February 09, 2006
The trial of the notorious revisionist historian, Ernst Zuendel, has resumed in Germany. The trial has been suspended in November 2005 after the court ordered the replacement of his lawyer, who was being advised by Horst Mahler, a leading ideologue of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). Mahler has praised the September 2001 attacks on the United States and has accused Jews of seeking "world domination".
Zuendel, who is seen as one of the main purveyors of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi material in the world and has described Adolf Hitler as a 'man of peace'. He left Germany for Canada at the age of 19 but was deported in March 2005 on a German arrest warrant. Besides inciting racial hatred, he is also accused of systematically promoting revisionist theories about the Holocaust in his books. Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany and if convicted, Zuendel faces up to five years in jail.