ThoughtCrime: 03/27/95
German Publisher Raided
In a March 27 raid of the Grabert publishing firm in Tuebingen,
Germany, criminal police seized all available copies of a new book of Holocaust
revisionist scholarship. The banned work is a 400-page large-format anthology
entitled Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte:
Ein Handbuch ueber strittige Fragen des 20. Jahrhunderts
(Foundations of Contemporary History: A handbook on controversial
questions of the twentieth century). It contains 17 carefully researched essays by leading revisionist
scholars in Europe and North America, including John Ball, Friedrich Berg,
Robert Faurisson, Carlo
Mattogno, Germar Rudolf, Udo Walendy and Ingrid Weckert. Compiled by Ernst
Gauss, this volume, which analyzes the most important elements of the holocaust
story, was published late last year. Criminal indictments are likely against the publisher, Wigbert
Grabert, and at least one of the individual contributors. Police seized
the books on the basis of a court order, issued without a court hearing,
requested by the state prosecuting attorney's office in Tuebingen. More
than 30,000 copies of Grundlagen reportedly had already been
distributed before the March 27 raid. In its court order request, the prosecuting attorney's office
stated:
"The [book's] team of authors regards the systematic and planned killing
of people of Jewish faith, whih was carried out under National Socialist
rule as the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," from a revisionist
view, and comes to the conclusion that there was no deliberate annihilation
of the Jews."
The book is dangerous, the office claimed, because it "denies the National
Socialist genocide of the Jews during the Third Reich in a way that could
disturb the public peace," because it "injures the honor of Jews" in Germany
who had been persecuted during the Third Reich, and because it "denigrates
the memory of Jews" who lost their lives as a result of Third Reich policies,
"especially in concentration camps."
Adapted from: The Journal of Historical Review Vol. 15, Number 3 May/June
1995 P.O. Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659, USA. Subscriptions $40 per
year (domestic).
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George Orwell
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