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He has been a leading figure in the far right [[National Democratic Party of Germany]]. <ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/BNP_international_friends article</ref> |
He has been a leading figure in the far right [[National Democratic Party of Germany]]. <ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/BNP_international_friends article</ref> |
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He has served five years in prison in Germany for various offences, including translating the "Leuchter Report", which claimed that there were no gas chambers for exterminating people in the [[Third Reich]]. |
He has served five years in prison in Germany for various offences, including translating the "[[Leuchter Report]]", which claimed that there were no gas chambers for exterminating people in the [[Third Reich]].<ref>http://www.spearhead.com/0102-ib.html</ref><ref>http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/a/ftp.py?people/a/althans.bela.ewald/arm.092094 report from [[Nizkor]]</ref><ref>http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg1998/zg9806/980607.html article from the [[Zundel]] site</ref> |
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<ref>http://www.spearhead.com/0102-ib.html</ref><ref>http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/a/ftp.py?people/a/althans.bela.ewald/arm.092094 report from [[Nizkor]]</ref> |
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In November 1991, Deckert participated in a meeting featuring [[Fred A. Leuchter]], for which he was later charged and convicted of inciting racial hatred. Deckert said at the meeting that the Holocaust was a myth perpetrated by "a parasitical people who were using a historical lie to muzzle Germany". Deckert appealed the verdict of his conviction, and a sympatheic judicial panel reduced the sentence to one year suspended sentence, with one of the panel judges describing him as an "intelligent man of character for whom the claim was a matter of the heard" and other declaring that Deckert had "expressed legitimate interests" when he had questioned the political and financial demands continuing to be made by Jews upon Germany almost fifty years after [[World War II]]. These statements caused a public outcry, and the two judges were suspended (although were reinstated a few months later). Deckert's sentence was also modified a second time to two years in prison.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Beast Reawakens]]|author=[[Martin A. Lee]]|pages=494|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date=1999|isbn=0415925460|isbn13=9780415925464}}</ref> |
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<ref>http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg1998/zg9806/980607.html article from the [[Zundel]] site</ref> |
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In 2001 he spoke at a meeting of the [[British National Party]] in London.<ref>http://www.searchlightcymru.org.uk/index.php?page=BNP_the_truth Searchlight article</ref> |
In 2001 he spoke at a meeting of the [[British National Party]] in London.<ref>http://www.searchlightcymru.org.uk/index.php?page=BNP_the_truth Searchlight article</ref> |
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==References== |
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== Further reading == |
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* {{cite book|title=Error Iudicis: Juristische Wahrheit und justizieller Irrtum|editor=André Gouron|publisher=Vittorio Klostermann|date=1998|isbn=3465029895|isbn13=9783465029892|author=Ulrich Falk|chapter=Das Fehlurteil in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit|pages=108–113|language=German}} |
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Revision as of 17:26, 20 October 2008
Günter Deckert (born 9 January 1940 in Heidelberg) is a German political activist.
He has been a leading figure in the far right National Democratic Party of Germany. [1]
He has served five years in prison in Germany for various offences, including translating the "Leuchter Report", which claimed that there were no gas chambers for exterminating people in the Third Reich.[2][3][4]
In November 1991, Deckert participated in a meeting featuring Fred A. Leuchter, for which he was later charged and convicted of inciting racial hatred. Deckert said at the meeting that the Holocaust was a myth perpetrated by "a parasitical people who were using a historical lie to muzzle Germany". Deckert appealed the verdict of his conviction, and a sympatheic judicial panel reduced the sentence to one year suspended sentence, with one of the panel judges describing him as an "intelligent man of character for whom the claim was a matter of the heard" and other declaring that Deckert had "expressed legitimate interests" when he had questioned the political and financial demands continuing to be made by Jews upon Germany almost fifty years after World War II. These statements caused a public outcry, and the two judges were suspended (although were reinstated a few months later). Deckert's sentence was also modified a second time to two years in prison.[5]
In 2001 he spoke at a meeting of the British National Party in London.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/BNP_international_friends article
- ^ http://www.spearhead.com/0102-ib.html
- ^ http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/a/ftp.py?people/a/althans.bela.ewald/arm.092094 report from Nizkor
- ^ http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg1998/zg9806/980607.html article from the Zundel site
- ^ Martin A. Lee (1999). The Beast Reawakens. Taylor & Francis. p. 494. ISBN 0415925460.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|isbn13=ignored (help) - ^ http://www.searchlightcymru.org.uk/index.php?page=BNP_the_truth Searchlight article