As most readers know, the Holocaust revisionist Ernst Zündel was sentenced to five years jail by a German court – after being kidnapped, from America to Canada, held for two years without charge in a Canadian prison (under anti-terrorist legislation) and then deported to Germany, where he was charged with multiple counts of Holocaust denial. It is unknown, at this point, if the court will take into account time served. Predictably, the German media were hostile to Zündel and his defence team, but worried if the severity of the sentence – and the fact that freedom of speech on the Holocaust is illegal in Germany and around 30 states in Europe – would turn the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Zündel into a martyr.
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