| German deported from the United States convicted of Holocaust denial |
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The Associated Press: March 15, 2007 BERLIN: A 42-year-old German deported from the United States was convicted Thursday of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. A state court in Mannheim found Germar Rudolf guilty of breaking laws against denying the Holocaust by publishing a study claiming to prove that the Nazis did not gas Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He also distributed his theories over the Internet, the court found. "He represented the Holocaust as invention," prosecutor Andreas Grossmann said. Rudolf was convicted in 1995 of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 14 months in prison, but then disappeared. He applied for political asylum in the United States in 2000, but was rejected and was deported in 2005 to serve the 1995 sentence. He was arrested when he appeared at an immigration office in Chicago to apply for a green card based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen. He was charged again in April, 2006, with "systematically" denying or playing down the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews in documents and on the Internet, and of stirring anti-Semitic hatred. |
 Germar Rudolf, PhD, Chemist |
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