Скачать или смотреть Trial of Ernst Zuendel, prominent Holocaust denier

(9 Feb 2006)
1. Wide exterior of court building in Mannheim
2. People waiting at security check, pan to security check
3. Police searching visitor
4. Pan over announcement of state court Mannheim, pan down to red stamp "confinement"
5. Wide of defence lawyers
6. Defence lawyers talking to each other
7. Cutaway viewing gallery
8. Horst Mahler, dismissed former defence lawyer of Ernst Zundel and right-wing extremist, entering courtroom
9. Close-up of Horst Mahler
10. Defendant Ernst Zundel entering courtroom and waving, applause in the audience
11. Cutaway media
12. Zundel walking up to his lawyers
13. Close-up of Zundel talking to lawyer
14. Wide of Zundel talking to lawyers
15. Man sorting through papers
16. Judges entering courtroom, zoom out wide of judges sitting down
STORYLINE:
Ernst Zundel, a German white supremacist deported from Canada over accusations that he repeatedly denied the Holocaust, returned to court on Thursday to face charges of incitement, libel and disparaging the dead.
The trial was halted in November when the judge dismissed two members of Zundel's defence team, saying he doubted they would mount a "regular" defence after one described Jews as an "enemy people".
On Thursday, presiding Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen warned dozens of Zundel supporters in the viewing gallery that they would be ejected if they caused any disturbance.
The session was interrupted repeatedly as the court considered and rejected motions for Meinerzhagen to be removed for alleged bias and other complaints.
Meinerzhagen brought one elderly lady to the front of the court to reprimand her for laughing loudly after he announced a break.
German authorities accuse Zundel of decades of anti-Semitic activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust, a crime in his native Germany and some other European countries in documents and on the Internet.
66-year-old Zundel faces a maximum five years in prison if convicted.
The International Auschwitz Committee has said survivors of the death camp see the trial as an important part of the campaign against Holocaust deniers.
Two prominent deniers were recently detained in Europe. British historian David Irving, who is in Austrian custody, and Germar Rudolf, who was deported back to his native Germany from the United States.
Zundel and his supporters argue that he is a peaceful campaigner denied his right to free speech and view his trial as a chance to attack alleged Western double standards and gain publicity.
They have sought to bolster their arguments by referring to the Iranian president's recent description of the Holocaust as a myth and have welcomed his call for a conference examining whether it occurred.
They have also seized on how European newspaper editors invoked the right to free speech to defend the publication of provocative caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
A prominent white supremacist and Holocaust doubter since the late 1970s, Zundel ran Samisdat Publishers, a Canadian printer and distributor of far-right material.
A book called "Did Six Million Really Die?" is offered for sale on Zundel's Web site.
In his indictment in Mannheim, prosecutors cite Zundel texts dating from 1999 to 2003 which they say show his "pseudoscientific" attempts to clear the Nazis of guilt over the Holocaust.
Zundel "denied the fate of destruction for the Jews planned by National Socialist power holders and justified this by saying that the mass destruction in Auschwitz and Treblinka, among others, were an invention of the Jews and served the repression and blackmail of the German people", it says.

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...