Jean-Marie Le Pen is an anti-Semitic French far-right politician. As the leader of the Front National party in France, Le Pen has a long history of making anti-Semitic remarks and holocaust denial.
Le Pen first entered French politics in 1972, when he created the Front National party on a populist and xenophobic platform. Beginning in the early 1980's, the party would consistently receive around 15 percent of the national electoral vote. Le Pen stirred much controversy in France, by stating that "the races are not equal" and proclaiming that the Nazi occupation of France was "not especially inhumane".
In the past, Le Pen has accused ex-President Jacques Chirac of being "in the pay of Jewish organizations, and particularly of the notorious B'nai B'rith" – the Jewish community service and welfare organization.
In 1988, Le Pen referred to French-Jewish politician Michel Durafour as "Mr. Durafour-crematoire". Four means over in French, and the statement it a clear reference to Nazi concentration camps.
Le Pen is particularly famous for a long history of Holocaust denial, minimization, and revisionism. More than once, he has questioned the existence of gas chambers during the Holocaust. On several occasions, Le Pen has called the gas chambers at Auschwitz a "detail of history".
When confronted by journalists about his statements on the Holocaust, Le Pen replied that "But that is what you believe. I don't feel obliged to adhere to that view."
I observe that in Auschwitz there was the IG Farben factory, there were 80,000 laborers working there. As far as I know they were not gassed, anyway, nor burned.
