Autopsie d'un mensonge, le négationnisme

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At the end of the 1970s, intellectuals such as Robert Faurisson, Darquier de Pellepoix and Roger Garaudy caused a scandal by denying the existence of the gas chambers and the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. The film deciphers how these theses, with their false scientific allure, could have generated a formidable current of thought. Former deportees, historians (from Annette Wieviorka to Pierre André Taguieff or Elias Sanbar), philosophers (Alain Finkielkraut), political scientists and jurists, analyze the context and the reasons for the breakthrough of Holocaust denial among certain fringes of the ultra-left and the extreme right: anti-Zionist amalgams for some, a revival of anti-Semitic discourse for others. The question of testimonies on the Shoah or the question of the Church's position on the Holocaust still nourish reflection on this phenomenon, which, in the age of the Internet, is far from drying up.

• Modern history, Second World War