Ernst Zündel
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Zündel in 1992
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Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel April 24, 1939 Wildbad, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Janick Larouche (1959–1975) Irene Margarelli (1996–1997) Ingrid Rimland (2001–present) |
| Children | Pierre Zündel, Hans Zündel |
| Website | www |
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (born April 24, 1939) is a German publisher known for promoting Holocaust denial. He has been jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, of overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred". He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000.
In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers, which issued such neo-Nazi pamphlets as his co-authored "The Hitler We Loved and Why" and Richard Verrall's "Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth At Last", which were both significant documents of the Holocaust denial movement. Verrall's pamphlet should not be confused with Barbara Kulaszka's book Did Six Million Really Die? Report on the Evidence in the Canadian "False News" Trial of Ernst Zündel, 1988.
On February 5, 2003, Ernst Zündel was detained by local police in the U.S. and deported to Canada, where he was detained for two years on a Security Certificate for being a foreign national considered a threat to national security pending a court decision on the validity of the certificate. Once the certificate was upheld, he was deported to Germany and tried in the state court of Mannheim on outstanding charges of incitement of Holocaust denial dating from the early 1990s. On February 15, 2007, he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum term of five years in prison. All these imprisonments and prosecutions were for inciting hatred against an identifiable group. He was released on March 1, 2010.
Zündel was born in Bad Wildbad in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He emigrated to Canada in 1958 when he was 19, to avoid conscription by the German military. In 1960 he married French-Canadian Janick Larouche, with whom he had sons Pierre and Hans. During the 1960s, Zündel came under the tutelage of Canadian fascist politician Adrien Arcand.
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