A German court has sentenced Ernst Zundel to imprisonment for five years after finding him guilty on 14-charges of incitement. The holocaust-denier was deported from Canada in 2005.
Zundel's trial, which began last November, has been described as "raucous." At least some of his team of five lawyers apparently shared his views and, according to the Toronto Star, tried to turn the trial into a soapbox:
"The initial attempt to try him collapsed last March over a dispute with one of his lawyers, Sylvia Stolz.
"At one stage she had to be carried from the courtroom, screaming 'Resistance! The German people are rising up,' after defying an order banning her from the trial on grounds she tried to sabotage the proceedings by denouncing the court as a “tool of foreign domination.”
"In the current trial, defence lawyer Ludwig Bock quoted from Adolf Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf' and from Nazi race laws in his closing statements last week as argued for Zundel’s acquittal.
Bock accused the Mannheim state court of not wanting to face a 'scientific analysis' of the Holocaust and alleged that prosecutors — one of whom has termed Zundel a “rat catcher” — had defamed his client.
"Another of Zundel’s five lawyers, Herbert Schaller, told the court that all of its evidence that the Holocaust took place was based only on witness reports, instead of hard facts."
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