"Holocaust-denial"
"Truth needs no laws to support it. Throughout history, from Galileo to Zundel to Irving, only lies and liars have resorted to the courts to enforce adherence to dogma.2 charged for Holocaust denial
People who think Elvis is still alive are not arrested. People who claim to have seen Bigfoot don't go to jail. People who claim to have taken a ride in an alien UFO, don't have their lives and careers ruined. Only in this one area of inquiry will the mere asking of a question result in a broadside of legal force against the heretic." WRH
18/04/2006 - (South-Afrika)
BERLIN - German prosecutors say they have charged a German far-right activist, extradited from the United States, and a Belgian man, handed over by the Netherlands, with incitement for allegedly denying the Holocaust.
On Tuesday, prosecutors in the western city of Mannheim said Germar Rudolf and Siegfried Verbeke were accused of "systematically" denying or playing down the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews in documents and on the internet, and of stirring anti-Semitic hatred. Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany. It carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment.
Rudolf, 41, published a study claiming to prove that the Nazis did not gas Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was deported to Germany from the US in November, to serve a 14-month prison sentence for a 1995 conviction on similar charges. Verbeke, 64, was arrested in the Netherlands and also extradited to Germany in November.
Prosecutors in Mannheim are leading a similar, but unrelated case, against Ernst Zundel, a German deported from Canada last year. +++
/And let's not forget the British Historian David Irving, who has been in an Austrian jail since November 2005! - tj/
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