*** Ernst Zundel goes on trial ***

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

A Report from the Revisionist Trenches


I received informal word that that Ernst Zundel's trial was going to 
be nixed because his attorneys were going to be co-charged.  That 
seems to have been a false flare. 


Apparently the Zundelsite is being sabotaged again, to no one's big 
surprise.  Very little mail is coming through. 


I don't know who translated the press release below - it reads a bit 
odd, but it's the best that I can send directly from Mannheim.


At any rate, here is the gist, as taken from David Irving's website:


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Press Release: Zündel goes on Trial

Sixth Criminal Court
Grand Criminal Court
6 KLs 503 Js 4/96

In case against Ernst Z [Zündel] both April 1939.


Defense counsel: Jürgen Rieger, Hamburg lawyer Sylvia Stolz.


Trial opening: Tuesday November 8, 2005, 9 a.m. Continuations on 9th, 
15th, 16th and 24th November, 9 a.m. each day.


THE accused is charged, together with his wife Dr Ingrid R [Rimland] 
who is being prosecuted [verfolgt: persecuted] separately with having 
as the most active, i.e. the leading, so-called "revisionist" from 
Toronto, Canada and Pigeon Forge, USA, spread Nazi and anti-Semitic 
propaganda most recently in February 2003, via the Internet Homepage 
[sic] Zündelsite for which he is responsible and in written 
publications, in particular in the Germanic Circulars written and 
mailed by him, worldwide, and in Germany too.


He is alleged to have intended to relieve National Socialism of the 
stigma of the murder of the Jews, in his messages and writings, in 
pseudo-scientific manner, frequently also via hyperlinks in the 
Internet, as well as denying the fate of the extermination of the 
Jews that was planned by the National Socialist potentates and to 
have argued to this end that the mass destruction in Auschwitz, 
Treblinka, etc., is an invention of the Jews and serves to oppress 
and blackmail the German People.


Over about twenty pages of the indictment are reproduced individual 
passages from the "Zündelsite" from 2003, from the accused's 
manuscript, "His Struggle for Germany," published in 1999, and from 
the "Germania Circulars" from 2000 to 2003, which among others read 
as follows:



 "Nobody denies the existence of the concentration camps. They were 
detention centers with not nearly as many inmates as is generally 
claimed. They were not extermination camps. ... It is a sad truth 
that tens of thousands of people of various nationalities died in the 
German camps, primarily through diseases. ..."





 "The so-called four million [killed in Auschwitz], revised to 1.5 
millions, have shriveled to 74,000 proven deaths... Something over 
30,000 Jews died at Auschwitz... primarily through illnesses and 
overcrowding."





 "Or is it not more a matter of continuing to hold the Germans 
enslaved in ceaseless mental, political and economic and financial 
bondage? To soften them up for ever newer, scarcely concealed 
blackmail attempts, that have already extracted over 100 billion 
marks for the Holocaust lobbyists and the members of their race. ... 
The abuse of Germany and the Germans must cease."





 "One vital point which most people don't know that that the idea, 
the concept and even the planning for the Nuremberg Trials have come 
from purely Jewish brains."





 "The Second World War was forced upon Germany! Hitler wanted no 
war, he needed peace for his social construction program."



The Holocaust is termed a monster lie, and "although he was a racist 
and enemy of the Jews, Hitler never ordered or tolerated that anybody 
was killed because of his race of religion."


Testimonies about gas chambers and gas trucks, "which in reality 
never existed," are stated to have been obtained by "coerced 
confessions". Israel is described as a "Zionist state of bandits and 
murderers", in which "we are confronted with ideas thousands of years 
old and the secrets of occultist, demoniacal people who regarded the 
Antichrist as their Messiah." The Holocaust had been "formally run up 
out of nothing thanks to a devilishly cunning propaganda," Israel had 
become the "sanctuary of a fiendish global gangster people, a 
harebrained creation, an abortion born of religious fanatics."


Finally, the indictment quotes from a Germania circular dated January 
2003 as follows:



 "While we fought so tenaciously for the truth about the Holocaust, 
we naturally also want to restore Germany's honor and bequeath to our 
descendants an honorable, clean image of the fighting by the German 
armed forces and the SS.



 "Only under Hitler did people at government level, in Germany and 
later in the other European countries allied with Germany, tackle the 
global Jewish conspiracy head on."



The conclusion of the war in 1945 is described as a "Victory of the 
Jews over Germany," and as for Adolf Hitler we read:


"In this historic epoch, there will certainly never again in the 
foreseeable future be an internal liberation like that achieved by 
Adolf Hitler ... or another people's tribune ... In the final 
analysis, after all is said and done, we are fighting quite simply 
just for the survival of our own species, our own race, our own 
people."


ALTOGETHER the public prosecutor charges the accused in legal terms 
with violations of Sections §§ 130, 185, 189 of the German Penal 
Code. Pursuant to these, those who inter alia incite hatred against 
sections of the public in a manner conducive to causing a breach of 
the peace, will be punished, as will those who attack the human 
worthiness of sections of the public, insofar as he insults them, 
brings them into contempt with malice aforethought, or defames them. 
Further violations of the penal code are the public approval, denial, 
or minimizing of any action committed under the National Socialist 
regime, insofar as this is conducive to causing a breach of the peace.


The accused was expelled from Canada (right) in February 2005 as 
persona non grata, and has been held since March 1, 1945 [eight 
months: 33 weeks] in investigative custody. The accused is stated to 
have denied responsibility for the quotations contained in the 
indictment, in the course of the investigative proceedings and 
elsewhere. The defense raises doubts as to the constitutionality of § 
130 of the German Penal Code.


The investigations of the Mannheim Public Prosecutor began around 
1996. The responsibility of the Mannheim public prosecutor arises 
from the fact that the "Zundelsite" website can also be downloaded 
from the Internet in Mannheim; from which fact the applicability of 
the Mannheim District Court is also derived.


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