February 6, 2004German
lawyer denies Holocaust at incitement trial
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN A NOTORIOUS far-right attorney
called the Holocaust a lie and cursed the German
legal system Friday at the opening of his trial in
the Berlin State Court on charges of incitement.
 David
Irving comments: THIS is the
manner in which the conformist German
historians protect their famous
"consensus". Those who are rightly
skeptical about any aspect of the legends
of World War II are imprisoned or
subjected to ruinous fines.
Conclusion: their
consensus isn't worth the toilet paper it
is written on. As Auberon Waugh
once famously asked in The Daily Telegraph
(before it fell into the hands of
Conrad Black), What kind of
historical fact is it that has to be
protected by draconian measures such as
these?
Historical Truth should
be masculine enough to stand on its own
two feet -- not crawl and cringe behind
its "bodyguard of lies."  |
Horst Mahler, a former leader of the
far-right National Democratic Party, and two other
men are charged with circulating anti-Semitic and
xenophobic pamphlets on the
internet in October 2000. Mahler is also charged with circulating other
pamphlets at the party headquarters in 2002 that
referred to anti-Semitism as "perfectly normal and
a sign of solid mental health." Addressing the court Friday, Mahler, 68, again
denied the Holocaust had happened. "It is a lie that we
systematically
murdered six million Jews," he said. Prosecutors warned the
defendant he faced further charges if he
continued with such statements, since Holocaust
denial is illegal in Germany. The internet pamphlet, titled "Call to
Resistance by the Decent", urged the government to
revoke foreigners' right to live or work in
Germany. If found guilty the three men face up to three
years in prison, or a fine. Mahler has appeared in court frequently over the
past years for his beliefs. Last year a Mainz court
found Mahler guilty of condoning a crime for saying
the September 11
[2001] attacks
were justified and fined him several thousand
euros. 
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