Gaston-Armand Amaudruz

Gaston-Armand "Guy" Amaudruz (21 December 1920 – 7 September 2018) was a Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier.

Biography Initially a supporter of the Swiss fascist movement of Arthur Fonjallaz, he came to wider attention in 1949 when he published Ubu Justicier au Premier Procès de Nuremberg, one of the first works to question the veracity of the Holocaust. Increasingly active in neo-fascism, he organized conferences in Malmö in 1951 which led to the formation of a pan-European nationalist group known as the European Social Movement and then led the more radical splinter group known as the New European Order later that year. This group sought the creation of a new Rome–Berlin axis to unite Europe against capitalism and communism and in January 1953 set up a European Liaison Office under Amaudruz in Lausanne to co-ordinate the work of affiliated groups. He also became an early member of the Volkspartei der Schweiz but left the party over the issue of South Tyrol (where he was opposed to irredentism).

In 2000 Amaudruz was sentenced to a year in a Swiss jail for Holocaust denial, and returned to prison on similar charges in 2003. However, as of 2005 he was continuing to publish a far right journal, Courrier du continent.

He died on 7 September 2018, at the age of 97.