It was the third time that Wolfgang Frohlich (r), 56, had been found guilty on similar charges, following letters to Austrian members of parliament and Pope Benedict XVI denouncing the genocide as a "Satanic lie."
VIENNA (AFP)---A Vienna court sentenced Monday a former
extreme-right city councillor to four years in prison for Holocaust denial, adding another two-and-a-half years of a previous suspended sentence, a report said.
It was the third time that Wolfgang Frohlich, 56, had been found guilty on similar charges, following letters to Austrian members of parliament and Pope Benedict XVI denouncing the Holocaust as a "Satanic lie," the APA news agency said.
Pleading "absolutely not guilty," according to APA, Frohlich had already served 23 months behind bars since 2003 -- and gasped in court as the other 29 months were added.
Frohlich -- kicked out of the populist far-right FPOe party in 1994 -- is to appeal, said his lawyer, Harald Schuster.
Austria has one of the strictest sets of laws surrounding Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi activity.
British revisionist historian David Irving spent 13 months in jail after
his arrest in 2005 before being expelled to the UK.
http://www.ejpress.org/article/23149
Six-and-a-half years for myths like this:
Author BEST-SELLING TALE NETTED MILLIONS admits Holocaust® story was a hoax
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BEST-SELLING TALE NETTED MILLIONS
Author admits
Holocaust® story was a hoax
Author: My Holocaust Book is a Hoax
Associated Press Saturday, 1 March 2008
BRUSSELS ? A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her
best-selling “memoir” depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived
with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust®,
her lawyers said Friday.
MONIQUE DeWAEL, aka MISHA DEFONSECA:
“Memoirs” were another Holocaust® hoax.
Misha Defonseca’s book, “Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years,”
was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film
in France.
Her two Brussels-based lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele,
said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and
that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack
of wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II.
“I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed,” Defonseca said, according
to a written statement the lawyers gave to The Associated Press.
Defonseca, 71, now lives in Dudley, Massachusetts. Her husband,
Maurice, told The Boston Globe on Thursday that she would not
comment.
Defonseca wrote in her book that Nazis seized her parents when she
was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe
alone for four years. She claimed she found herself trapped in the
Warsaw ghetto, killed a Nazi soldier in self-defense and was adopted
by a pack of wolves that protected her.
Fantasy tale a ‘way of surviving’
In the statement, Defonseca acknowledged the story she wrote was
a fantasy and that she never fled her home in Brussels during the war
to find her parents.
Defonseca says her real name is Monique De Wael and that her parents
were arrested and killed by Nazis as Belgian resistance fighters, the
statement said.
“This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way
of surviving,” the statement said.
“I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself
in my place, of a 4-year-old girl who was very lost,” the statement said.
The statement said her parents were arrested when she was 4 and
she was taken care of by her grandfather and uncle. She said she was
poorly treated by her adopted family, called a “daughter of a traitor”
because of her parents’ role in the resistance, which she said led her
to “feel Jewish.”
Found it difficult to tell what was real
She said there were moments when she “found it difficult to differentiate
between what was real and what was part of my imagination.”
Nathalie Uyttendaele said she and her brother contacted the author
last weekend to show her material discovered by Belgian daily Le Soir,
which questioned her story.
“We gave her this information and it was very difficult. She was
confronted with a reality that is different from what she has been living
for 70 years,” Nathalie Uyttendaele said.
Pressure on the author to defend the accuracy of her book had grown
in recent weeks.
“I’m not an expert on relations between humans and wolves but I am
a specialist of the persecution of Jews and they (Defonseca’s family)
can’t be found in the archives,” Belgian historian Maxime Steinberg
told RTL television. “The De Wael family is not Jewish nor were they
registered as Jewish.”
Made millions on the story
Defonseca had been asked to write the book by US publisher Jane
Daniel in the 1990s, after Daniel heard the writer tell the story in a
Massachusetts synagogue.
Daniel and Defonseca fell out over profits received from the best-selling
book, which led to a lawsuit. In 2005, a Boston court ordered Daniel
to pay Defonseca and her ghost writer Vera Lee $22.5 million.
Lee, of Newton, Massachusetts, said she was shocked to hear
Defonseca made up the story.
“She always maintained that this was truth as she recalled it, and I
trusted that that was the case,” Lee said.
Defonseca’s lawyers said Daniel has not yet paid the court-ordered sum.
Daniel said Friday she would try to get the judgment overturned.
She said she could not fully research Defonseca’s story before it was
published because the woman claimed she did not know her parents’
names, her birthday or where she was born.
“There was nothing to go on to research,” she said.
http://news.aol.ca:80/article/Author-My-Holocaust-Book-is-a-Hoax/123459/
QUESTION: Will the millions of schoolchildren forced to read
this moving story as part of their Holocaust® indoctrination
now be told that it was all a big lie?
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