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This Nov. 2008 image from video shows British-born Bishop Richard Williamson during an interview in Schierling, south of Regensburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Courtesy SVTBerlin - A German court has fined an ultraconservative British bishop (EURO)1,800 ($2,400) for denying the Holocaust in a television interview.
German news agency dpa reported that an administrative court in Regensburg convicted Richard Williamson of incitement and levied the fine on Wednesday. The case was retried after an earlier conviction of Williamson was overturned on procedural grounds.
The 72-year-old Williamson told a Swedish TV station in 2008, during an interview conducted near Regensburg, that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II. Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany.
A traditionalist group of breakaway Catholics, the Society of St. Pius X, expelled Williamson last October. He didn’t attend Wednesday’s court proceedings.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/16/3185503/german-court-convicts-holocaust.html#storylink=cpy
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Jan 16, 2013 at 06:08 PM Liepa Says:Report as Inappropriate
If holocaust denial is a crime in Germany than please don't become a laughing stock with a measley $2400 fine.
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Jan 16, 2013 at 06:50 PM Normal Says:Report as Inappropriate
I am quite 'intrigued' by these guys. I think they really believe what they say. I am sure they are all rabidly anti-semetic, but are somehow still convinced it never happened. Perhaps some sort of mental disorder?
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Jan 16, 2013 at 08:19 PM Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ If holocaust denial is a crime in Germany than please don't become a laughing stock with a measley $2400 fine. ”
The fine is unimportant the importance is that he is
Roman Catholic and a presedential candidate was cut out from the cloth trying to change the American constitution and eliminate the state church clause. It is the Roman Catholic Church and the fine is irrelevant and that I tell you as a survivor of 3 1/2 years of concentration camp a total of 7 years under Hitler. The laughing stock are your friends sitting in Germany and consuming cholov yisroel
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Jan 16, 2013 at 10:58 PM Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I am quite 'intrigued' by these guys. I think they really believe what they say. I am sure they are all rabidly anti-semetic, but are somehow still convinced it never happened. Perhaps some sort of mental disorder? ”
No, ingrained epigenetic hatred against a Yid
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Jan 16, 2013 at 11:13 PM PaulinSaudi Says:Report as Inappropriate
Weird dude.
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Jan 16, 2013 at 11:36 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I am quite 'intrigued' by these guys. I think they really believe what they say. I am sure they are all rabidly anti-semetic, but are somehow still convinced it never happened. Perhaps some sort of mental disorder? ”
You are SURE that they are all "rabidly anti-semetic", but as an alleged Jew, you don't even know how to spell "semitic"? shame on YOU!
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Jan 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ You are SURE that they are all "rabidly anti-semetic", but as an alleged Jew, you don't even know how to spell "semitic"? shame on YOU! ”
And you....please don't be so petty.....
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Jan 20, 2013 at 09:45 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ And you....please don't be so petty..... ”
wow! You consider it petty when a Jowish person attacks anti-semitism but doesn't even know how to spell it? How can any Jow not know that? I hate it when non_Jows write anti-semetism or anti-semete, but absolutely am embarrassed when that comes from a Jowish person.