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WHAT
ARE THEY AFRAID OF?
German lawyer of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel sentenced to three-and-a-half years Jan. 14, 2008
BERLIN - The former lawyer for Ernst Zundel, a well-known Holocaust denier deported from Canada in 2005, has been convicted of incitement today for denying the genocide herself. Sylvia Stolz has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and has also been banned by the court from practicing law for five years. During the trial, Stolz called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in world history." Stolz was also convicted of charges of disparaging the country and its symbols and insulting the court. Stolz represented 67-year-old Zundel in his first trial in Germany, which collapsed after she was banned from the proceedings on grounds she was trying to sabotage them. Zundel's second trial ended in February, 2007 with his conviction for incitement for denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison. In his sentencing of Stolz, Glenz said that she had used Zundel's trial in order to deny the Holocaust and to spread revisionist ideas. During Zundel's trial, Stolz repeatedly disputed the Nazis' mass murder of Jews, called for hatred of the Jewish population and ended a legal document with the words "Heil Hitler." Austrian Holocaust denier gets six-and-a-half years in prison VIENNA (AFP)---A Vienna court sentenced Monday a former extreme-right city councillor to four years in prison for Holocaust denial, adding another two-and-a-half years of a previous suspended sentence, a report said. It was the third time that Wolfgang Frohlich, 56, had been found guilty on similar charges, following letters to Austrian members of parliament and Pope Benedict XVI denouncing the Holocaust as a "Satanic lie," the APA news agency said. Pleading "absolutely not guilty," according to APA, Frohlich had already served 23 months behind bars since 2003 -- and gasped in court as the other 29 months were added. Frohlich -- kicked out of the populist far-right FPOe party in 1994 -- is to appeal, said his lawyer, Harald Schuster. Austria has one of the strictest sets of laws surrounding Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi activity. British revisionist historian David Irving spent 13 months in jail after his arrest in 2005 before being expelled to the UK. THE
TRUTH WILL SET US FREE!
This repression underscores the futility
of Europe's Holocaust denial laws. Why are European countries directing so
many resources towards the prosecution of individuals who pose no threat to
public safety, persons, or property? Not only is it a waste of time, but it
also implies that there is something to hide. Why should the official Holocaust
tale require statutory protection? The truth should not require special protection;
it will survive any challenge.
‘The wise man
wants to hear both sides of every question’
You may have heard of so-called Revisionists who "deny the Holocaust." This publication, a revisionist best-seller, is an authoritative and detailed account of the facts behind the fiction. It details the Nazi plan for a Jewish homeland in Madagascar (blocked by the British); the Jewish declaration of war against Germany; the Wannsee Conference; the Einsatzgruppen; the Warsaw Ghetto; the chaotic state of the Concentration Camp system at the end of the war; fake photographs; and the "Final Solution." This hard to find, extensively referenced publication is an essential addition to the library of anyone with an interest in WWII history. Magazine format, 28 pages, illustrated with photographs. Published in Britain by the Historical Review Press (ISBN 0-906879-95-0) and available as a special item from the Heretical Press. This publication has no formal recommended selling price but when sold normally it would be £4.00 or more. MAJOR SECTION HEADS: Introduction to the 4th Edition Conclusion German Policy Towards the Jews Prior to the War German Policy Towards the Jews After the Outbreak of War Population and Emigration The Six Million: Documentary Evidence The Nuremberg Trials Auschwitz and Polish Jewry Some Concentration Camp Memoirs The Nature and Condition of War-Time Concentration Camps The Jews and the Concentration Camps: A Factual Appraisal by the Red Cross The Truth at Last: The Work of Paul Rassinier From Section One, German Policy Towards the Jews Prior to the War Rightly or wrongly, the Germany of Adolf Hitler considered the Jews to be a disloyal and avaricious element within the national community, as well as a force of decadence in Germany's cultural life. This was held to be particularly unhealthy since, during the Weimar period, the Jews had risen to a position of remarkable strength and influence in the nation, particularly in law, finance and the mass media, even though they constituted only one percent of the population. The fact that Karl Marx was a Jew and that Jews such as Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebnecht were disproportionately prominent in the leadership of communist movements in Germany also tended to convince the Nazis of the powerful internationalist and Communist tendencies of the Jewish people. It is no part of the discussion here to argue whether the German attitude to the Jews was right or not, or to judge whether its legislative measures against them were just or unjust. Our concern is simply with the fact that, believing of the Jews as they did, the Nazis' solution to the problem was to deprive them of their influence within the nation by various legislative acts, and most important of all, to encourage their emigration from the country altogether. By 1939, the great majority of German Jews had emigrated, all of them with a sizeable proportion of their assets. Never at any time had the Nazi leadership even contemplated a policy of genocide towards them. It is very significant, however, that certain Jews were quick to interpret these policies of internal discrimination as equivalent to extermination itself. A 1936 anti-German propaganda book by Leon Feuchtwanger and others entitled Der Gelbe Fleck: Die Allsrotung von 500,000 Deutchen Juden (The Yellow Spot: The Outlawing of 500,000 German Jews, Paris, 1936), presents a typical example. Despite its baselessness in fact, the annihilation of the Jews is discussed from the first pages – straightforward emigration being regarded as the physical "extermination" of German Jewry. The Nazi concentration camps for political prisoners are also seen as potential instruments of genocide, and special reference is made to the 100 Jews still detained in Dachau in 1936, of whom 60 had been there since 1933. A further example was the sensational book by the German-Jewish Communist, Hans Beimler, called Four Weeks in the Hands of Hitler's Hell-Hounds: The Nazi Murder Camp of Dachau, which was published in New York as early as 1933. Detained for his Marxist affiliations, he claimed that Dachau was a death camp, though by his own admission he was released after only a month there. The post-war Communist regime in East Germany used to issue a 'Hans Beimler Award' for services to Communism. The fact that anti-Nazi genocide propaganda was being disseminated at this impossibly early date therefore, by people biased on racial or political grounds, should suggest great caution to the independent-minded observer when approaching similar stories of the war period. The encouragement of Jewish emigration should not be confused with the purpose of concentration camps in pre-war Germany. These were used for the detention of political opponents and subversives – principally liberals, Social Democrats and Communists of all kinds, of whom a proportion were Jews such as Hans Beimler. Unlike the millions enslaved in the Soviet Union, the German concentration camp population was always small; Reitlinger admits that between 1934 and 1938 it seldom exceeded 20,000 throughout the whole of Germany and the number of Jews was never more than 3,000 (The S.S.: Alibi of a Nation, London, 1956, p. 253). Did Six Million Really Die? is available
here
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People's Party, BM Box 5581, London WC1N 3XX
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