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Paul Rassinier was a French author and Holocaust survivor who became a controversial figure in Holocaust historiography. Rassinier was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was later transferred to other camps, including Dora and Neuengamme, and was ultimately liberated in 1945.

After the war, Rassinier became a critic of the Holocaust, arguing that many of the widely accepted accounts of atrocities committed during the period were exaggerated or fabricated. He published several books on the topic, including "The Drama of the European Jews" and "Debunking the Genocide Myth."

Rassinier's writings were highly controversial, and scholars have criticized his work as inaccurate and selective in its use of evidence. Nonetheless, his criticisms of certain aspects of Holocaust historiography have influenced subsequent discussions of the period, and his work remains a subject of debate among historians and scholars today.