German deported from US convicted of Holocaust denial
State court in Mannheim sentences Germar Rudolf to two and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of breaking laws by publishing study claiming to prove Nazis did not gas Jews at Auschwitz concentration camp
A state court in Mannheim found Germar Rudolf guilty of breaking laws against denying the Holocaust by publishing a study claiming to prove that the Nazis did not gas Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He also distributed his theories over the Internet, the court found.
"He represented the Holocaust as invention," prosecutor Andreas Grossmann said.
Rudolf was convicted in 1995 of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 14 months in prison, but then disappeared. He applied for political asylum in the United States in 2000, but was rejected and was deported in 2005 to serve the 1995 sentence.
He was arrested when he appeared at an immigration office in Chicago to apply for a green card based on his marriage to a US citizen.
He was charged again in April, 2006, with "systematically" denying or playing down the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews in documents and on the Internet, and of stirring anti-Semitic hatred.
