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September 24, 2000

Germans protest screening of video

PASSAU, GERMANY —
Hundreds of protesters marched Sunday outside a meeting of a rightist-extremist political Party in southern Germany, after the city lost two court cases in trying to
STOP the group from screening a video featuring a British historian banned from the country.

About 2,600 demonstrators gathered in the southem town of Passau, displaying signs reading: Extreme-rightists Unwanted, as police said nearly 2,200 members of the
German People’s Union party met in a conference hall.

Passau officials initially sought to ban the party from showing a video featuring historian David Irving, who is banned from entering Gerinany, where denial of the Holocaust and incitement to racial hatred are illegal.

PASSAU
1984:
David
Irving
approaches the
stage, followed by DVU
chairman Dr Gerhard
Frey
. Marxist rioters have
tried for years to stop these
assemblies.

Source Information
Original Publication: 2000-09-26
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 3, 2026