Erik Haaest (14 March 1935 – 23 January 2012) was a controversial Danish journalist and author.[1]

Erik Haaest
Born
Erik Hansen

14 March 1935
Toftegaard, Hundslev, Kølstrup, Denmark
Died23 January 2012(2012-01-23) (aged 76)[1]
NationalityDanish
Occupation(s)Journalist and author
Known forBooks on Danish pro-Nazi collaborators

On 18 July 2007 the newspaper Information wrote that Haaest in September 1977 had published a pamphlet asserting that the Nazi concentration camp gas chambers never existed and that the Diary of Anne Frank was a forgery. This caused the Danish Arts Council to be condemned since it had funded Haaest's research into Danes who had served in the SS.[2] Information subsequently brought a retort from Haaest where he claimed to have been deliberately misquoted and referred to the allegations as an outrageous lie made to discredit and sabotage his authorship regarding Danish pro-Nazi collaborators.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Andreas Lindqvist (2012-01-26). "Statsstøttet dansk holocaustbenægter er død" [Government funded Danish holocaust denier dies] (in Danish). Politiken. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  2. ^ Anna von Sperling (2007-07-18). "Kunstrådet giver penge til Holocaust-skeptiker" [Arts council funds Holocaust sceptic] (in Danish). Dagbladet Information. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
  3. ^ Haaest, Erik (2007-08-01). "Informations kronik var løgn" [Information's article was a lie] (in Danish). Dagbladet Information. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
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