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A German neo-Nazi publisher was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison for inciting racial hatred and denying that the Nazis murdered six million Jews. Ernst Zündel, who was extradited from Canada to face trial in Germany in 2005, received the maximum sentence available for the crime of Holocaust denial after being found guilty on 14 counts ... "You might as well argue that the sun rises in the west, but you cannot change that the Holocaust has been proven," he said, referring to Zündel's work Did Six Million Really Die? The prosecution accused him of using "pseudo-scientific methods" in...

Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has conceded defeat in his two-year legal battle to avoid being deported to Germany. Mr. Zundel, 65, will likely be flown out of Canada Tuesday, according to a letter he received yesterday from the Canada Border Services Agency. Moving with lightning speed, the federal agency sent the letter hours after Federal Court of Canada Judge Pierre Blais had paved the way for Mr. Zundel to be deported as a danger to Canadian security. "The purpose of this letter is to inform you that your removal to Germany is imminent. . . . Please note that you...

TORONTO - Jewish activists Friday hailed a court ruling that allows Canada to deport German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to face prosecution at home. Zundel, author of "The Hitler We Loved and Why," has been held in a Toronto jail for two years while authorities determined whether he posed a security risk to Canadian society. Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais said Zundel's activities were not only a threat to national security, "but also a threat to the international community of nations." Zundel, a leading proponent of white supremacy, claims the Holocaust never happened. In his 63-page decision released in Ottawa...

OTTAWA (AP) -- A German lost another bid Thursday to challenge Canada's claim that he is a security threat and should be deported to his native land, where he faces charges for alleged anti-Semitic activities. The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear Ernst Zundel's argument that he is being treated unfairly because some of the evidence against him remains secret. The government filed court papers last year saying Zundel posed a threat to national security and should be deported. The determinaton was based on secret intelligence, some of which has been shared with a Federal Court judge but hasn't...

Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is applying for refugee status in order to return to Canada. He was handed over to Canadian immigration officials by U.S. authorities on Wednesday. Zundel, 63, had been in custody in Tennessee for allegedly over-staying a temporary U.S. visa. He publicly questions whether the extermination of millions of Jews during the Second World War ever happened. He was once described by the U.S. Jewish Anti-Defamation League as "Canada's leading pro-Nazi and Holocaust-denial propagandist," Zundel had been living in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevierville, about 30 kilometres east of Knoxville, for the last...