There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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 ∙ May 9, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager…
By CODOH ∙ May 5, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Austrian Revisionist publisher Gerd Honsik has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for 14 breaches of a law against “neo-Nazi” activities that makes it a crime to deny crimes allegedly committed by the Hitler regime. Honsik, 51, had written in his magazine “Halt!” that hydrocyanic gas…
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 Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1996
Background George Orwell was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in…
By CODOH ∙ November 15, 1991
“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…
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 ∙ September 16, 1989
“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…
By CODOH ∙ May 8, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The headquarters home of Ernst Zündel, the German-born Canadian resident who has for several years directed a world-wide revisionist campaign from Toronto, was severely damaged by fire after an unknown assailant doused the building with gasoline at five a.m. on May 7-8 and set it ablaze….
By CODOH ∙ July 13, 1986
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Dr. Henri Roques has had his PhD ruled invalid by the University of Nantes, France. Roques was awarded his doctorate after presenting his dissertation which demonstrated that the written confessions of Kurt Gerstein, a former officer of the SS, were groundless. Roques also demonstrated how postwar…
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