Vincent Reynouard

He is one of France’s most infamous Holocaust deniers, and in January 2025 he stood trial for negationism at the Paris city court. For years, proudly neo-Nazi Vincent Reynouard has sought to rewrite the history of World War II and rehabilitate the Third Reich. According to him, the genocide of the Jews never happened, and the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane is a fabrication. In 1944, the French village was left in ruins after German Waffen-SS troops slaughtered 642 men, women, and children before burning the township to the ground.

Reynouard, who has spent years trying to evade French justice in countries including Belgium and Scotland, was extradited from his hiding place in a Scottish fishing village in 2022 and is facing yet another trial for "denial of crimes against humanity," "denial of war crimes," and "incitement to racial hatred." Many of the 55-year-old’s supporters showed up in court to support the recidivist and proudly unrepentant antisemite, who told the judge: “Condemn me, I won’t keep quiet!” (Source: Conspiracy Watch, January 24, 2025).

Formerly a member of the French Nationalist and European Party (PNFE), a neo-Nazi movement, Reynouard (b. 1969) openly identifies with National Socialism, which he lauds as "an immense intellectual complex where economics, arts, sciences (both exoteric and esoteric), social structures, and lifestyle hygiene all had their place."

Trained as an engineer, Reynouard later became a mathematics teacher. He was the first teacher dismissed from the French National Education system due to Holocaust denial.

He views "race," which he calls an "obstruction to peaceful cosmopolitanism," as "the taboo of modern times" and defines what he terms "historical revisionism" as "a tool for restoring peace and tolerance."

Reynouard's political and religious convictions—he was associated with a breakaway sect of anti-Vatican ultra-traditionalist Catholics—are inseparable from his Holocaust denial activism. He has been identified as the leader of the Saint-Michel Combat Movement, a self-described "Catholic National Socialist and revisionist" group, and heads the French section of the Belgian Holocaust denial publishing house VHO (Vrij Historisch Onderzoek, or "Objective Historical Vision"), founded in 1985 by neo-Nazi Siegfried Verbeke.

Since November 2011, he has run the website PHDNM ("For a History Free of Many Lies"), a direct challenge to the anti-Holocaust denial site PHDN ("Practice of History and Holocaust Denial Distortions").

Legal Troubles and Activism

Author of numerous Holocaust denial writings and videos, Reynouard has been convicted and imprisoned multiple times in France and Belgium—where he took refuge in 1999—for war crimes glorification and Holocaust denial.

In 2022 Reynouard was caught living under a false identity in Fife, Scotland, following a two-year search led by France’s Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes. The investigation was launched after the Oradour-sur-Glane memorial was defaced with graffiti reading, “Reynouard is right.”

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His arrest and extradition in November 2022 followed a domestic warrant issued by a French court concerning seven videos made between September 2019 and April 2020, in which he allegedly denied the existence of gas chambers, described Nazi atrocities as "crude slanders," and spoke of "the Jewish problem." The charges include "public trivialization of a war crime" and "public challenge to the existence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War."

It was the culmination of more than a decade of flagrant attempts to popularize lies about the Shoah never having happened:

In August 2010, a petition initiated by Paul-Eric Blanrue and Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont called for Reynouard's release after he was extradited from Belgium to France and incarcerated. He was freed in April 2011.

On May 21, 2011, he was the guest of honor at the 60th-anniversary banquet of the far-right newspaper Rivarol, where he declared: "You call me a neo-Nazi. And I say to you: 'Why neo?' End of discussion. That’s all. There is nothing more to say."

On February 2, 2012, in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad awarded him a prize, with Marie Brunet representing him at the ceremony.

In 2015, Reynouard relocated to England. He was sentenced again in 2016 to five months in prison.

In 2018, following the death of Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, Reynouard posted a short video on his website, stating: "Your work will outlive you. Together, we will perpetuate it. [...] One day, the truth will prevail."

On February 19, 2019, to mark his birthday, he posted two photographs on Twitter—one showing him smiling while holding a bust of Adolf Hitler, and another in front of a cake with candles arranged in the shape of a swastika.

In his own words:

"The more blows we take, the more it means we are on the right path. [...] We must rise and take the stance of the accuser. [...] Since this war is an intellectual war, we must rise and say: 'We are waging the intellectual war.' Yes, and we must say: 'I fight on the side of the vanquished of 1945.' You call me a neo-Nazi. And I say to you: 'Why neo?' End of discussion. That’s all. There is nothing more to say. [...] Victory is like childbirth—it hurts. We can never give birth to a new society without suffering [...]. We cannot avoid the revisionist struggle [...]. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day a law is passed allowing us to be extradited to Israel where we would be hanged slowly. That is very possible, you know. [...] The law is ready in Israel."

– Source: "Vincent REYNOUARD invited by RIVAROL," YouTube, June 3, 2011.

(Last updated on 02/10/2025)