Henry Coston

Henry Coston (20 December 1910 – 26 July 2001) was a French far-right, antisemitic journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.

Biography After joining the Action française, Coston was influenced by journalist Édouard Drumont and took over his newspaper La Libre Parole (an antisemitic paper well-known during the Dreyfus affair) in the 1930s. He had previously learned his trade editing La France Ouvrière with Henry Charbonneau. At the same time he created an "Anti-Jewish Youth" organisation "which campaigned for the exclusion of Jews from French life." In the run-up to World War II, he was also in close touch with Ulrich Fleischhauer, German publisher of an internationally distributed anti-Jewish propaganda newsletter, the Welt-Dienst / World-Service / Service Mondial.

During World War II, Coston belonged to Jacques Doriot's fascist PPF. He also was vice-president of the "Association of anti-Jewish Journalists" and he organised the publication of one of the most antisemitic document of the Vichy regime, a tract entitled "I hate you" (Je vous hais).