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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Zundel etc.
Message-ID: <647@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 13:51:26 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Summary: how can he not have known

In article <584@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
||In the Zundel trial, I am rather surprised that the jury could actually
||come to a determination that he *knew* what he was saying was false.

Don't be too surprised, Chris. Have you read any detailed reports of
the trial, and particularly of Zundel's testimony? (The most detailed
reports I saw were in the Canadian Jewish News, which devoted two
full pages each weekly issue to the trial.)

Zundel wasn't just raving in vacuo. He has studied the Holocaust
extensively. He has a constructed a scale model of Auschwitz. I
don't find it surprising that the jury should be able to look at
him and say, given the amount he's read about the Holocaust, it's
impossible for him not to know that what he published was false.

If there was any hope for Zundel towards the end, his own testimony
at the end of the trial totally destroyed it. Statements about how
wonderful Hitler was, among others, didn't improve the jurors'
opinion of him.

We'll never know the truth, of course. Under Canadian law, jurors
are forbidden from discussing any aspect of the case or their
decision, even after it's all over.

Dave Sherman
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