Neo-Nazi to serve time for Holocaust denial

A leader in a far-right party in Germany was sentenced to prison for Holocaust denial and beating up anti-fascist activists.

Marcel Wöll, the 24-year-old leader of the National Democratic Party’s division in the German state of Hessen, was sentenced to four months in prison, according to The Associated Press.

Woll has called school trips to former concentration camps like Auschwitz a form of “brainwashing” and has said the government should not subsidize such outings to the “so-called sites of National Socialist terror.” The remarks prompted a lawsuit against him by a local politician.

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JTA
Published: 08/07/2007
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103484.html