As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.
As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.
Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.