Editing Ernst Zündel (section)

== Imprisonment in Germany ==
After a warrant for his arrest was issued in Germany for incitement to hatred, Zündel attempted to seek refugee status in Canada, however he was instead deemed a threat to national security due to his links to Alt-Right figures such as [[Aryan Nations]] leaders [[Richard Girnt Butler]] and [[Terry Long]], neo-Nazi [[Ewald Althans]] and German far-right politician [[Christian Worch]] and placed in detention. Despite campaigning from Alt-Right figures such as [[Paul Fromm]] and [[David Duke]], Zündel was deported to Germany on 1 March 2005, where he was immediately arrested.

He was indicted on the grounds that he had "denied the fate of destruction for the Jews planned by National Socialist powerholders 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 extortion of the German people." During the ensuing trial, 3 of Zundel's lawyers were removed from his defence team, one because he had been disbarred, one for acting as a puppet of the first and one for disrupting the trial. He was ultimately found guilty in 2007, his case not being helped by his lawyer's closing statement containing quotes from ''Mein Kampf'', and was sentenced to five years in prison. He was released in 2010, and was banned from the United States soon after due to his conviction.
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