- ERLANGEN, Germany -- Well-known
environmentalist Dr. Johannes Lerle, 55, was sentenced in mid-June by an
Erlangen court to one year in prison for alleged "racial incitement."
The charge stems from his "public denial or minimizing of National
Socialist atrocities in a manner designed to disturb the peace."
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- Asked in an interview with the Catholic publication Kreuz
(Cross) if he was a "Holocaust denier," Lerle said that such
a question belongs in the realm of religion. He pointed out that while
one could deny the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection
of Christ, the so- called Holocaust had become a state-mandated article
of faith in which questioning of the manufacture of bars of soap and lampshades
out of human tissue by the National Socialists had become a punishable
offense. Lerle declared that he was prepared to stand for the truth agains
the lie, regardless of the consquences.
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- For the full story in German, July 25, see:
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- http://www.kreuz.net/article. 5581.html
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