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MH | 07Aug2017 |  Michael Hoffman, [2], [3], [4]
https://revisionistreview.blogspot.ca/2017/08/ernst-zundel-lover-not-hater.html

Ernst Zündel: A Lover, not a Hater

Ernst Zündel [1939.04.24 -- 2017.08.05] died of heart failure on August 5, 2017 at his ancestral home in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany, near Pforzheim, one day before the anniversary of the atomic holocaust in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. He was 78. He passed away seven years and five months after having served seven years in confinement in Canadian and German prisons for thought crimes committed as a publisher, broadcaster and protestor. To make the inquisition against this German human rights activist palatable to the public, his “crime” is monotonously described as “inciting hatred for years with anti-Semitic activities.”

In America the yahoos are stirred to outrage by the spectre of Islamic “Sharia law” coming to Mayberry, while they are oblivious to the Talmudic law and psychology which suffuses the U.S.A. Talmudic halacha is a two-tiered legal system: one law for the Holy People and another for everyone else. Thus it is written in Sanhedrin 57a, “Regarding bloodshed, the following distinction applies: if a non-Jew killed another non-Jew, or a non-Jew killed a Jew, the killer is liable for execution; if a Jew killed a non-Jew he is exempt from punishment.”

By the same logic, if a Judaic incites hatred of Germans it is not a crime, it is a well-deserved act of retribution. Zündel spent his life fighting this corrupt double-standard. He did so not for philosophical or ideological reasons. Rather, he believed that relentless anti-German hate propaganda was a kind of psychological warfare and mental genocide which internally colonized the souls of the German people, radically reducing their self-worth and causing them to engage in self-destructive and suicidal behavior.

His lifelong campaign to counter anti-German hatred and Talmudic bigotry has been transformed through the alchemy of media falsification into itself an act of hate, and it is at this omega point that Ernst’s persona has been frozen by the Establishment. “He was a hater!” That’s all we’re supposed to know, or need to know, about his life and work.

Having emigrated to Canada as a young man of 19, he became a sought-after graphic artist, working for national magazines. That he was a public relations genius is indisputable. In the 1960s he began placing advertisements in comic books, urging freedom for imprisoned Nazi leader Rudolf Hess, and for a volume about “Nazi UFOs,” the latter a publicity stunt intended to build the revisionist history mailing list he was gradually compiling. By the late 1970s, when the Newspeak distortion of the word “holocaust” began to be appropriated by the Zionist lobby and applied exclusively to the sufferings (both real and imagined) of Judaic people in World War II, Ernst began his counter-offensive, making contact with the academics and historians in the  burgeoning revisionist history movement that was questioning the “Holocaust” liturgy.

By 1983 his mass mailings had become so extensive that the powerful Zionist lobby in Canada persuaded the government to ban Zündel from using the mail. He was forced to publish from a Buffalo, New York-area post office, hundreds of miles from his base in Toronto. For publishing doubts about the existence of execution gassing facilities in concentration camps, he was indicted for distributing “false news.” He went to court in Toronto in January, 1985, in what would become known as “The Great Holocaust Trial,” having assembled a stellar legal and history research team led by Doug Christie, who was at that time an obscure, upstart attorney from British Columbia, and Dr. Robert Faurisson, a French academic with a vast command of World War II revisionist history.

Zündel’s own World War II-generation of Germans rallied around him. The large Victorian “Zündelhaus” in Toronto was filled with German people acting as defense witnesses in the trial and assistants in various capacities. There were also non-Germans across the spectrum, including Judaics such as the brilliant and eccentric Ditlieb Felderer, the inaugural forensic investigator and photographer of the Auschwitz-Birkenau slave labor camp.

Ernst was not a provincial German. He was cosmopolitan and sophisticated, with broad tastes and sympathies. He forged alliances with everyone from Judaics disgruntled with the Israeli state and Judaism, to the former Attorney General of Massachusetts who would call Ernst in the middle of the night during the 1985 trial and offer him legal advice.

In the course of the 1985 trial the Crown prosecution called many “unimpeachable Holocaust survivor eyewitnesses” to the stand, in order to send Zündel to prison. Under cross-examination, each one was reduced to a quivering pile of fantastic or contradictory testimony that was essentially worthless. Rudolf Vrba, one of the first “major witnesses” to the alleged homicidal gas chambers, who was regarded as a pillar of “Holocaust” survivor testimony, was made to concede under oath that his book, I Cannot Forgive, could not stand up in court and was only an “artistic picture” of Auschwitz. Because of the embarrassing revelations elicited from these witnesses, no “Holocaust survivors” were called to testify in defense of Deborah Lipstadt in the course of David Irving’s libel suit against her (a fact noted by the actor playing the part of her barrister Anthony Julius, in the 2016 Hollywood movie, “Denial”).

The most eminent “Holocaust” historian of the 1980s was Dr. Raul Hilberg. During the Great Holocaust Trial he was compelled to admit on the witness stand that there was no scientific evidence of homicidal gassings. “I’m at a loss” were the shocking words this “leading Holocaust scholar” uttered when asked by Christie to cite such evidence.

Ernst’s initial conviction on the ridiculous 1985 false news charge was overturned on appeal to the Ontario Court, citing presiding Judge Hugh Locke’s overwhelming bias toward the defendant.

Zündel was tried yet again in 1988; that trial is noteworthy for having produced engineer Fred Leuchter’s unprecedented Leutcher Report on the impossibility of mass chemical poison gassings in the facilities he personally studied and sampled in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ernst published many tens of thousands of copies of Leutcher Report for circulation world-wide.

On more than one occasion we have referred to Ernst as the-man-who-was-perpetually-on-trial. He underwent court appearances over the ban on his using the Canadian mails, his two trials, the appeals, his immigration case in the U.S. and his trial in Germany, which led to his lengthiest imprisonment. The word “martyr” is derived from a Greek word for a defendant in court. The connotation is of a man or woman willing to defy authorities formally, and face to face. This was Ernst’s destiny.

On August 27, 1992, in a historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, which was a landmark victory for every Canadian’s civil liberties, the “false news” portion of the Canadian criminal code was overturned thanks to the appeal argued by Ernst’s legal team.

There was a price to be paid for these successes, however. The Talmud is a book which has made a religion out of revenge. William Shakespeare had Portia finger it when she told Shylock in The Merchant of Venice that contrary to Shylock’s call for “justice,” the Christian posits mercy, because none of us can withstand God’s justice. The problem in making that type of argument is that the religion of revenge entails self-worship, and part of its megalomania rests upon giving God orders (cf. Bava Metzia 59b). Therefore, revenge, not mercy, is the order of the day for the Talmudists. Consequently, in 1989 Prof. Faurisson was horribly beaten by thugs linked to Betar, a French Zionist terror group. No one was prosecuted. On May 7, 1995 Ernst Zündel’s Victorian home and headquarters in Toronto was destroyed by arsonists. The police barely bothered to investigate. No one was prosecuted.

In February, 2003 Ernst was living peacefully in Tennessee with his German-American wife, Ingrid Rimland, when he was arrested for “violations of U.S. immigration regulations.” He was jailed for two weeks and subsequently deported to Canada, where he had “landed immigrant” status. Labeled a terrorist in a secret Canadian star chamber court, the man who had never even had a speeding ticket and consistently preached non-violence, was incarcerated for two years on a “Security certificate,” under abominable conditions of solitary confinement, while fed wretched food, observed 24 hours a day with lights never turned off, denied proper writing and reading materials, and confined in a remote, high security facility.

He was deported to Germany in 2005 where, a few weeks short of his 66th birthday he began serving five years in Mannheim prison for publishing questions about gas chambers in books and other media, including online on his internationally-renowned “Zundelsite” web page.

Upon his release in 2010 he lived quietly in a home in Germany that had been in his family for hundreds of years. Without complaint he cheerfully set to work personally clearing brush and trees and making repairs to the ancient homestead. He never whined. He had not been raised in a culture where, “Oh, how I suffered!” was a standard of self-definition. He didn’t moan about his fate. He was a German of the old school, for whom the words inculcated from youth, Lerne leiden ohne zu klagen (“Learn to suffer without complaining”), were ringing in his ears until the day he died.

Prior to 2017, Ernst applied for an immigrant visa so that he could reside with his wife in Tennessee. Last spring, less than a week before his 78th birthday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ruled on his application, as follows:

“[I]n 2007 the Applicant was convicted in Germany of 14 counts of incitement to hatred and one count of violating the memory of the dead. The Applicant was sentenced to an aggregate of five years in prison. And though a waiver of inadmissibility was possible -- because of extreme hardship to Zundel’s elderly wife -- the office concluded that there was good reason to deny the waiver: The negative factors in the Applicant’s case include his long history of inciting racial, ethnic, and religious hatred. The record shows that the Applicant is a historical revisionist and denier of the Holocaust, distributing writings, books, tapes, videos, and broadcasts to promote his views. The record indicates further that these publications agitated for aggressive behavior against Jews. Furthermore, the Applicant has been a leader in these activities for decades and has shown no regret or remorse for his actions.”

“...these publications agitated for aggressive behavior against Jews.” This is a terrible lie, backed by no documentation. We should not be surprised. We were forewarned 2,000 years ago about “children of hell” (Matthew 23:15) whose patriarch was “the father of lies” (John 8:44). If Jesus were alive today, he too would be serving time in Canadian and German dungeons and banned from the United States by Homeland Security.

If you are a German of Ernst’s generation then you have heard of, or read, Karl May, the novelist who celebrated the American Indian. In Canada Ernst hosted a parade of German combat veterans of World War II, from privates to officers. Having read the novels of Karl May, often among the first requests these men would make was, “Will you to take me to meet the Indians?” There are photos of these old soldiers shaking hands and riding horses with the indigenous people of Canada, with Zundel accompanying them.

The Indians of North America are reputed to ask a question before they make any momentous decision: how will this affect the next seven generations? The question the Indians would pose if they were Germans -- how will the admission of millions of hostile alien immigrants affect our children for the next seven generations? -- is left unasked by 21st century Germans, a majority of whom continue to support Angela Merkel, their posterity’s executioner, because she is good at managing the nation’s money.

Zündel was as much a holocaust survivor as anyone. In February, 1945 when he was not quite six-years-of-age, he heard the roar of the 367 bombers of Britain’s Royal Air Force, as its thundering fire bombs incinerated the German civilians of the nearby city of Pforzheim. He, his mother and siblings shook with fear, sheltering under a table during this holocaust, which we are not allowed to call by that name.

Every day it seems there is something else we are not allowed to say or think, and this is what we should expect ever more of, in a world of illusion that calls Ernst Zündel, “a hater.” He has been made a scapegoat by people who are themselves guilty of undying hatred.

We have known few men who have loved our people and our civilization more than he did. It is not an exaggeration to say that he gave his life for love of them.

Copyright©2017 Independent History and Research

Michael Hoffman is the author of The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic [published in French in 2016 as Le Grand Procés de L’Holocauste: L’Extraordinaire Aventure d’Ernst Zündel].

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Global News | 07Aug2017 | Canadian Press
http://globalnews.ca/news/3653186/ernst-zundel-dead/

Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, deported from Canada in 2005, dies aged 78

BERLIN -- Ernst Zundel, a “patriarch” of the white supremacist movement who served jail time in Germany for Holocaust denial after being deported from Canada, has died.

Zundel’s wife, Ingrid Zundel, said her husband died Saturday at his home in Black Forest Germany, where he was born.

German officials later confirmed his death.

Zundel, who was 78, was extradited from Canada to Germany in 2005 after earlier being deported from the United States for alleged immigration violations.

A Canadian judge ruled that Zundel’s activities were a threat to national security as well as “the international community of nations,” clearing the way for his deportation to Germany later that year.

He was jailed the day he arrived in Germany, and was later convicted on 14 counts of inciting hatred for years of anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a website devoted to denying the Holocaust -- a crime in that country. He was served with the maximum sentence -- five years behind bars, with credit for time served.

He was released from prison in 2010.

Ingrid [Rimland] Zundel said she believed her husband died from a heart attack, but said she wasn’t sure of many of the details. She said his sister had found him unconscious and called for an ambulance.

“I spoke to Ernst just hours before, and he was optimistic and upbeat as ever. There was no indication that anything was wrong,” Zundel wrote in the email.

Zundel had lived in both Toronto and Montreal for years after emigrating in 1958. He was rejected twice for Canadian citizenship and moved to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., but was sent back to Canada in 2003.

He came to public attention in the 1980s with several publications including “The Hitler We Loved.”

Two attempts at prosecution in Canada ultimately foundered when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country’s laws against spreading false news as a violation of free speech.

The trials catapulted the permanent resident into the public spotlight and Zundel became a familiar figure with his retinue of followers in Toronto.

Zundel continued publishing his beliefs online, on a website that remained up at the time of his death.

He and his supporters had argued he was exercising his right to free speech. He was the subject of numerous threats and his home was once firebombed.

Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais in 2005 found Zundel to be a hatemonger who posed a threat to national security because of his close association with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that resorted to violence to press their causes.

[W.Z. See links below for articles archived on this website that are critical of Mr. Pierre Blais.]

A national security certificate released by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service in 2003 said Zundel was then “considered one of the most notorious distributors of hate material in the world,” and referred to him as a patriarch of the white supremacist movement in Canada.

“Zundel was an unrepentant anti-Semite and defender of the evil Nazi regime, denying the Holocaust while at the same time fomenting hatred towards Jews,” said Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. “Zundel serves as a reminder of why civil society must remain vigilant in its battle with the purveyors of hate.”

He added that Zundel’s death will bring an “especially pernicious saga” to a close.

Upon his conviction in Germany in 2007, Bernie Farber, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress, called Zundel “one of the most renowned hatemongers.”

“That will be his final epitaph,” he said.

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Toronto Sun | 07Aug2017 | Mark Bonokoski
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/08/07/ernst-zundel-deserved-agony-not-a-quiet-exit

Ernst Zundel deserved agony, not a quiet exit

As historical footnotes go, one of my proudest contributions was the exposing of Ernst Zundel as a neo-Nazi.

From that point onward, the secret world of this notorious Toronto-based anti-Semite began to unravel, leading to years in court fighting extradition as a security risk, and finally his deportation to a German jail where he served time for inciting racial hatred and for being a Holocaust denier, a criminal offence in Germany.

It has been learned, through a posting by his estranged wife, that Zundel -- odious to the core -- died of a heart attack Saturday [05Aug2017] at age 78 at his home in Germany’s Black Forest where he lived after his release from prison in 2010 following five years of incarceration.

In the end, he had been deported from both the United States and Canada, and was wanted by no one.

Germany had no choice. Zundel was one of theirs.

It began for me in 1978 when a TV mini-series on the Holocaust saw the sudden appearance of Ernst Zundel being quoted in all the media as a legitimate and seemingly benign spokesman for a group called Concerned Parents of German Descent, who argued that the Second World War was long over, and that Germans were being tarnished yet again by the sins of their forefathers.

Who in hell was this Ernst Zundel?

As I would soon uncover and expose, he was the author, among many hate-filled pamphlets, of a recently published 120-page book called The Hitler We Loved and Why, which he had written under the nom-de-plume of his two middle names, Christof Friedrich.

It was printed and distributed by White Power Publications (WPP) in Reedy, West Virginia.

Its editor, George Dietz, convinced by my ruse that he and I shared similar ideologies, admitted in a phone conversation that Ernst Zundel and Christof Friedrich were the same.

A review of Zundel’s book, published in the neo-Nazi Liberty Bell magazine, which was also a product of WPP, read as follows:

“(Friedrich) leaves no doubt about it. Hitler was well loved and loved in return, but this relationship between the Leader and his people was not the gushy, sickly-sweet effusion of an obese Jewish mother for her pimply, draft-dodging son. This was Aryan love. Strong, steady and uplifting.

“Out of the rubble for a nation laid waste by the Jews, the Fuehrer built an orderly, corruption-free, economically vibrant and morally-pure society in which our men were manly.”

In Zundel’s mind, like in the mind of like-thinking neo-Nazis, the death of six million Jews in German extermination camps was a hoax, and Hitler was “a type of risen German Christ, a faith figure in the eyes of his people.”

Within hours of that column hitting the newsstands of the day, complete with that review of Christof Friedrich’s essay on Hitler love, Ernst Zundel’s jig was up. His days as a credible media spokesman were over.

By the next morning, he was forced to admit on the CBC that he and Christof Friedrich were one and the same and, before long, a series of criminal courts became his second home.

When Zundel was eventually released from that German prison, he complained his cell was no better than a “chicken coop.” Compared to the concentration camps where six million Jews lived and died, however, it was a five-star hotel.

The fact that he was able to die at home in Germany, of natural causes, and apparently in robust health up until the heart attack hit, is just another example of how life isn’t fair.

He deserved agony, but got none.

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W.Z. Links to articles archived on this website that are critical of Mr. Pierre Blais:

[A] Submission to Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on April 07, 2005 by William W. Zuzak, Ph.D.
http://willzuzak.ca/tp/cimm05/zuzak20050407CIMMsubmission.html
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EXCERPT

(4) Pierre Blais:
Mr. Blais was first elected to parliament in 1984, but lost his seat in the Nov. 04, 1993 election. In 1989, he was Solicitor General responsible for the operation of CSIS and the RCMP. He replaced Kim Campbell as Minister of Justice and Attorney General in January 1993 and in this capacity responded to a critical letter I had written Ms. Campbell concerning the war crimes issue. His response dated Apr. 05, 1993 was completely unsatisfactory, but included the following sentence: "Denaturalization, deportation or extradition are still alternative remedies if criminal prosecution is not possible."
http://willzuzak.ca/tp/Geocities/letters/blais19930405zuzak.html  [... internal link ...]
This confirms that Mr. Blais and the bureaucrats within the Department of Justice were already planning to implement the d&d process even under the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

Surprisingly, even though he was a former politician, Pierre Blais was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Canada in June 1998. Even more surprisingly, even though he was in an obvious conflict of interest, having previously been Solicitor General, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, he was assigned to the Zundel case on May 01, 2003 to determine whether there were "reasonable grounds" to declare Mr. Zundel a security risk to Canada.

(Mr. Zundel was deported from the United States on Feb. 18, 2003 and placed in solitary confinement in a Toronto jail. A "security certificate" was signed by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Denis Coderre, and the Solicitor General, Wayne Easter, on either April 30 or May 01, 2003. After 43 days of hearings over 2 years during which sensitive material was withheld from the Zundel defence, Mr. Blais submitted his judgment against Mr. Zundel on Feb. 24, 2005. Mr. Zundel was deported to Germany and incarcerated on Mar. 01, 2005.)

This case is relevant to my submission, because according to Pierre Blais, "reasonable grounds" falls short of "balance of probabilities", which falls short of the usual judicial criterion of "beyond a reasonable doubt". He also claims that, although "Holocaust denial" was not relevant in his judgment, "incitement to hatred and potential political violence" was relevant. We note that the majority of witnesses on Bill C-18 were very critical of the concept of security certificate and "secret trials". Also, as outlined in my Addendum, [... internal link ...] David Matas, Jack Silverstone and Kenneth Narvey all refer negatively to Ernst Zundel and the CIC bureaucrats refer repeatedly to "hate-mongering" in their testimony before CIMM.

From these four cases, I conclude that judicial independence in Canada is a myth.

[B] Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration -- Meetings on Canadian Citizenship -- April 07, 2005
http://willzuzak.ca/tp/cimm05/cimm34_20050407.html
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EXCERPT

In section E, myth of judicial independence, I question whether the judiciary in Canada is truly independent of outside pressure or political interference. In my addendum I have demonstrated that Kenneth Narvey has, over many years, been deliberately intimidating and influencing the Canadian judiciary. In today's brief, I review the cases of four judges: Antonio Lamer, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, whose relationship with Israeli Supreme Court judges Shamgar and Barak may have influenced the Tobiass judgment; Supreme Court judges Louise Arbour and Rosalie Abella, both of whom come from highly politicized backgrounds; and Pierre Blais, former Solicitor General responsible for CSIS and the RCMP, as well as the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, who morphed from a politician into a judge ruling on the validity of the so-called “security certificate” issued by Denis Coderre to incarcerate and deport Ernst Zundel to Germany.

[C] Of the 24 links on the chrc.html page, many of the articles deal with freedom of speech, hate mongering, anti-hate legislation, etc. Indeed, the head of the CHRC, Mary Gusella, can herself be accused of promoting hatred against people she does not approve of:
Hate on the Internet CHRC Conference, 15Dec2005; M. Gusella  [... internal link ...]