Jürgen Graf

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Jürgen Graf
Born Jürgen Graf
(1951-08-15) 15 August 1951 (age 73)
Basel, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Occupation teacher, author, translator, Holocaust denier

Jürgen Graf (born August 15, 1951 in Basel) 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 with his wife where he also works as a translator.[1]

Background

Graf studied philology at the University of Basel; English, Romance and Scandinavian studies, and in 1979 completed his licentiate.[1][7][8] Graf first spent several years working as a school teacher teaching languages and later taught German at a Taipei school in Taiwan.[1] On his return to Basel, he worked as interrogator of asylum seekers for the delegates for refugees at the receiving agency on the repurposed Rhine cruise ship Basilea. His experiences he described in his 1990 book "The Ship of Fools" (Das Narrenschiff), which became a "sweeping blow against abuse of asylum laws" and earned him the accusation of xenophobia. Economically, the book was a success.

In the early 1990s Graf was already a convert to Holocaust negationism, and was introduced to historical revisionism by his friend and retired school teacher Arthur Vogt to read the works of Serge Thion, Arthur Butz and Wilhelm Stäglich.[1] During the 1990s Graf published several controversial writings on the subject of the Holocaust, 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 sent his book to many journalists and parliamentarians and was thus known as a vowed negationist. Consequently, he was summarily dismissed from the teaching profession. Graf was later employed in a non-governmental school in Basel, where he taught German language 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, the now deceased Gerhard Förster, were prosecuted by a Swiss court in July 1998 and 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]

Writings

  • The Giant With Feet of Clay: Raul Hilberg and his Standard Work on the "Holocaust". 2nd edition, 146 pp. pb, 6"×9", 5 illustrations, bibliography, index. Published by Castle Hill Publishers (Uckfield, UK) in Jan. 2015; ISBN 9781591480785[10]
  • Treblinka: Extermination Camp or Transit Camp? 2nd, revised edition, 370 pp. pb, 6"×9", 35 illustrations, bibliography, index. Published by The Barnes Review (Washington, D.C.) in Dec. 2010; ISBN 9780984631216[11]
  • Concentration Camp Majdanek: A Historical and Technical Study. 3rd, corrected and expanded edition, 349 pp. pb, 6"×9", 66 illustrations, bibliography, index. Published by The Barnes Review (Washington, D.C.) in Jan. 2012; ISBN 9781591481034[12]
  • Holocaust Revisionism-The Arguments. Historical Review Press 240p ISBN 0-906879-47-7 ISBN 978-0906879474
  • Sobibór: Holocaust Propaganda and Reality. 434 pp. pb, 6"×9", 22 illustrations, bibliography, index. Published by The Barnes Review (Washington, D.C.) in May 2010; ISBN 9780981808543[13]
  • The "Extermination Camps" of "Aktion Reinhardt": An Analysis and Refutation of Factitious "Evidence," Deceptions and Flawed Argumentation of the "Holocaust Controversies" Bloggers, 2nd, slightly corrected edition, Set of 2 tomes with a total of 1396 pages. (sold as a set only; Tome 1: 712 pp. ISBN 9781591480877; Tome 2: 684 pp. ISBN 9781591480884), pb, 6"×9", bibliography, Published by Castle Hill Publishers (Uckfield, UK) in Apr. 2015; ISBN 9781591480358[14]
  • Concentration Camp Stutthof—and its Function in National Socialist Jewish Policy. 3rd, revised and expanded edition, 178 pp. pb, 6"×9", bibliography, index. Published by Castle Hill Publishers (Uckfield, UK) in Jan. 2015; ISBN 9781591480808[15]
  • Auschwitz Confessions and Testimonies: A Critical Analysis. 2016

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