| Erik Haaest | |
| Birth Name: | Erik Hansen |
| Birth Date: | 14 March 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Toftegaard, Hundslev, Kølstrup, Denmark |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Nationality: | Danish |
| Occupation: | Journalist and author |
| Known For: | Books on Danish pro-Nazi collaborators |
Erik Haaest (14 March 1935 - 23 January 2012) was a controversial Danish journalist and author.[1]
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]