"I am not saying that gas chambers did not exist. I did not see them myself. I haven't studied the questions specially. But I believe it is a minor point in the history of the Second World War."
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Controversial statement on the Holocaust (13 September 1987), in which he referred to the Nazi gas chambers as a "minor point" [point de detail] in the history of the Second World War, as quoted in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1993)
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025) was a French politician who was the founder of the Front National (now National Rally) political party serving as president from 1972 to 2011.
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