Jürgen Graf
Jürgen Graf | |
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Born | Jürgen Graf 15 August 1951 Basel, Switzerland |
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation(s) | Teacher, author, translator |
Known for | Holocaust denial |
Criminal charges | Holocaust denial |
Jürgen Graf (born 15 August 1951) is a Swiss author, former teacher and Holocaust denier.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Since August 2000 he has been living in exile, and is currently living in Russia, working as a translator, with his wife.[1]
Background
Born in
By the early 1990s, Graf was a convert to Holocaust denial, and was introduced to the field by his friend and retired school teacher Arthur Vogt through the works of Serge Thion, Arthur Butz and Wilhelm Stäglich.[1] During the 1990s, Graf published several Holocaust denial works, his first titled The Holocaust on trial: Eyewitness accounts versus natural laws (Der Holocaust auf dem Prüfstand: Augenzeugenberichte versus Naturgesetze),[1][9] several of his later books co-authored with the Italian Holocaust denier Carlo Mattogno.[1] Graf distributed his book to journalists and parliamentarians, establishing a reputation as a Holocaust denier. As the result, he was dismissed from his teaching position; he was later employed in a private school in Basel, teaching German to foreign students.[1]
Graf's publications eventually led Swiss authorities to prosecute him for violating Swiss anti-racism laws.[1] Graf and his then-publisher, Gerhard Förster, were tried by a Swiss court in July 1998; Graf was sentenced to a substantial fine and 15 months imprisonment.[1] He fled the country while awaiting his appeal, travelling through Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, ending in Iran, where a group of Iranian Holocaust deniers sheltered him in Tehran.[1] Graf subsequently relocated to Moscow, Russia, where he met and married a Belarusian woman in 2001.[1] He currently lives and works in Moscow as a translator.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-34538-8.
- ^ "Learning Tools : Myth/Fact Sheets : There Are No Mass Graves At Treblinka". HDOT. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ Goldberg, Jonah (22 September 2013). "A Brief History of Iranian Holocaust Denial " Commentary Magazine". Commentarymagazine.com. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ "Western Deniers in the Middle East". Archive.adl.org. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ "Midstream Magazine". Midstreamthf.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ISBN 978-1-4128-1555-0. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ "Holocaust Handbooks: Jürgen Graf".
- ^ "Juergen Graf « Inconvenient History". Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
- ISBN 978-3-9520382-0-8.
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