November 11, 2005
A US Supreme Court judge has cleared the way for the deportation of a German national sentenced to prison in his home country for Holocaust denial. Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected on Thursday a petition to block the deportation of Germar Rudolf, also known as Germar Scheerer. He is now likely to be brought to Germany on Monday. Rudolf, a chemistry graduate of Bonn University and a former student at Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, already has been convicted and sentenced, in June 1995, to 14 months in prison by the district court in Stuttgart. The court then cited his "incitement of the people in conjunction with denigration of the memory of the dead, libel and incitement to racial hatred." The crucial evidence in the Stuttgart case was Rudolf's "Expert Report on the Formation and Detectability of Cyanide Compounds in the Gas Chambers' of Auschwitz." It concluded that "no mass gassings with hydrogen cyanide took place in the National Socialist concentration camp Auschwitz."
