A Zundel letter on the eve of the Great Holocaust Trial # 3

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Fri Nov 4 17:08:53 EST 2005









A Zundel letter to his wife, ethnic novelist Ingrid Rimland, on the 
eve of the Third Great Holocaust Trial starting on Tuesday, November 
8, in Mannheim - this time on European soil:

[START]

Meine liebe Ingrid -

This is the first benefit derived on 17 October 2005 from the 
Oberlandesgericht / Karlsruhe decision that you and I as a married 
couple can discuss our court cases and legal moves without having our 
letters withheld or confiscated by the censors.  The court 
specifically states that you can quote things, like comments from 
supporters or coverage in the media - excerpts of news that you deem 
are important to me.

Please note, however:  That does not mean that various levels of the 
German government bureaucracy will not read and use the content of 
our letters for their purposes.  Should our mail still be interfered 
with because of what we say to each other, I will instruct [attorney] 
Rieger to go to the Bundesverfassungsgericht and, after that, to the 
European Court of Human Rights in Straßburg. 

The battle is on - even the Zundels have rights!

So, my brave wife, we are making history together!  That's nice!

This judgment is important for other imprisoned idealists / human 
rights activists - people who struggle for their human and civil 
rights in Germany and beyond!  So, Ingrid, it looks like your husband 
is back at home!  And as I promised you, and predicted from prison in 
Toronto, the content of the struggle has not changed - only the 
geographical location has expanded to the European front, for we will 
continue our actions in Canada and America. 

I take no pleasure in having to embarrass the German judiciary, but a 
civil rights struggle in German was long overdue.  As you know, I 
prepared myself mentally and emotionally for exactly this scenario 
for years.  I denied myself many earthly pleasures for [decades] 
because I did not want to be controlled by vices, cravings, desires, 
because those human weaknesses are the most dangerous.  They make 
people subject to threats, manipulation, and intimidation by police, 
interrogators, and courts.

I remember the utter frustration of Canada's most famous criminal 
lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, when he tried to intervene on my behalf for 
the Canadian Liberties Association in 1986-87.  As you know, these 
mainly Leftists, Marxists, and Zionists had criticized and 
bad-mouthed me in the media for years.  I explained to the Chief 
Justice that they were late-comers and opportunists in the Human 
Rights struggle and that they only came for the publicity because 
they knew I had a good chance and would most likely win my appeal.

In utter frustration, Greenspan blurted out while I stood three feet 
away from him in Ontario Superior Court and could see the rivulets of 
sweat dripping down from his hair into his shirt collar: 

"Chief Justice, we are at a loss as to what to do with Zundel!  He is 
not embarrassed by vilification in the media!  Bad press does not 
seem to trouble him!  Jail and prison do not scare him, seemingly! 
He does not care what society thinks of him!  What else does one do 
to such an individual?" 

[Ingrid's comment:  Kidnap him, maybe?]

Ingrid, that was long before we met!  It's in my old newsletters 
where I devoted a few pages to it.  You would have been proud!  It 
was Pure Ernst Zundel Unbowed!

Chief Justice Howland seemed to enjoy this "odd couple" before him - 
the famous Jewish lawyer and the infamous German Human Rights 
advocate for his German people - and guess what?  He ruled for me, 
and against them!  The rest is history!

As you know, we won that important appeal - mit Pauken und Trompeten 
[with drums and trumpets] and a 134 page judgement in our favor, 
devastating in his critique of Judge Locke and his courtroom conduct. 
The government appealed it to the Supreme Court of Canada, and I gave 
that famous interview on the 6th (?) of June 1987, in which I reached 
out to the Jewish community and suggested we call a symposium on the 
Holocaust issues in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens Sports Arena.  I 
offered to pay half the fee and pay for my experts -  historians, eye 
witnesses etc.  I offered three well-known Jewish personalities to 
chair this historic event.  They turned me down.  [One of them said]: 
"Ernst, this is too hot a potato for me to handle!"

I prophesied to the assembled media people on that historic day that 
I would send a team to Auschwitz to make investigations and take 
samples.  Ingrid, I did not know then that Fred Leuchter existed, but 
the idea was there.

I told them I would fight "the mother of all trials" if they 
re-charged me, and finish that topic once and for all!  In their 
hatred and power-drunkenness, they were blind - and walked into not 
only "the mother of all trials" but a 20-year battle of attrition, 
which is still going on! 

And I am afraid, Ingrid, that my detractors here are as blind to the 
historical mine field they are entering.  History is repeating 
itself!  They are blinded by the tactical victories inside the court 
rooms where they control the outcome.  For an ordinary accused, that 
set-up is disastrous.  For us idealists, it's a mere inconvenience to 
be endured. 

It's the Greenspan scenario all over again!

[END]

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