About Maurice Bardèche
Maurice Bardèche was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism and Holocaust denial in post–World War II Europe. Viewed as the "father-figure of Holocaust denial", Bardèche introduced in his works many aspects of neo-fascist and Holocaust denial propaganda techniques, methodology and ideological structures; his work is deemed influential in regenerating post-war European far-right ideas at a time of the identity crisis in the 1950–1960s. Bardèche founded instead the more tactical and moderate Comité de Coordination des Forces Nationales Françaises. He co-founded the Comité National Français, an umbrella organization for extremist groups to operate, but stepped away when the movement embarked on a violently antisemitic course under the leadership of René Binet. According to scholar Alice Kaplan, it was "probably the first general history of cinema written in France, if not the world." Writing for the Revue française, Bardèche also became a film critic for the art magazines 1933 and L'Assaut.
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