11 Facts About Dariusz Ratajczak

Dariusz Ratajczak was a Polish historian, publicist and right-wing activist.

Dariusz Ratajczak's mother, Alina Czuchryj, was born in Chodorow.

Dariusz Ratajczak finished Opole high school and enrolled to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

From 1988 Ratajczak was working in a higher education institution in Opole, later changed to University of Opole, as a history lecturer until 1999.

The University of Opole suspended Dariusz Ratajczak from teaching in 1999.

The reason for the low sentence was that Dariusz Ratajczak's self-published book had only 230 copies and that in the second edition and in his public appearances he criticized the Holocaust denial.

Dariusz Ratajczak remained defiant and denied all charges, appealing for an outright acquittal; his critics appealed demanding a harsher sentence, including a prison term.

Dariusz Ratajczak's book has been described as having involved the first serious case of Holocaust denial in Poland.

Dariusz Ratajczak revised his book in 2005, attributing the claims regarding Zyklon B to historical revisionists.

Dariusz Ratajczak was found dead in a car parked near the shopping centre in Opole on 11 June 2010.

In 2002 Dariusz Ratajczak was considered as a candidate of the League of Polish Families for the Opole's voivodeship sejmik, but after his candidature caused controversy he resigned from running for the office.