Zundel hearings are drawing to a close

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

-- 



Interim report about the Zundel hearings:

Ernst has told me repeatedly to brace myself for a truly shocking 
verdict.  In one of his recent letters he wrote that "...even if I 
walked on water, the outcome would still be the same."

We'll see. I am leafing through some of his recent letters, and in 
one of them, dated Jan. 29, 07 he writes, right up front:

"Es geht aufwärts/Things are looking up! That may seem like gallow's 
humour in my situation - a day or two away from being convicted to a 
prison term worse than violent rapists, dope pushers, and child 
molesters are given.  Ingrid, rest assured - the outcry caused by the 
severity of the sentence will reverberate around the world and keep 
this case and the issues NOT dealt with squarely on the table.  These 
people do not understand the dynamics at work.  They are, like so 
many Germans, still victims of their induced-by-indoctrination 
"Weltbild", all the while accusing me and [my attorneys] of the most 
vile intentions.  Sometimes I think I am in a time warp..."

There is more that I will report on in days and weeks to come - for 
now, let's just say that when Ernst wrote those words, he must have 
assumed that his prison sentence would run consecutively on the 14 
charges of Holocaust Denial heaved at him.  He has been threatened 
his sentence could be as long as 15 years!

Since then, we know that the prosecutor must have had second thoughts 
about that kind of a sentence - he modestly asked for "only" five 
years!

My information about the last two hearing dates, February 2 and 9, 
have been verbal only and, hence, scant about what actually happened. 
I am summarizing here subjectively what I have so far been told.

The defense summations have now concluded.  They are described as 
"stunning" by partipants.  It is not Ernst Zundel who is on trial but 
the system - a judicial system corrupt to the core, laid bare in all 
of its venality for all the world to see!  Apparently some moments 
were so searing that Dr. Meinerzhagen got the screaming meemies and 
threatened he would charge the attorneys with Holocaust Denial!  It 
is a pity that we don't have written summaries of what was actually 
said - because the German system does not allow transcripts and also 
no recordings.

Dr. Schaller, 84 years old and health-wise very frail, spoke with the 
sharpest precision.  He was in so much physical pain that he had to 
break off his presentation on February 2nd and finish it on the 9th. 
This venerable gentleman, an Austrian at that, threw his all into 
this struggle, and all of us who understand wht's really playing here 
are offering this exemplary Warrior for the Truth our highest 
admiration and respect.  I have been told he has been brutally 
insulted by the prosecution on more than one occasion.  Is there no 
longer in the German judiciary a feeling of civility due this brave 
man who rallies his last strength on earth to secure the freedom not 
only of Ernst Zundel but of the German people?

Dr. Bock, our other attorney, spoke briefly but also sharply to the 
point.  His summation was described with much enthusiasm by people in 
the courtroom as "extraordinary".

Lead attorney Jürgen Rieger took 6 hours for his summation argument. 
It, too, was described as "very, very good."  From what I have seen 
so far, the Zionist-controlled media, true to their modus operandi, 
smears him and the other defense attorneys with the usual derogatory 
epitephs and fabrications - below is a sample, for what it is worth:

[start]

Defense seeks acquittal of far-right activist Ernst Zundel at German 
trial  /  The Associated Press / 9 Feb 2007

MANNHEIM, Germany: Defense lawyers on Friday urged a German court to 
acquit Ernst Zundel, a far-right activist who was deported from 
Canada, of incitement charges stemming from persistent denial of the 
Holocaust.

The defense team called for Zundel's acquittal during a court session 
in which one lawyer, Ludwig Bock, quoted from Adolf Hitler's "Mein 
Kampf" and from Nazi race laws. [My comment:  I think this is an out 
and out lie - or at the very least, taken out of context!  I was not 
told this happened!]

Bock accused the state court in Mannheim of not wanting to face a 
"scientific analysis" of the Holocaust and charged that prosecutors - 
one of whom has termed Zundel a "rat catcher" - had defamed his 
client.

Prosecutors accuse Zundel, a 66-year-old German deported from Canada 
in 2005, of years of anti-Semitic activities, including denying the 
Holocaust - a crime in Germany - in documents and on the Internet.

They have urged the court to convict Zundel of 14 counts of 
incitement and sentence him to five years in prison.

Prosecutor Andreas Grossmann has labeled Zundel a "political con man" 
from whom the German people must be protected.

Since Zundel's deportation, he and his supporters have argued that he 
is a peaceful campaigner denied his right to free speech.

A verdict in the trial is likely next Thursday.

[end]