Associated Press – January 14, 2008
A former lawyer for a well-known Holocaust denier was convicted of incitement in Germany on Monday for denying the genocide herself and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Sylvia Stolz, who represented Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel at his trial, also was banned from practicing law for five years.
During Zundel's trial, Stolz repeatedly disputed the Nazis' mass murder of Jews, called for hatred of the Jewish population and ended a legal document with the words "Heil Hitler."
Zundel's first trial collapsed after Stolz was banned from the proceedings on the grounds she was trying to sabotage them.
Zundel's second trial at Mannheim state court ended in February 2007 with his conviction for incitement for denying the Holocaust — a crime in Germany.
The 67-year-old Zundel, who was deported from Canada in 2005 and also once lived in Tennessee, was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison.
In sentencing Stolz, Judge Rolf Glenz said she used Zundel's trial in order to deny the Holocaust and to spread revisionist ideas.
"Stolz has a basic reflex to make far-right statements," he said.
Stolz, who called the Holocaust "the biggest lie in world history," also was convicted of disparaging the country and its symbols and insulting the court.
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Last updated 16/01/2008
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