Has the New Right taken a position on the Historical Revisionism of Robert Faurisson and his disciples?
Taguieff: Although GRECE’s journals have never published work by revisionists, there appears to be an internal and continuing debate on the question of the Nazi genocide of Jews and the murderous gas chambers. In 1990 Georges Charbonneau wrote “The New Right has never been negationist and wants to be so less than ever. In the current polemic concerning the existence of the gas chambers, it should be stated clearly that GRECE will not support those who deny the heinous character of the industrialization of death for European Jews and other ethnic or political minorities during WWII.”[30] This is the quasi-public position GRECE adopted at the end of the 1980s. But this position, dictated perhaps by tactical concerns, was publicly challenged by one of GRECE’s founders, J.-C. valla (born in 1944, editor of the Lettre de Magazine Hebdo and of the revived Minute) in a letter he addressed to the negationist journal edited by Henri Roques: “I do not know if Mr. Charbonneau, who is no longer a
