1996 ⟶ Harun Yahya's 'Holocaust Lie' Distribution
In Turkey, in 1996, the Islamic preacher Harun Yahya distrib...
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📰 Harry Elmer Barnes Denies Holocaust in American Mercury
In a 1964 article, "Zionist Fraud", published in the American Mercury, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote: "The courageous author lays the chief blame for misrepresentation on those whom we must call the swindlers of the crematoria, the Israeli politicians who derive billions of marks from nonexistent, mythical and imaginary cadavers, whose numbers have been reckoned in an unusually distorted and dishonest manner." Using Rassinier as his source, Barnes claimed that Germany was the victim of aggression in both 1914 and 1939, and that reports of the Holocaust were propaganda to justify a war of aggression against Germany.⟶
Holocaust DenialBarnes, Harry ElmerRassinier, PaulAntisemitismPropagandaAmerican MercuryIdeology
United States📰 Marco Polo Magazine's Holocaust Denial Article
In February 1995 a Japanese magazine named Marco Polo, a 250,000-circulation monthly published by Bungei Shunju, ran a Holocaust denial article by physician Masanori Nishioka which stated:⟶
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Japan⚖️ Belgium Makes Holocaust Denial Illegal
In Belgium, Holocaust denial was made illegal in 1995.⟶
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Belgium📚 Harun Yahya's 'Holocaust Lie' Distribution
In Turkey, in 1996, the Islamic preacher Harun Yahya distributed thousands of copies of a book which was originally published the previous year, entitled Soykırım Yalanı ("The Holocaust Lie") and mailed unsolicited texts to American and European schools and colleges. The publication of Soykırım Yalanı sparked much public debate. This book claims, "what is presented as Holocaust is the death of some Jews due to the typhus plague during the war and the famine towards the end of the war caused by the defeat of the Germans." In March 1996, a Turkish painter and intellectual, Bedri Baykam, published a strongly worded critique of the book in the Ankara daily newspaper Siyah-Beyaz ("Black and White"). A legal suit for slander was brought against him. During the trial in September, Baykam exposed the real author of the book as Adnan Oktar. The suit was withdrawn in March 1997.⟶
Holocaust DenialTurkeyAdnan OktarAntisemitismIdeology1990sIslamic Antisemitism
TurkeyUnited States🗣️ Jean-Marie Le Pen's Holocaust Minimization
This year the European Parliament, of which Jean-Marie Le Pen was then a member, removed his Parliamentary immunity so that Le Pen could be tried by a German court for comments he made at a December 1996 press conference before the German Republikaner party. Echoing his 1987 remarks in France (see above), Le Pen stated: "If you take a 1,000-page book on World War II, the concentration camps take up only two pages and the gas chambers 10 to 15 lines. This is what one calls a detail." In June 1999, a Munich court found this statement to be "minimizing the Holocaust, which caused the deaths of six million Jews," and convicted and fined Le Pen for his remarks. Le Pen retorted ironically: "I understand now that it's the Second World War which is a detail of the history of the gas chambers."⟶
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Germany📜 Luxembourg Outlaws Holocaust Denial
In Luxembourg, Article 457–3 of the Criminal Code, Act of 19 July 1997 outlaws Holocaust denial and denial of other genocides. The punishment is imprisonment for between 8 days and 6 months and/or a fine.⟶
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