Germany– Holocaust Denier Ernst Zundel Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

In mid-February 2007, a German court sentenced Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for denying the Holocaust. This is the maximum sentence for this offense. Zundel had been extradited from Canada after he had been convicted of racism and the denial of the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis.

Ernst Zundel, 67, has written such works as "Did Six Million Really Die"? He has been in prison in Germany since March 2005 after his extradition from Canada. He was denied bail for fear that he would flee the country.

In the closing statement Zundel said that he would set up an international commission of experts who would research the Holocaust. If the commission determines that Jews were exterminated in gas chambers, he said, he would call a press conference in order to apologize to the Jews and the other victims. The trial was suspended at the end of 2005 after the judge had dismissed one of the defense attorneys after she had issued summonses that ostensibly denied the Holocaust. The trial was resumed only a year later.

Zundel is a German citizen who spent most of his life in Canada. The set up an Internet site and disseminated a publication denying that the Holocaust had ever happened. During the Holocaust denial conference in Iran, Zundel's posters appeared as did those of other Holocaust deniers.

Source: http://www.nrg.co.il/

Date: 15^th February 2007

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