Vincent Reynouard, born in 1969, is a French historian specializing in the Second World War who has been punished for violating France’s controversial “Gayssot” law by expressing dissident views about twentieth century history.
Reynouard studied in Caen, Normandy, and graduated as a chemical engineer. He then taught mathematics at professional secondary schools. However, in 1997 he was fired for political reasons by the French Education Minister, after the discovery of revisionist texts on the hard disk of the computer which he used at school. Since then Reynouard has survived on his writings as a historian.
Married in 1991, he and his wife are the parents of eight children.
Reynouard is the author of several dozen essays or brochures on diverse subjects, mostly dealing with World War II. He is the author of a book about the Oradour-sur-Glane “massacre,” a clash in a French village in June 1944 between German SS troops and French Resistance fighters in which 640 civilians died.
He has become known for the revisionist history periodicalSans Concession. He has been responsible for the French-language operations of VHO, an independent revisionist history center that publishes in Dutch, German, French and other languages.
Reynouard is a traditionalist Catholic who is sympathetic to the legacy of Third Reich Germany and National Socialism.
Reynouard has repeatedly been a victim of legal persecution for his writings. On several occasions he has been prosecuted and convicted for “thought crimes.”
On October 8, 1992, a court in Caen, France, sentenced him to one month in prison (suspended), and fined him 5,000 francs (about $850) for violating the French “Gayssot” law that makes it a crime to “contest” or dispute certain “crimes against humanity,” as defined by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal (IMT) of 1945-46. Specifically, he was punished for having sent to 24 secondary school pupils anonymous letters along with copies of writings that dispute claims of gas chamber killings during World War II.
In June 2004 Reynouard was sentenced to two years in prison for having produced and distributed a videocassette on the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane that allegedly approved war crimes. However that ruling was later overturned by another court. An earlier confiscation of his research papers was validated.
On November 8, 2007, a court in Saverne (Lower Rhine), France, sentenced Reynouard to one year in prison and to pay a fine of 10,000 euros (about $13,000) for “contesting crimes against humanity” by writing and distributing a 16-page brochure entitled “The Holocaust: What They Hide from You.” He was also ordered to pay 3,000 euros to the anti-racist association LICRA. He appealed the sentence.
On June 25, 2008, the Court of Appeals in Colmar (Alsace) upheld the one-year prison sentence and ordered Reynouard to pay a total of 60,000 euros, which included a fine of 20,000 euros, damages, and the cost of publishing a notice with extracts from this judgment in the “Official Journal of the French Republic,” as well as in the prominent French daily newspaperLe Monde, and the Alsace dailyDernières Nouvelles d'Alsace.
Meanwhile, Reynouard fled with his family to neighboring Belgium.
In June 2008, a court in Brussels, Belgium, declared Reynouard and Belgium publisher Siegfried Verbeke guilty of “disputing crimes against humanity” for having written and published “Holocaust denial” literature. The two men were sentenced to one year imprisonment and to pay a fine of 25,000 euros, as well as damages and various other costs.
By Vincent Reynouard ∙ January 17, 2020
Vincent Reynouard: Confessions of a reformed denier. Vincent Reynouard admits that he has reformed himself. He incredibly "denied" the existance of the "gas chambers" in his native France. Several fines and court appearences followed as the "French" government has outlawed the nothing but the "official" story. Vincent says that he is sorry using statistics and…
By Vincent Reynouard ∙ October 26, 2018
French Revisionist Vincent Reynouard pays tribute to Professor Robert Faurisson on this 12 min video. He tells his testimony about how he became a revisionist himself due to the influence of Prof. Faurisson’s observations and critique about Holocaust story. Watch this tribute, originally in French with subtitles in English.
By Robert Faurisson ∙ May 26, 2012
I sincerely hope that the recent appeal by Vincent Reynouard with, at his side, Marie Bruchet, will be heard by all our friends. At the strictly scientific and historical level revisionism has won the match but, on the other hand, at the educational, propaganda and media level we are more and more besieged. To the…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ November 3, 2015
“The fight for freedom of speech cannot be fought within the confines of the dictatorship of today’s Germany; it has to be fought from abroad.”—Gerhard Ittner The way the courts in Germany behave with those who dare to express doubts and disagreement with the orthodox historical narrative of the Holocaust, including revisionists who do serious…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ September 8, 2015
The chemical engineer and former math teacher Vincent Reynouard is a well-known French figure in the revisionist world. A very close friend and colleague of Professor Robert Faurisson, he calls the current “post-revisionists” Faurisson’s heirs. Born on February 18, 1969, in Boulogne-Billancour to wealthy parents (both his parents were physicians, and his father a mayor…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 28, 2013
*** A German court in the Bavarian city of Regensburg has thrown out the latest appeal by British Bishop Richard Williamson. The appeal marked the fifth round of court proceedings in this case. The 73-year-old bishop was originally convicted of incitement to hatred after telling Swedish television in a 2009 broadcast that “200,000 to 300,000…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ March 1, 2002
[Dr. Faurisson wrote this article some eight months ago. While some of the legal circumstances have changed (as the preceding article makes clear), his description of the continuing persecution of revisionists in France, Switzerland, and elsewhere in Europe has lost none of its freshness, acuity, or defiance. – Editor] Robert Faurisson is Europe’s foremost Holocaust…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ January 15, 2001
On November 1, 2000, French historian and sociologist Serge Thion, 58 and a father of three, was dismissed from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), without salary or severance pay. [Thion is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including Vérité historique ou vérité politique?, a collection of revisionist essays published…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1998
In 1789 the French National Assembly enacted the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,” a guiding document of the French Revolution that solemnly proclaims as “inalienable” the rights of free speech and of the press. Today French citizens are, by and large, able to express their views freely on nearly any topic….
By Vincent Reynouard ∙ July 9, 2008
Wednesday 9 July 2008. I don’t believe in chance. I think all of us are born with potentials that wait for the right moment to reveal themselves (at least if we’re willing to let them). I’m often asked how the boy I was, born in a very good family (my father, a doctor, was also…
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