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By CODOH ∙ December 2, 1996
“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…
By Christian Lindtner ∙ October 19, 1996
Several German researchers sit in prison or are on their way there. The mere printing of an indictment can make one punishable for “inciting the masses.” For Denmark, this development in our southern neighbor, upon whom we depend in many ways, is a cause for concern. If the reader believes that book burning belongs to…
By CODOH ∙ April 21, 1995
“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…
By Hans Schmidt ∙ January 1, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Travelers to and from Germany are now being arrested at German airports if they have expressed themselves, even in the remote past, in speech or in writing which is construed as “illegal” according to the German Federal Penal Code 130 Article 3 regarding “defamation.” This retroactive…
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 ∙ October 22, 1992
“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…
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…
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 ∙ April 8, 1986
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Police raided the home of retired judge Wilhelm Stäglich on April 8th. Police were apparently looking for a German-language edition of a videotape featuring Professor Robert Faurisson entitled, The Problem of the Gas Chambers. Police were unable to find a copy of the prohibited videotape. Judge…
By CODOH ∙ October 28, 1993
“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…
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