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Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust
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Revisionist Editor fined in France
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A French court fined a magazine editor $5,200 for publishing revisionist articles. Gabriel Andres, editor of Rot un Wiss (Red and White) questioned the existence of “gas chambers” at Struthof-Natzweiler, a concentration camp in Alsace. Supporters of the orthodox Holocaust story believe that SS Professor August…
German Censors Indict CompuServe Official
On February 26, a CompuServe official was indicted for providing access to objectionable materials on the Internet. German prosecutors indicted Felix Somm, the Managing Director of CompuServe operations in Germany and Central Europe, for allegedly distributing “illegal pornography” and “other materials.” This marks the first case in which an indictment was rendered against a service…
Germans Imprison Revisionist Journalist
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A German court has sentenced Hans-Christian Wendt, a 25 year-old journalist to one year in jail for spreading “neo-Nazi propaganda.” The court found Wendt, a member of the “Die Nationalen'' group, guilty of inciting racial hatred. In its judgment, the court used typical rhetoric branding Wendt…
German Court Orders Nuremberg book Confiscated, Author Fined
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A judge in Munich has ruled that Carlos Porter has violated the German law against defamation and desecration. Mr. Porter has been fined 6,000 DM for writing and distributing his revisionist analysis of the Nuremberg trials, Not Guilty at Nuremberg. The total fine amounts to 6,000…
Police Raid Revisionist Bookstore in Spain
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Spanish police raided a Barcelona bookstore and seized over 7,000 books. Some of the confiscated books questioned the traditional holocaust story while other are said to have espoused National Socialism. According to Spanish thoughtpolice, Pedro Varela, the store's owner, was arrested and later released on bail….
Austrian Website Owner Jailed, Threatened w/10 Years in Prison
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Chemical engineer Wolfgang Fröhlich has been jailed and threatened with ten years imprisonment for operating his World War Two revisionist website (once at http://www.c2.net/~bs-org/frohlich/frohlich.htm), according to information The Campaign for Radical Truth in History has received from [email protected]. bs-org writes : “Fröhlich is or rather was…
Lutheran Minister Sentenced to Six Months for Revisionism
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A lower court in Heilbronn, Germany, has sentenced Manfred Junger, 58 years old, to six months imprisonment without probation for distributing pamphlets which challenge the official history of the “Holocaust.” The pamphlets cast doubt on the claims regarding “gas chambers” at Auschwitz. This is the second…
Selections from Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor From The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 1996 In Defense of Free Speech Most reasonable people accept it as a given that the free and open marketplace of ideas is where the truth is most likely to emerge. Surely the opposite would be to arbitrarily proclaim the “Truth,” stifling…
Lawyer Convicted for Revisionism in France
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Eric Delcroix, a 52 year old defense lawyer, was convicted in Paris on October 22, 1996 for “contesting crimes against humanity.” For publishing his book, La police de la pensee contre le revisionisme (The Thought Police Against Revisionism), Delcroix was fined 20,000F, 1,500F to each of…
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