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A man who refuses to believe in things that did not happen - Ernst Zundel - a brief biography

- born 1939 Bad Wildbad, Germany
- emigrated to Canada 1958

Zundel is probably best known for his central role in the “Holocaust Trials” of 1985 and 1988. He was brought to court in Toronto on a charge of “publishing false news,” and specifically for publishing a reprint edition of a booklet entitled Did Six Million Really Die?

The two lengthy trials — the 1985 trial lasted two months, and the 1988 trial lasted four months — have been the closest thing anywhere to full scale debates on the Holocaust issue. For the first time ever, “Holocaust survivors” and Holocaust historians were closely and critically questioned under oath about their claims and views. As a result of these trials, an enormous quantity of compelling evidence refuting the Holocaust extermination story was presented to the court and thereby was made part of the permanent public record.

Perhaps the most important of this evidence was the historic testimony of American gas chamber expert Fred Leuchter about his on-site forensic examination of the alleged extermination gas chambers in Poland. Upon returning to the United States, he published a lengthy report which concluded that the facilities he examined "could not have then been...utilized or seriously considered to function as execution gas chambers."

Professor Robert Faurisson, the leading French revisionist historian, wrote of Leuchter's meticulous testimony: "I am convinced that during those two days I was an eyewitness to the death of the gas chamber myth."

Major prosecution "gassings eyewitness" was forced to admit that he had never witnessed anyone gassed.

As a result of these trials, the Auschwitz authorities were forced to re-evaluate

This is the plaque at Auschwitz before it was replaced, and after

So, at the very least, the "official" gassing number should have been reduced from 6,000,000 to 3,000,000. These facts have been suppressed by the mainstream media for the last twenty years.

Feb 2001: Ernst Zundel emigrates from Canada to the United States

Feb 5, 2003 Ernst Zundel arrested, allegedly on an immigration violations matter. Held in Blount County jail, Tennesee US

Feb 19 2003: Deported back to Canada where he is held in solitary confinement for 2 years without charge.

Mar 2005: Secret Proceedings under a national security certificate result in Zundel being deported to Federal Republic of Germany and held at Mannheim Prison

Nov 8 2006: Trial begins Regional Court Mannhein

Ernst Zundel with Horst Mahler

Zundel is represented legally by Sylvia Stolz, Jürgen Rieger, Dr. Herbert Schaller (Austria) and Horst Mahler, possibly the most experienced and highly qualified team of lawyers for dealing with Holocaust persecution and nationalism.

The charges:

THE accused is charged, together with his wife Dr Ingrid R [Rimland] who is being prosecuted 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:

º "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. ..."

º "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."

º "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."

º "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."... 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.

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