Ernst Zundel
Ernst Zundel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündelis a German publisher known for promoting Holocaust denial. He has been jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, of overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred". He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth24 April 1939
CountryGermany
But generally we had very good police protection, and when I found that the police protection wasn't swift enough or adequate, I organized my own.
And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood.
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
There is, of course, a certain amount of protection from being within the center of the city, because there are always people about.
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.
The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.
The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.
Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.