Vincent Reynouard is a chemical engineer, a math professor, an independent historian and a Holocaust denier who has been jailed in France for his writings about the Second World War.
Career
The law in France is called the Gayssot Acting. His revisionist work gained notoriety in connection with the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre. His work, alone and with others, is sometimes labeled by courts as "contesting crimes against humanity", and sometimes as "disputing crimes against humanity".
There is an important distinction in French law which impinges upon Reynouard"s case.
He was released from French prison on April 5, 2011.
Politics
Mr. Reynouard believes that "we must take up the best of what National Socialism comprised in order finally to surpass it and forge a doctrine that will be able to save our Old Continent.".
Views
lieutenant is that one may contest the existence of a war crime, but not defend a war crime.