German lawyer of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel sentenced to 3 1/2 years

▐ January 23, 2008 BERLIN - The former lawyer for Ernst Zundel, a well-known Holocaust denier deported from Canada in 2005, has been convicted of incitement today for denying the genocide herself. Sylvia Stolz has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and has also been banned by the court from practicing law for five years.

During the trial, Stolz called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in world history." Stolz was also convicted of charges of disparaging the country and its symbols and insulting the court. Stolz represented 67-year-old Zundel in his first trial in Germany, which collapsed after she was banned from the proceedings on grounds she was trying to sabotage them. Zundel's second trial ended in February, 2007 with his conviction for incitement for denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison.

In his sentencing of Stolz, Glenz said that she had used Zundel's trial in order to deny the Holocaust and to spread revisionist ideas. During Zundel's trial, Stolz repeatedly disputed the Nazis' mass murder of Jews, called for hatred of the Jewish population and ended a legal document with the words "Heil Hitler." ◘

►Just asking! Won't all of this backfire one day? -tj