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By Jürgen Graf ∙ June 1, 2000
On April 10, 2000, a Swiss court sentenced 79-year-old publicist and retired teacher Gaston-Armand Amaudruz to one year in prison for “denying” the existence of homicidal gas chambers in World War II German concentration camps. Amaudruz was found guilty of violating Switzerland’s five-year-old “anti-racism” law, which makes it a crime to “deny, grossly minimize or…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 2000
A Polish court has decided not to punish a history professor for a “Holocaust denial” book that presents arguments questioning aspects of the familiar Six Million extermination story. On December 7, 1999, the regional court in Opole, in southern Poland, found that Dariusz Ratajczak supported revisionist views on the Holocaust issue in his book, Tematy…
By Günter Deckert ∙ February 15, 2013
Friends, Comrades and Fighters for the TRUTH in WW II History, The time has come! I must soon enter prison to serve my 5-month sentence although my constitutional objection has not yet been decided. – I am supposed to report for jail on January 2nd, 2013. The release date will be June 2nd as I…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Gerhard Förster Gerhard Förster, a courageous Swiss publisher of revisionist books, died in his sleep during the night of September 22-23, 1998, in a home for the elderly in Baden, northern Switzerland. He was a co-defendant, with Jürgen Graf, in the “Holocaust denial” trial in Switzerland on July 16, 1998 – the most important legal…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
In a new book that proves he would rather be right than President, Patrick J. Buchanan has provoked the most heated public discussion about World War II history in many years. In A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny (Regnery), the well-known journalist, commentator and presidential candidate eloquently pleads for a US foreign policy…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 15, 1999
Pedro Varela in the aftermath of the attack on the Europa bookstore, January 16, 1999. In a victory for free speech in Europe, a high court in Spain has suspended a lower court conviction of a Barcelona book dealer for distributing publications that dispute Holocaust extermination claims. On November 16, 1998, a Barcelona criminal court…
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
A Spanish court has sentenced Pedro Varela, a Barcelona book dealer, to five years imprisonment for incitement to racial hatred and for denying or justifying genocide. The sentence, handed down on November 16, 1998, is Spains first conviction for Holocaust denial. It is based on the countrys 1995 anti-genocide and anti-discrimination law, which effectively creates…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Support for historical revisionism has traditionally been strong in northern Europe. Orders for books and tapes arrive regularly at the IHR from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland – countries where most educated people understand English. And unlike citizens of France, Germany and a few other countries, Scandinavians still enjoy the freedom to express skeptical views…
By Jürgen Graf ∙ October 1, 1998
Prosecutor Threatens Defense Witness A court in Switzerland has punished 47-year-old teacher Jürgen Graf and 78-year-old retired engineer Gerhard Förster with fines and prison terms for writing or publishing allegedly anti-Jewish books. A district court in the northern Swiss town of Baden on July 21 sentenced Graf, a leading Holocaust revisionist, to 15 months imprisonment…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
Since October 1997, German historian Udo Walendy has been serving a prison sentence for publishing dissident historical writings on the Holocaust issue. Two German courts have found him guilty of the crime of “popular incitement” for items that had appeared in several issues of the “Historical Facts” booklet series he edits and publishes. On May…
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