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Fred Leuchter Arrested in Germany

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the American execution hardware specialist who insists that claims of wartime mass gassings at Auschwitz are not true, was arrested in Cologne, Germany, on October 28, half an hour before his scheduled appearance on a television show. Leuchter was arrested without an…

Computer Network Holocaust Debate Closed Down

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The latest effort by revisionists to foster open debate on the holocaust issue over a computer network “bulletin board system” (BBS) has been closed down by network censors after just three weeks. On September 9, 1992, the GE-nie computer network permitted the creation of a new…

German Court Jails Deckert for Two Years

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Karlsruhe court under Judge Eva-Marie Wollentin on April 21 sentenced Guenter Deckert, former school teacher and chairman of the right-wing National Party of Germany (NPD), to two years jail for interpreting at the meeting at which American execution-technology consultant Fred A. Leuchter spoke in Weinheim…

Faurisson Convicted of Questioning Gas Chambers

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 18, 1991 Professor Robert Faurisson was convicted of violating France's peculiar law against questioning “the existence of one or more crimes against humanity as defined by Article 6 of [the charter of] the International Military Tribunal, annexed to the London Agreement of August 8,…

David Cole: Portrait

On January 2, 1998, David Cole renounced Holocaust revisionism and all of the work that he had done for the cause of historical truth. Many people are wondering what happened. What brought on this change of heart? From all appearances it was a result of threats made against him by the Jewish Defense League (JDL)….

Museum Protester Attacked and Beaten

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell David Willcox was among the protesters when the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated. He waved a Palestinian flag. “I thought that somehow that day we had to make a presence for the Palestinians,” he said. Later that day he was attacked and beaten. Michael Schneider, self-identified…

Revisionist Historian Suffers Savage Beating

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell One of Europe's most prominent Holocaust revisionists, Dr. Robert Faurisson, was severely injured in a nearly fatal attack on September 16, 1989. After spraying a stinging gas into his face, temporarily blinding him, three assailants punched Dr. Faurisson to the ground and then repeatedly kicked him…

Free Speech Denied at Berkeley

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On October 13, at the University of California at Berkeley, the university chancellor cancelled a hall contract for British historian David Irving. It was claimed that the last minute cancellation was due to insufficient security resources. The organizers of Mr. Irving's lecture were forced to move…

German General Sentenced To Imprisonment

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A German court has sentenced Otto-Ernst Remer, an 80-year-old retired army general, to 22 months imprisonment for publishing articles disputing wartime mass killings at Auschwitz in gas chambers. On October 22, 1992, a criminal court in Schweinfurt found Remer guilty of “popular incitement” and “incitement to…

Leuchter Arrested in London

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell American gas chamber expert Fred A. Leuchter Jr. was detained by British police at a private meeting in London on November 15, and held illegally overnight in a cold cell before being kicked out of the country. Leuchter and his wife legally entered the United Kingdom…

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