Important Decision by the Supreme Court of FRG

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Important Decision by the Supreme Court of FRG

By Gerhard Ittner

German author Michael Winkler [http://www.michaelwinkler.de/] from Würzburg in Franconia had been succesfully appealing to the Supreme court, the Constitutional Court of the FRG.

The case: Winkler had been sentenced because of "denying the holocaust" for he had written in an article that "since 1944 no Jew had been deported to Auschwitz". Before the most recent decision of the Constitutional Court it had been trials in eight courts(!) maintaining the sentence.

Ridiculous enough, especially to be subject of eight trials, the question was whether "since" (in German "seit") means that from during (including) 1944 on no Jew had been deported to Auschwitz or that with the end of/after 1944 no Jew had been deported to Auschwitz.

http://codoh.com/library/document/4612/?lang=en