different far-right newspapers. He was a supporter of the
Front National and occasionally wrote in its paper National-Hebdo. From 1967 to 2000, Coston wrote a five-volume Dictionary of French politics (Dictionnaire de la politique française), which is considered as "exactly referenced" and "a non-negligible source of information" by the Jewish historian Simon Epstein.[3]
Notes
- ^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 58
- ^ a b c "Notorious French collaborator, Henri Coston, dies at 91", by Agence France-Presse, August 1, 2001.
- ^ Les Dreyfusards sous l'Occupation, Albin Michel, 2001, p.346
References
- Adrian Dannatt, "Obituary: Henry Coston", in The Independent (London), August 27, 2001 [1].
- "Notorious French collaborator, Henri Coston, dies at 91", by Agence France-Presse, August 1, 2001.
