 London, Sunday, October
31, 1999
Below:
Germar Rudolf addresses an appreciative
audience
at Real History, USA in Cincinnati, on
Sept 26, 1999  Germany
pursues Rudolf Extradition
By
Chris Hastings and Jessica
Berry A FUGITIVE from justice
and traced to Britain by The Telegraph is
now facing the threat of
extradition. Senior officials at the German Embassy
in London have confirmed that moves are
underway to have Germar Rudolf
returned to Germany. Rudolf fled his
home in Stuttgart in 1995 after he was
sentenced to 14 months in prison for
inciting racial hatred. He was convicted
of breaching Germany's Holocaust denial
laws after he published a report that
denied the use of gas chambers at
Auschwitz. He fled the country before his jail
sentence was due to begin and escaped to
Spain where he stayed with Otto Ernst
Remer
(right), a former Nazi general and
friend of Adolf Hitler. German
police lost track of him after he left
Spain in the summer of 1996, but an
investigation by The Telegraph traced him
to a series of houses in south-east
England - in Hastings, Tunbridge Wells,
Pevensey Bay and Hove.  Rudolf,
who has been highly critical of the German
government, had assumed he could not be
extradited from Britain because Holocaust
denial is not an offence in this country.
But officials have confirmed they will
seek his return on the grounds that
incitement to racial hatred is a crime in
both countries. A senior official at the
embassy said:
"It is now highly likely that
we will be seeking the extradition of
Mr Rudolf."Holocaust denial may not be a crime
in Britain but incitement to racial
hatred is. Mr Rudolf was found guilty
of this offence. Now we know he is
definitely in England we can proceed.
If we do proceed we hope to have an
application before the Home Office
within the next few weeks." For any extradition attempt to proceed
the case would have to be referred to
Interpol by the prosecutor's office in
Stuttgart. An international warrant would
then be issued for Rudolf's arrest. Rudolf has continued to work as a
revisionist since he arrived in Britain.
He has set up a publishing business and
maintains an internet site, although he
keeps his home address secret. Last month
he visited the United States where he
spoke at a conference on revisionism. The
disclosure that Rudolf is likely to be
extradited has been welcomed by MPs and
Jewish groups. Stephen Twigg, the chairman of
the lobby group Labour Friends of Israel,
said: "I welcome any action that would
bring this man to justice." Mike
Gates MP, the vice-chairman of The
Council Against Anti-Semitism said: "This
is excellent news. This country should not
be used as a haven for people who have
committed crimes abroad. It is wrong that
people who have been inciting racial
hatred in one country should be allowed to
continue their work here." A Home Office spokesman said: "We would
never comment on the existence of a
request." Andrew Dismore, the
Labour MP for Hendon, has asked the Home
Office to deport Rudolf.
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Together
with her husband, the Czech-born John
Tusa, whose family fled to England
before WW.II, Ann Tusa had recently
published a rival book on the Nuremberg
Trials (which fact she did not mention in
her review). Perhaps the Sunday Telegraph
editor should be encouraged to review the
political objectivity and credentials of
those working on his newspaper's
electronic (online) edition.
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