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By David Irving ∙ February 20, 2019
The English Centre of International PEN reviewed the film approvingly: THE final interview, and arguably the most controversial, was with the historian David Irving. While he still vehemently denies accusations of racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, Irving conceded that he had voiced "doubts and scepticism" about Auschwitz during a speech he had given in Austria…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ October 10, 2015
In Europe, Holocaust denial is illegal in 14 nations. The broad definition for Holocaust denial for these laws is the denial of the systematic genocidal killing of millions of ethnic minorities in Europe (including Jews) by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. That kills any possibility of free analysis outside the orthodoxy of the…
By Mark Weber ∙ August 1, 2000
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. The 58-year-old scholar was scheduled…
By Mark Weber ∙ September 1, 1995
In Austria, as in other European countries, the struggle for freedom of expression and historical truth continues – with victories as well as setbacks. In March 1992, a prominent Austrian engineer made headlines because he had written a detailed essay, “Holocaust: Belief and Facts,” that rejects key elements of the Holocaust gas chamber story. In…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ April 1, 2010
Banged Up: Survival as a Political Prisoner in 21st Century Europe, by David Irving Focal Point Publications, Windsor, England, 2008. 146pp., illustrated, with notes, indexed. Banged Up is David Irving’s autobiographical account of his arrest and 400 days of solitary confinement in an Austrian prison for having presented what amounted to inconvenient history at a…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ July 31, 2012
On Saturday, June 21, [2003] chemical engineer (Dipl. Ing.) Wolfgang Fröhlich, 51, was arrested in Vienna, Austria, and taken to prison. His trial could last two days, as the public prosecutor wishes, or as long as two or three weeks, as his attorney, Dr. Herbert Schaller, hopes. For seven years, Fröhlich had sent to jurists,…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 12, 2009
Banged Up: Survival as a Political Prisoner in 21st Century Europe by David Irving Focal Point Publications, Windsor, England, 2008. 146pp., illustrated, with notes, indexed. Banged Up is David Irving’s autobiographical account of his arrest and 400 days of solitary confinement in an Austrian prison for having presented what amounted to inconvenient history at a…
By CODOH ∙ April 28, 2009
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Gerd Honsik was sentenced to five years in prison by a Vienna court that found him guilty of “Wiederbetätigung”— “reengaging” in Nazi era beliefs. The crime is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. While living in Spain from the early 1990s to evade a…
By CODOH ∙ January 19, 2008
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An Austrian court has sentenced Wolfgang Fröhlich, a former city councilor to four years in prison for Holocaust denial, adding another two-and-a-half years of a previous suspended sentence. Fröhlich pleaded “absolutely not guilty.” He had already served 23 months behind bars since 2003 and was quite…
By CODOH ∙ December 3, 2007
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Austrian author Gerd Honsik has been ordered to serve an 18 month sentence in Austria for the thoughtcrime of Holocaust denial. Honsik fled to Spain after being convicted on what amounts to a thoughtcrime 15 years ago. Honsik, who is now 67 years old, must serve…
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