A man is being trialed for denying the holocaust
If so, isn't that an infringement on freedom of expression
2006-11-14 08:45:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes you can. Denying the holocaust in Germany is a serious criminal offence.The following European countries all have laws against holocaust denial:
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Israel
Lithuania
Poland
Slovakia
Switzerland
In response to one of the werid American answers on this page: noone has "God Given" rights all rights are granted by the Governemnt or consitution. Do you think God prsented himself and saiid hhere are your rights? Second point is that Europe in the main is far more progressive than the USA and has a nmber of rights that you don't eg the right to free health care from cradle to grave, free education, et which isn't suprising as the notions of liberty that yoyr founding fathers used came from Europe and are part of the European condition not yours.
2006-11-15 08:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently it is illegal to deny the holocaust full stop! There have been a few instances where men have said that not as many people died in the Holocaust as were first thought. The truth is, no one will ever know the true number of people killed!
To deny the Holocaust and belittle the numbers is an insult to everyone who died, everyone who survived and the relatives, decendants and future offspring of these people.
Denial is just as bad as spitting on their graves!
2006-11-16 00:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by Huckleberry Finn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some times it is the way things are said that makes it against the law. He has the right to deny the Holocaust but he can not do so that might cause a riot.My dad was in Poland & saw first hand the death chambers. He was a medic with Patton. It made him sick to his stomach. Even today he will not talk about the camps.Fredom of speech also has some responsibilty with it. You can not yell FIRE in a movie theater with out going to jail because it will cause harm. So becarefull what you say & how you say it. It could keep you out of jail.
2006-11-14 09:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by BUTCH 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Holocaust denial is stupidity. easily asserting Jews must be killed is a hate crime. Germany's regulations are over the right. In Britain, it particularly is extremely very worry-unfastened to make relaxing of international conflict II, Hitler, and so on. yet in Germany they could locate this distasteful. it may be unlawful to mimic Hitler via giving the Nazi salute or different such issues. yet in Britain, this might join a hilarious comedian tale.
2016-10-03 23:19:46 · answer #4 · answered by spies 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way Nick Griffin walked free after inciting racial hatred.
Germany have been made to feel so guilty about the Holocaust they go all out to make up for it.
Obviously the Nazis were guilty of atrocious crimes but the German people of today are not the same people who did that to the Jews, people constantly remind them like they personally did it.
The man can't deny Jews were murdered and he is obviously wrong to pretend their suffering didn't happen. It is strange that he is on trial for saying that it didn't exist. After all it is his opinion -just like Nick Griffin said Islam was evil -his opinion, he was inciting racial hatred where as this man's remark was different but I suppose it depends on the social climate of the country. What you get away with in Britain is different with that of the rest of the world.
2006-11-14 09:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by The Face 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think so in Germany,
but definately in Austria, free speech is what it is, some things are more important perhaps in the eyes of the legislators and also the public that have placed them in power to write the laws.
A very contreversial english historian has recently got three years in Austria for it, or so I'm told.
2006-11-14 08:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by alx n 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he's being tried in Austria, some historian guy who's name escapes me...David something. Yes he can. I also know that Xenophobia is a crime in a few European countries including Germany. If the proposed European Arrest Warrant comes into being it would mean that you could be charged with xenophobia without setting foot on German soil.
2006-11-14 08:55:59 · answer #7 · answered by Darth Emiras 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Denial of war atrocities of one generation by a later one paves the road to acceptance of later atrocities. Anyone attempting this deserves harsh sanctions. Eyewitness proof only lasts as long as an eyewitness lives. Photographic proof is no longer above suspicion. Written accounts can be falsified or altered undetectably. The truth, however, remains the same. Over 6,000,000 ethnic and religious Jews were tortured and killed systematically during WW2. They weren't the only ones this last century, but theirs was a model of cold-blooded efficiency that made it so much worse.
2006-11-14 09:06:42 · answer #8 · answered by ERIC G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yep you certainly can. You can also be imprisoned for owning a copy of Mein Kampf, doing a Hitler salute, wearing Nazi symbols and generally doing anything associated with the Nazi past. A few years back in Berlin a man was convicted and jailed after teaching his dog to perform the Nazi salute and naming the Hitler.
2006-11-14 18:46:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
denying it didn't exist! is the opposite of denying it did exist, so you are asking if you can get sent to jail for saying the holocaust existed. Is this deliberate or do you mean what you ask
2006-11-14 08:57:01 · answer #10 · answered by ped 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋