Holocaust denial writer jailed for five years | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited: "
· Extradited German given maximum sentence
· Publisher a dangerous agitator, judge says
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.
The prosecutor, Andreas Grossmann, said Zündel's claim that the Holocaust never happened earned him the title of 'political conman' and that his views were dangerous to Germans."