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Preamble Accredited chemist Germar Rudolf [...] has written me to request an expert statement regarding an anthology titled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch über strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Ernst Gauss and published in 1994 by Grabert-Verlag in Tübingen, Germany. The foremost issue was to be the question …

The original German edition of this handbook is illegal in the Federal Republic of Germany and police not only raided the publisher, printer, editor, distributors, wholesalers, and multi-copy-purchasers, but burned the confiscated copies of an initial run of some 17,500 and attempted to arrest the editor Ernst Gauss, i.e., Germar …

A graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Lewis McCarthy, was among those who chose to protect freedom of speech on the internet by fighting the censorship levied against the web site of Ernst Zündel. Officials at U Mass requested that McCarthy remove the materials that he posted …

A German government censorship agency has “indexed” as “dangerous to youth” translations of two leaflets published by the Institute for Historical Review. At the request of Germany’s Interior Ministry, the “Federal Review Agency for Literature Dangerous to Youth” (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften) on October 17 and 18, 1996, “indexed” unauthorized …

Don Guttenplan is a Jewish journalist who observed the 2000 trial of British historian David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt[1] and wrote a book about it.[2] In his article “How Many Jews Does It Take…?” published in the British magazine Index on Censorship no. 2, 2005,[3] Guttenplan claims …

While an officer in a German anti-aircraft unit in 1944, Wilhelm Stäglich was for several months stationed in the vicinity of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The postwar doubts he expressed about alleged mass exterminations carried out at Auschwitz have led to twenty years of disciplinary proceedings, including his early retirement …

Editor’s Note The following is taken from the Austrian student periodical Die Aula (No. 3, 1980, pp. 9–10), A-8010 Graz, Merangasse 13, Austria. Professor Hellmut Diwald, distinguished professor of history at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, West Germany, became a figure of some considerable controversy in academic and press circles …

[Note: Ernst Gauss was a nom de plume that Germar Rudolf adopted after his persecution by the government of Germany. The political situation in Germany in 1994 resulted in Rudolf's need to hide his true identity. The following paper was part of the original German edition of Dissecting the Holocaust, …

What would happen in an American criminal court if you asked for a new trial date on the grounds that you had previously been unable to appear due to radiation burns suffered while experimenting with an atomic bomb? If you were on trial for murder, a psychiatric examination would most …

Aktenzeichen: 2 Ws 98/98 Beschluss von 3.2.98 Datiert: 10.02.1998 --- 2 Ws 98/98 18 Ns 112 Js 11637/96 StA b.d. LG München I III BerL 117/98 StA.b.d. OLG München Geschäftstelle des Oberlandsgerichts München Justizbebäude Nymphenberger Strasse 16 80097 München Richtern: Dr. Glueck Mallwitz Seul March 1998 BY FAX Final Statement …

Certified True Copy Reference no. 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 Mr. Carlos Whitlock PORTER Niveze Bas, no. 112, B-4845 SART LEZ SPA Belgium [stamp: Effective as of: Munich, Clerk of the Court] Born on 06.03.1947 in Pasadena/United States of America, stateless. Order of Punishment Inquiries of the State Prosecutor's Office …

[The document is a printed form with a few blanks filled in by typewriter.] Copy Reference no. 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 (Please indicate reference in all correspondence! IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE! JUDGEMENT of the Lower District Court of Munich In the criminal case against Carlos Whitlock PORTER …

[Note: The Appeal was filed by fax at 2:00 A.M. on 14 April 1997.] [Excerpts] [name of lawyer withheld] 3 June 1997 As agreed, I have examined the files in your case and am able to report my general opinion as follows: On 16.8.1996, you sent a letter written in …

Carlos W. Porter Niveze Bas 112, B-4845 SART Belgium Sart, 7 January 1997 Judge Zeilinger Lower District Court, Justice Building Nymphenburger Str. 16, D-80097 MUNICH Reference no.: 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 Judge Zeilinger, I hereby object to your order of punishment! I don't recognize your right to try me …

Lower District Court, Munich Division for Criminal Cases and Fines Reference no.: (please indicate in all correspondence!) 8430 Cs 112 Js 11637/96 x/ Marked as applicable 80097 Munich 27.02.1997 Justizgebauede Nymphenburger Strasse 16 Room Telephone (0 89) 55 97-4353 [deletions] Fax: (0 89) 5597 4428 (Criminal Court) Lower District Court, …

Richter Ulrich Landgericht Muenchen I Justizgebaeude Nymphenburger Strasse 16 D-800335 Muenchen Spa, 1 July 1997 Landgericht Muenchen Az. 18 Ns 112 Js 11637/96 Fax: (089) 55 97 43 54 BY REGISTERED MAIL AND FAX Judge Ulrich! With regards to your subpoena of 22 May: Without prejudicial admission, waiver, and with …

Richter Ulrich Landgericht Muenchen I Justizgebaeude Nymphenburger Strasse 16 D-800335 Muenchen Spa, 1 September 1997 Landgericht Muenchen Az. 18 Ns 112 Js 11637/96 Fax: (089) 55 97 43 54 BY REGISTERED MAIL AND FAX Judge Ulrich! Without prejudicial admission, waiver, and with all due reserves. With regards to your summons …

Jürgen Rieger In October 1996 a German government agency “indexed” as “dangerous to youth” translations of two popular leaflets published by the Institute for Historical Review. Germany’s “Federal Review Agency for Literature Dangerous to Youth” (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften), acting at the request of the country’s Interior Ministry, “indexed” unauthorized …

Germany The Federal Republic of Germany is a constitutional parliamentary democracy with an independent judiciary; citizens periodically choose their representatives in free and fair multiparty elections. The head of the Federal Government, the Chancellor, is elected by the lower house of Parliament. The powers of the Chancellor and of the …

In a March 27 raid of the Grabert publishing firm in Tübingen, Germany, criminal police seized all available copies of a new book of Holocaust revisionist scholarship. The banned work is a 400-page large-format anthology entitled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte: Ein Handbuch fiber strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts ("Foundations of …

On 5 December 1997, the court rejected the defendant's defence of justified absence due to pedal-driven brain-bashing machine induced injuries, partly on the grounds that he had failed to specify the exact date of his injury! How stupid can you get? He was given one week in which to object, …

Note: On 3 November, the defendant received a judgement from the State Court of Munich dated 23 October 1997 acknowledging receipt of the defendant's demands for evidence and for clarification of the charges against him, accompanied by his express refusal to appear, but without comment. [Excerpts] ...The subpoena was then …

Claus Nordbruch is the author of two books on freedom of expression in today’s Germany: Sind Gedanken noch frei? Zensur in Deutschland (“Still Free to Think?: Censorship in Germany”), published in 1998 by Universitas (Munich), and Der Vefassungsschutz: Organisation, Spitzel, Skandale (Tübingen: Hohenrain, 1999). Dr. Nordbruch lives in Pretoria, South …

What kind of a country is it where a considerable part of the people think, singing their national anthem could be forbidden? What country is it where folksingers might be put in jail for singing peaceful songs? What kind of a country is it where a mother of five gets …

A major advance for historical revisionism in Europe is the appearance of a new German-language scholarly journal, Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung. Now in its second year of publication, this "Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Research" offers first-rate writing and editing, and a high level of scholarship, presented in an attractively …

Everybody knows revisionism is an abomination. But it not only exists – it persists. Moral censure and penal convictions, vigilance committees, even the laws of the state – nothing works. For the past 20 years, revisionism has not stopped growing. A recent poll shows that 30 percent of the people …

Germany's cultural-political establishment no longer orders the destruction of "socially dangerous" literature in public bonfires. Today it resorts to more modern, environment-friendly methods to destroy "undesirable" books. In February 1995, thousands of copies of a revisionist work detailing postwar Jewish crimes against Germans were destroyed, following bitter attacks by Germany's …

This essay is adapted from Robert Faurisson’s foreword to Fredrick Töben’s forthcoming book, When Truth is No Defence: I Want to Break Free For the historian, the sociologist, or the jurist, the case of Australian revisionist Fredrick Töben is one of the simplest and most instructive. It is also both …

Werner Pfeifenberger (1941-2000): Death Claims a Victim of Legal Persecution Werner Pfeifenberger, a German professor of political science, took his life in Austria on May 13, 2000, a few weeks before he was to go on trial in Vienna for an allegedly revisionist and “neo-Nazi” essay published five years ago. …

Europe has become a quagmire of political correctness. With so-many anti-hate speech laws on the books throughout the continent, it is becoming more and more difficult to simply express an opinion. These laws are now so prevalent, influencing nearly every aspect of political debate, it is more accurate to describe …

In July news circled the globe that the body of Rudolf Hess, the one-time deputy to Adolf Hitler, was exhumed from a family funeral plot\. His bones were cremated and scattered at an undisclosed location at sea\. Karl-Willi Beck, the mayor of the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel where Hess was …

Arthur R. Butz was born and raised in New York City. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Control Sciences from the University of Minnesota. In 1966 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois), where he is now Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In addition to …

In an ominous blow against on-line freedom of speech, Germany’s highest court declared on December 12, 2000, that German law banning “Holocaust denial” material applies even to foreigners who post such content on Internet web sites outside of the country, as long as the material is accessible in Germany. The …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A German court has ordered that all copies of the book, Der Auschwitz-Mythos (The Auschwitz Myth) be seized. In addition, it has been ordered that the type from which it was printed be destroyed. The book was written by Dr. …