Ernst Zuendel
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Ernst Zuendel (born April 24, 1939) is a German Holocaust revisionist and pamphleteer.
Zuendel emigrated to Canada from Germany when he was 19 in order to avoid being drafted by the German military. During the 1960s he came under the tutelage of Canadian fascist Adrien Arcand.
In the 1970s and 1980s Zuendel operated a small-press publishing house called Samisdat Publishing which issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood aka Richard Verrall (a British neo-Nazi leader) as well as booklets claiming that UFOs were actually Nazi secret weapons operated from secret Nazi military bases in Antarctica.
In 1985 he was criminally charged for "disseminating and publishing material denying the Holocaust." Zuendel's trial was notable for its reliance on testimony from individuals such as David Irving and Fred A. Leuchter, a self-styled expert in gas chambers whose testimony was dismissed due to his lack of any engineering credentials. Zuendel was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by an Ontario court but in 1991 his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada when the law he had been charged under, reporting false news, was ruled unconstitutional.
In the late 1990s he was under investigation by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for promoting hatred against Jews via his website when he left Canada for Tennessee vowing never to return.
In 2003, Zuendel was arrested in the United States for violating that country's immigration rules. He was deported to Canada despite the fact that he is a German citizen and his permanent residency status in Canada had expired due to his prolonged absence from the country.
Zuendel remains in detention in Canada as a security threat due to his alleged links with violent neo-Nazi groups. He is resisting deportation to Germany where he is wanted for hate crimes and is seeking refugee status in Canada.
Quotes about Ernst Zuendel:
- "If Ernst Zuendel is a refugee, Daffy Duck is Albert Einstein... Some propositions are so ludicrous that they are a betrayal of common sense and human dignity if allowed a moment's oxygen." -- Rex Murphy
- "I have always seen blunders in my life not as stumbling blocks, but as stepping stones."
- "The Jews of the world have a Holocaust coming."
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