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Von Oppenheim Research Fellow International Institute for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem. Professor of Law, Whittier Law School, California, USA.
Holocaust Denial Laws and Other Legislation Criminalizing Promotion of Nazism
I. Introduction As a result of the enormous suffering inflicted upon the world by the Nazi regime, and especially Europe, a number of European countries have enacted laws criminalizing both the denial of the Holocaust and the promotion of Nazi ideology. The aim of these laws is to prevent the resurrection of Nazism in Europe by stamping out at the earliest opportunity – or to use the phrase “to nip it in the bud” – any public reemergence of Nazi views, whether through speech, symbols,... Continue reading