ThoughtCrime: 04/08/86
Police Raid Judge's Home
Police raided the home of retired judge Wilhelm Stäglich on April 8th.
Police were apparently looking for a German-language edition of a videotape
featuring Professor Robert Faurisson
entitled, The Problem of the Gas Chambers. Police were
unable to find a copy of the prohibited videotape.
Judge Stäglich is a member of the editorial advisory committee of the
Journal of Historical Review, a leading American Revisionist Journal. He
is best known as the author of Der Auschwitz Mythos (The Auschwitz
Myth), (published in English as: Auschwitz: A Judge Looks at the Evidence.
This volume which first appeared in West Germany in 1979 is cited
as the main impetus for increased censorship of books in Germany.
In Germany offending books are "indexed" as "harmful to youth," thereby
severely restricting their advertising and distribution. Stäglich's book
was later seized as the result of further legal action. Stäglich himself
was stripped of his doctoral degree which he had earned at the University
of Göttingen in 1951.
Police confiscated various research materials including crematory plans
which were obtained from the Auschwitz Museum. It is reported that Faurisson
had given these plans to Judge Stäglich in 1976. They are displayed in the
video The Problem of the Gas Chambers.
Adapted from IHR Newsletter #39, May 1986 - Institute for Historical Review,
PO Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
George Orwell
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