Udo Walendy (21 January 1927 – 17 November 2022) was a German Holocaust denier. Like Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, he disputed Germany's guilt for the

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Life

Walendy was born in

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on 21 January 1927. . Towards the end of the war Walendy was drafted first into the ''

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'' (auxiliary force), then the '' Luftwaffenhelfer'' ( child soldier in the air force) and finally into the regular ''

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'' (the German military). He completed his '' Abitur'' (

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) in 1946 and then went to

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. From 1950 to 1956 he studied political science at the Hochschule für Politik in

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, where he received his diploma. Afterwards he worked as the director of a folk high school in Herford and as the business leader of an employers' association in

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. In 1965 he went independent and founded the ''Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung'' ("Publishing House for Folklore and Contemporary Historical Research") in Vlotho. In 1999 ownership of the publishing house was transferred to his wife, since Walendy was barred from directing it due to his conviction and imprisonment for 15 months for publicly questioning

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. He maintained close contact with the Belgian revisionist organisation Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO).

Activity as author and publisher

Besides other works Walendy oversaw the publication of numerous materials in which the Holocaust was denied and the

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was generally presented in a positive light. Among others these include: * As early as 1964 he published his own book, ''Wahrheit für Deutschland – Die Schuldfrage des Zweiten Weltkriegs'' (''Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War''), which in 1979 was listed by Germany's Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons as material that could not be publicly advertised or given to young readers, due to the version it presented of the events that led to World War II. This restriction was lifted in 1994, after a long legal battle, on the grounds that Walendy's constitutional rights had been violated, since the federal constitutional court ruled that even a supposedly biased representation could be defended as an academic work. A renewed attempt to have the work listed was abandoned in 2001 due to a negative assessment of the chances of success in the event of another court case. * Numerous copies of the historical revisionist magazine series ''Historische Tatsachen'',Die Literatur der Auschwitzleugner: Udo Walendy, Historische Tatsachen Nr. 26
Holocaust-Referenz: Argumente gegen Auschwitzleugner. which continues to be published by the Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO) in

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. Its very first edition from 1974 contains a German translation of

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's Holocaust-denying booklet " Did Six Million Really Die?". * The German translation of Arthur Butz's book ''

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'', in which the author attempts to discredit the evidence for the Holocaust. Walendy was charged with criminal activity several times, including under Germany's '' Volksverhetzung'' law (incitement to hatred). On 1 September 2014, Germar Rudolf's Castle Hill Publishers (UK) reprinted ''Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War'' in an updated expanded, and corrected second edition, as ''Who Started World War II: Truth for a War-Torn World'', which has also been translated anew from the German original.

Written works

*Who Started World War II: Truth for a War-Torn World (an updated, expanded, newly translated and corrected edition of Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War), Castle Hill Publishers, 1 September 2014, . *Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’ (contributor) *Forged War Crimes Malign the German Nation *Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War (Wahrheit für Deutschland – Die Schuldfrage des Zweiten Weltkriegs), originally published in 1964. Reprint by the Barnes Review with original title from the translators’ file without any editing or changes in layout, 2013, .

Notes

:''Much of this article is translated from the German wikipedia article of 2 March 2007''

External links

Original German mp3-speeches from Udo WalendyPersonen: Udo Walendy
Holocaust-Referenz: Argumente gegen Auschwitzleugner.

'' Der Spiegel'', 29 November 1971. {{DEFAULTSORT:Walendy, Udo 1927 births 2022 deaths Writers from Berlin German people convicted of Holocaust denial German prisoners and detainees Luftwaffenhelfer German Army personnel of World War II Reich Labour Service members German politicians convicted of crimes National Democratic Party of Germany politicians People convicted of racial hatred offences Prisoners and detainees of Germany