"No Criminal Record in
Germany" December 9, 1996
ON
SEPTEMBER 2, 1990, David Irving delivered a lecture on war
history to a large middle-class German audience in Weinheim,
south-western Germany. The meeting was chaired by
schoolteacher and politician Günter Deckert, a local
councillor and national chief of the (legal) German NPD
party. Police officials were, as has become customary in
modern democratic Germany, present throughout and took
notes. For
six years, that was that. When the persecution of Messrs.
Irving and Deckert began, these ancient lectures were
exhumed from the police archives, and prosecutions were
initiated. The court in Weinheim routinely applied to the
Central Criminal Records Office in Berlin for David Irving's
criminal record, and were chagrined to receive the
certificate reproduced in facsimile here: it formally
certifies:
Keine Eintragung
-- no entry. This
has not prevented Australian prime minister John Howard and
his minister Philipp Ruddock from broadcasting to the world
that David Irving has a "criminal record" in Germany, as the
ground for preventing his entry to Australia. This
Website's conclusion: the German government recognises that
the so-called "offence" was purely political, not
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