Dave Gahary Ernst Zündel Interview (1:29:32)

In this video (1 hour 29 minutes) the late Canadian Revisionist, Ernst Zundel (1939 – 2017) is interviewed at length by Dave Gahary of the American Free Press. Ernst tells Dave of his struggle for freedom and the major events in his life, which led to his deportation from Canada, to Germany. He also talks of his trial, and his many years in prison. Ernst tells Dave that he was a victim of "thoughtcrime" a term used by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Blair) in his parody of 1948 called 1984. In Orwell's book the state is a ruthless tyranny, led by Big Brother who not only subjects the population to draconian rules, but also attempts to make thinking the wrong way, a crime. In this state, Airstrip One, nobody is allowed to stray away from the truth of English Socialism or Ingsoc. According to the moment, the truth is whatever what the state says it is, even if it said it was something else before, although it never admits to doing so. Orwell worked at the Ministry of Information, which peddled misinformation, headed by Brendan Bracken (Big Brother or B-B). Orwell, as Ernst states actually wrote of his doubts about the "Holocaust" saying 'Are we being told the truth about the gas ovens of Poland?'. Upon being asked if he is a revisionist, Ernst, says he is, it being natural that one revises data with the emergence of new facts, just as one revises the existance of Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny. On being asked about his life, Ernst states his trial on an archaic law in Canada, was a major turning point. The "false news" new was actually enacted in England (Orwell's Airstrip One) in 1275, and was abandoned in the 1800s. However, the law remained in force in the British Empire, such places as Canada and India. After 9 years of legal proceedings, the law was eventually declared unconsitutional. Ernst tells Dave that the authorities have a problem with "revisionism" as it exposes their lies. Ernst talks of his childhood, the influcence of his father, his pacifism. It was his pacifism that led him to seek a new life in Canada, and to avoid military service in Germany. Ernst tells of the problems of prison life, even amusing tales of pens and pencils. Held in prison in the useless puppet state of Germany, Ernst says his wife, Ingrid Rimland, was not only unable to visit him, but also unable to go to anywhere in the European Union, as an warrant was out for her arrest.