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Jürgen Graf

 
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Jürgen Graf (born August 15, 1951, Basel) is a Swiss Holocaust denier and researcher. He studied philology at the University of Basel studying French, English, and Scandinavian languages and spent several years working as a school teacher at a prestigious private school. He is fluent in 15 languages. He became acquainted with the Holocaust debate in 1991 and published several books on the subject in the 1990s, three co-authored with his colleague Carlo Mattogno.

Graf and his publisher, Gerhard Förster, were prosecuted by a Swiss court for 'Holocaust denial' in July 1998 [1] [2] [3] and was sentenced to a fine and 15 months imprisonment. He fled the country, initially seeking political asylum in Iran, but subsequently settling in Belarus for some time, afterwards moving to Russia. He married a Belarusian Historian in 2001. Currently he lives in Moscow, working as a translator.

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