ZGram - 11/20/2004 - " Germar Rudolf arrested?"

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November 20, 2004 -

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Don't take my word for it - I am simply repeating what I heard.   A 
friend told me this morning that Germar Rudolf has been arrested. 
Does anybody know details?

Germar is a notable Revisionist, the author of the sterling "Rudolf 
Report" that confirmed and refined the hastily written Leuchter 
Report, commissioned by Ernst Zundel during the Second Great 
Holocaust Trial in 1988 on the contested "genocidal gas chambers" of 
Auschwitz.

As far as I know, Germar was in the United States as an asylum 
seeker, since an arrest warrant had been sworn out in Germany because 
of his scientific findings after having tested samples from the walls 
at Auschwitz for Zyklon B, the gas that is supposed to have killed 
millions of Jews. 

Below is some basic information on the severe consequences for 
revisionists questioning any aspect of the so-called "Holocaust."  I 
don't know the writer of this summary, but I consider its content 
essentially correct.


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Refutinator <se at deprogrammer.org> wrote:

Is Holocaust Revisionism illegal?

In the United States, it is covered by the First Amendment, like every
peaceful, scholarly speech, which means that it is perfectly legal to
voice, write, publish revisionist views. Things are quite different,
however, when we turn to  Canada, Australia, or even several countries
in Europe.

In Australia and Canada, everything that is offending to the Jewish
community will be prosecuted by their so-called "Human Rights
Commission", a body which exists parallelly to the legal system and
which can order the confiscation of publications, the payment of
fines, and the forced declaration of apologies by the 'perpetrators.'
Though these commissions are not part of the regular legal system,
disobeying them would by itself be a crime which in turn would lead to
criminal charges by the legal systems of Canada and Australia.
Although Holocaust Revisionism does not address anything about Jews
per se, all Jewish communities feel heavily offended by it, because
Revisionism directly or indirectly comes to the conclusion that
several Jewish personalities were not always truthful when testifying
about their experiences in World War II. Of course, it would be
surprising if Jews were to be the only identifiable group of humans
who never lie, distort, and exaggerate, but apparently leading Jewish
representative feel that nobody should ever be allowed to claim that
certain Jews were dishonest about the Holocaust.

In several European countries, Holocaust Revisionism is considered to
be a serious crime. In France, people can be sent to jail for up the a
year; in Switzerland up to three years; in Germany--as in Israel--for
five years; in Austria, a prison term up to 10 years is possible.

However, if we look into the legal situation, we must insist that
theoretically, Holocaust Revisionism should be perfectly legal in all
these countries. This is so because all these nations signed the
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which makes these Human
Rights binding on all these nations. Freedom of speech can be limited
only in cases of insult or incitement to criminal acts, but freedom of
scientific research and peaceful speech can never be
limited--theoretically. For this reason, a recent comprehensive German
doctoral dissertation on the "Punishment of the Auschwitz Lie" (Die
Strafbarkeit des Auschwitz-Leugnens) came to the conclusion that
Holocaust Revisionism itself can not be legally repressed: it would
violate basic human rights.



Letter of Public Prosecution Chemnitz (Saxony): Everybody who is
politically on the right is a Nazi. And since obviously one half of
the population is right of the middle and the other half left of it,
50% of all Germans are by public definition Neo-Nazis. (Click on
document to enlarge)

In practical terms, however, the situation is quite different in
Europe. As a matter of fact, the answer must be "yes;" Holocaust
Revision is indeed illegal in many countries in Europe. Since the
middle of the 1980s, and particularly since 1995, Holocaust
Revisionists have been punished with large fines and prison terms for
no other reason than disputing the official version of the Holocaust,
both orally and in literature. The courts and the media join forces to
slander nonconforming critics and scientists as "Auschwitz Deniers" or
"Holocaust Deniers." (reference to come: Human Rights Section in The
Revisionist)

Let us examine Germany as the most powerful persecuting nation. The
basis for official repression in Germany is Paragraph 130 of the
German Penal Code, which flagrantly violates both the United Nations
Declaration of Human Rights and Article V of the German Constitution.
Under Article 3 of Paragraph 130, denial of National Socialist mass
murder is punishable with up to five years imprisonment and "denying"
is defined as "insinuating untruth in view of better knowledge." The
Penal Code thus implies that everyone is convinced of the truth of the
official concept of history; and so anyone who might express doubts or
a contrary opinion, is intentionally lying with criminal intent, or
that s/he is insane. It is also a punishable offense to present
scientific evidence before the Court which would cast doubt on the
official version of Holocaust. O brave new world that hath such laws
in it!

It is not Holocaust Revisionism which is unlawful, it is the procedure
of the German courts. Unfortunately, the courts have the power. The
same situation prevails in Austria and Switzerland. In France, things
aren't quite as bad, since so far, no unsuspended prison term was ever
handed down.

For over ten years now, the German government has been busily burning
books again, primarily revisionist books. In addition, around ten to
fifteen thousand Germans are being prosecuted for thought crimes each
and every year! Please refer to the survey article on censorship in
Germany.

The document reproduced and translated in the box to the right
illustrates, just how serious the situation has become: German
officialdom and media classify everything which is to the right of the
political middle, including simple old fashioned conservatives and
patriots, without differentiation, as "right wing," "right wing
radical," "right wing extremist" and "neo-Nazi"; and no
differentiation has been made in a long time. One is tempted to
support the repression of Neonazis, who are depicted in the media as
brutal and disgusting. However, you must consider this: whoever
blithely agrees that Neonazis should be prosecuted solely on account
of their deviant opinion, should not complain if he is slandered as
Neonazi and persecuted because a neighbor denounces him for waving a
national banner or singing the national anthem. Because that is
exactly what is happening in Germany: Those who express plain normal
patriotic feelings, as it is quite common and considered normal in the
U.S., are considered to be Neonazis in Germany--so far to the left has
the political spectrum drifted there.

Everybody has the duty to
protest the persecution of unconventional thinkers. This is true not
only if persecution comes from a dictatorship, but also if it emanates
from a constitutio  [ending cut off]
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--
"These Holocaust deniers are very slick people.
They justify everything they say with facts and figures."

Steven Some, Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust
Education
Newark Star-Ledger of 23 Oct. 1996 (p 15)

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