Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel is to face trial in Germany for inciting racial hatred, a court in the southwestern city of Mannheim announced on Tuesday. The 66-year-old German citizen, who is considered to be one of the world's leading publishers of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi material, faces 14 counts of inciting racial hatred and is accused of systematically promoting revisionist theories about the Holocaust in his books. He was granted immigrant status in Canada in 1958, but was expelled in March this year after two years in custody in Toronto. Police in Germany arrested him immediately on arrival in Frankfurt and he was taken to prison in Mannheim. Zündel lived in Toronto for decades until moving to the United States in 2000; he was deported back to Canada by US officials in February 2003.
A Canadian federal judge ruled in March that "Mr. Zündel's activities are not only a threat to Canada's national security but also a threat to the international community of nations."
