Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison after serving a five-year sentence.
Zundel, 69, who was released March 1 from a prison in Mannheim, was found guilty in 2007 of inciting hatred against Jews and systematically denying the Nazi genocide against the Jews — in 14 specific instances — on his Web site and in a newsletter. His five-year sentence included two years in jail following his deportation from Canada in 2005. The trial began in November 2006.
Zundel received the maximum sentence, according to reports. He was among the first right-wing extremists to use the Internet to spread hate material, and Canada expelled him after courts there found his Web site to be unconstitutional.
During his trial in Mannheim, Zundel’s attorney, Sylvia Stolz, denied the Holocaust herself and in 2008 was sentenced to three years, eight months in jail. — jta