ThoughtCrime: 11/09/95
Deckert Arrested for Suspicion of Book Authorship
Guenter Deckert who has recently been convicted for racism was placed under
arrest on Thursday on fresh allegations of inciting racial hatred and denying
the orthodox Holocaust story.
Deckert, the former leader of the right-wing National Democratic Party,
was detained as he arrived at Frankfurt airport from the Spanish island
of Tenerife on Wednesday night.
Gunther Deckert
Prosecutors said that Deckert was apprehended in connection with the
publication of a book entitled The Guenter Deckert Case. Police
searched Deckert's home in August and confiscated documents and advertising
material related to the book, parts of which they believe Deckert penned
himself. Police also believe that Deckert was responsible for the distribution
of his book.
Deckert's original conviction was the result of a lecture he organised
in 1991 in which he and Fred
Leuchter, an American expert on the design and fabrication of homicidal
gas chambers, denied that the Nazis had killed millions of Jews in concentration
camps in World War Two.
The judge sentencing Deckert said he had shown no regrets after his
conviction and had made it clear that he would not be silenced. He was sentenced
to two years' imprisonment in April 1995, after the Federal Court of Justice
overturned a more lenient sentence and ordered a new one.
Deckert's conviction was enforced in law only on October 27, 1995 when
the court rejected an appeal, and he was to start his sentence within a
month.
Adapted from Reuters Nov. 11, 1995
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