In the text, Viguier says the shoes and wig were a "reference to memorial sites and sites of pilgrimage" that were "brought together to stir readers' imaginations."

Concerning the wig, Viguier wrote "haircuts occur in all places of concentration for reasons of hygiene," and said claims that Nazis made soap from human fat and lampshades from human skin were "war propaganda".

As far as I'm aware, no serious historian now maintains that the stories of Jews being turned into lampshades and bars of soap were anything but fiction.

But we've reached the point where objective truth no longer matters.

The lawyer was also fined 5000 euros for simply writing a brief that defended his client from the charges laid against him!

On a separate charge, Soral was fined 10,000 euros for posting this image on his website. It shows a Charlie Chaplin-type figure asking "Holocaust, where are you?" with the words "Here", "There" and "There too" coming from a shoe, a bar of soap and a lampshade. A caption also reads "Historians nonplussed".