Ernst Zundel
Ernst Zündel (born April 24, 1939) is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer.
Zündel emigrated to Canada from Germany when he was 19 in order to avoid being drafted by the German military. During the 1960s he came under the tutelage of Canadian fascist Adrian Arcand.
In the 1970s and 1980s Zündel operated a small-press publishing house called Samisdat Publishing which issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood aka Richard Verrall (a British neo-Nazi leader) as well as booklets claiming that UFOs were actually Nazi secret weapons operated from secret Nazi military bases in Antarctica.
In 1985 he was criminally charged for "disseminating and publishing material denying the Holocaust." Zündel's trial was notable for its reliance on testimony from individuals such as David Irving and Fred A. Leuchter, a self-styled expert in gas chambers whose testimony was dismissed due to his lack of any engineering credentials. Zündel was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by an Ontario court but in 1991 his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada when the law he had been charged under, reporting false news, was ruled unconstitutional.
In the late 1990s he was under investigation by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for promoting hatred against Jews via his website when he left Canada for Tennessee vowing never to return.
In 2003, Zündel was arrested in the United States for violating that country's immigration rules. He was deported to Canada despite the fact that he is a German citizen and his permanent residency status in Canada had expired due to his prolonged absence from the country.
Zündel remains in detention in Canada as a security threat due to his alleged links with violent neo-Nazi groups. He is resisting deportation to Germany where he is wanted for hate crimes and is seeking refugee status in Canada.
Quotes by Ernst Zündel:
- I have always seen blunders in my life not as stumbling blocks, but as stepping stones.
- The Jews of the world have a Holocaust coming.
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1985 in Canada | Adrian Arcand
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