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Subject : *** Bulletin: Ernst Zundel taken in a "special plane" to Germany!
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Word has just reached me that Ernst Zundel was taken in a special, chartered
(?) plane to Germany, where he reportedly landed at 10 p.m., German time,
in Frankfurt.

There, he will be arrested for "Holocaust Denial" allegedly found on the
Zundelsite - and taken to the Mannheim Prison.

So, once again, this is a "cyber war" involving an American website? Blue
Ribbons to the fore!

That is all the information I have for now.

I am relieved to know Ernst is in Germany. When I learned that he had left
Toronto in a "special plane," in a violent snow storm at that, my heart just
about stopped.

I will report as soon as I know more.

Ingrid Zundel >>

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Canada deports Holocaust denier.
Ernst Zundel charged with hate crimes on arrival in Germany.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- A German judge ordered white supremacist Ernst Zundel held in jail after arraigning him Wednesday on charges of denying the Holocaust and inciting hatred.

Zundel, who was deported from Canada on Tuesday, made no statement at the closed arraignment in the southwestern city of Mannheim, court spokesman Ulrich Krehbiel said.

German prosecutors accuse Zundel of decades of anti-Semitic activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust -- a crime in Germany.

Prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant for him in 2003. Because Zundel's Holocaust-denying Web site is available in Germany, he is considered to be spreading his message to Germans.

Canadian authorities deported Zundel, 65, after a federal judge ruled that his activities were a threat to national and international security.

Born in Germany in 1939, Zundel emigrated to Canada in 1958 and lived in Toronto and Montreal until 2001. Canadian officials rejected his attempts to obtain citizenship in 1966 and 1994. He moved to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., until he was deported to Canada in 2003 for alleged immigration violations.

Zundel has operated Samisdat Publishing, a leading distributor of Nazi propaganda, since the 1970s. Over the past decade, he has been a key content provider for a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.

Canadian authorities had held him in solitary confinement since 2003 while determining whether they had grounds to deport him.

Zundel has claimed he is a peaceful man with no criminal record against him in Canada.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based Jewish human rights group, said Tuesday that Zundel's likely trial would help to educate younger generations in Europe who are increasingly unaware of the horrors of the Holocaust.

"Let's give him another 15 minutes of fame, if the trial can expose how Holocaust denial comes about," said Cooper. "To cast the light of history and truth, and to be done so in a German court, is very important".

dal sito: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/eu....ap/index.html