News From CODOH (Committee For Open Debate On The Holocaust)

ThoughtCrime: 03/15/07

Germar Rudolf sentenced to 30 months in prison

Leading revisionist scholar Germar Rudolf, author of the Rudolf Report; Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the 'Gas Chambers' of Auschwitz has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment by a court in Mannheim, Germany. Rudolf, who is married to an American citizen was deported last year from the United States to Germany where he was charged with "incitement to racial hatred." Rudolf has written and edited several books on the Holocaust. An anthology that he edited, Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte (Dissecting the Holocaust) was ordered burned by a German judge.

The treatment of this German scholar by the government of Germany is an indictment of that country for flagrant human rights abuses. Rudolf's sentence is also a clear demonstration of the need for repeal of all "Holocaust denial" laws throughout Europe.

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