By CODOH ∙ October 22, 1996
“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…
By CODOH ∙ October 15, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Greek bookstore, 'Nea Thesis' was attacked by armed hoodlums for openly selling the new Greek edition of Roger Garaudy's book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. On the afternoon of October 15, 1996 the 'Nea Thesis' bookstore was open for business as usual. There were…
By CODOH ∙ September 6, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The offices of a major English publisher of revisionist materials were badly damaged in an arson attack today. Wilson Publishing and Historical Review Press, in Uckfield, East Sussex, was discovered in flames at 4.30am. There were no reported injuries in the blaze which destroyed the offices…
By CODOH ∙ July 4, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell As the first seconds of July 4, 1996 ticked away, the Bradley R. Smith / CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) website was shut down from the World Wide Web. The Bradley R. Smith Website was dedicated to the cause of Free Speech and…
By CODOH ∙ January 11, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Scarcely had new U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich appointed a new House historian, Christina Jeffrey, 47, than she was fired on January 9. Her crime? Even-handedness. It seems that back in 1986, when she was called upon to conduct, for the then Republican-run U.S….
By CODOH ∙ March 27, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell In a March 27 raid of the Grabert publishing firm in Tuebingen, 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 über strittige Fragen des 20….
By CODOH ∙ March 22, 1991
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On March 22, Ernst Zündel, who had traveled to Germany to help organize an international conference on The Leuchter Report, was arrested at the home of Institute for Historical Review author Ingrid Weckert. Zündel, who is currently appealing his conviction on the obscurantist charge of “spreading…
By CODOH ∙ April 10, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 10, the appeals court in Caen (Normandy) upheld convictions against Vincent Reynouard, a 23-year-old chemical engineer, and Remi Pontier, an information engineer, for distributing leaflets and stickers that question the existence of extermination gas chambers in Third Reich concentration camps. The two defendants were…
By CODOH ∙ January 7, 1985
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) screamed obscenities while attacking Ernst Zündel, who questions whether six million Jews were killed by the Nazis, outside Toronto's downtown County Courthouse this morning. Zündel, a 46-year-old Toronto man charged with spreading false news, and about 15 supporters and…
By CODOH ∙ May 5, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell British historian David Irving was fined 10,000 marks ($6,000) by a German court May 5 for public statements denouncing stories of mass exterminations of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz as a myth. Munich district court judge Thomas Stelzner ruled that Irving was guilty of “disparaging…
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