"I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. … If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail."
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Statement in Munich (5 December 1997), as quoted in The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 21 (2002) by the Institute for Historical Review, p. 3
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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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