Sylvia Stolz (born 16 August 1963) is a German former lawyer and convicted

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Ernst Zündel and Stolz trials

Stolz was a member of the defense team of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, who was tried in March 2006 for distributing antisemitic literature, including Holocaust denial material, via a website."Holocaust denier in Germany sentenced to five years in prison"
''The New York Times'' (''International Herald Tribune''), 15 February 2007 Stolz disrupted Zündel's initial trial and was barred from the courtroom because of her behavior. She had said the judges deserved the

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for "offering succour to the enemy" and had signed a legal document "

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"."German Neo-Nazi Lawyer Sentenced for Denying Holocaust"
''dw'' (Germany), 14 January 2008 In her view, Germany has been under a "foreign occupation which has portrayed

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as a devil for 60 years, but that is not true." After ignoring the bar, Stolz had to be physically removed from the court. During the March 2006 trial she called

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"the biggest lie in world history". She also defended Holocaust denier Horst Mahler. Zündel was eventually convicted in February 2007, and served a five-year term of imprisonment. Stolz was convicted in January 2008 of the same, and additional offenses, and sentenced to a 3½-year prison term. She was also banned from practicing law for five years. As of May 2009, Stolz was the partner of the German Nazi, Horst Mahler.

Since 2011

Stolz was released from Aichach Prison on 13 April 2011. In 2012, she was invited by Ivo Sasek, the founder of the Anti-Zensur-Koalition (AZK) (Anti-Censorship Coalition), as a guest speaker at the AZK's 8th conference held at

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, Graubünden,

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, where she spoke on 24 November 2012. In January 2013, Daniel Kettiger, a Bernese lawyer, filed a criminal complaint with the Graubünden Prosecutor's Office against both Stolz and Sasek. He accused Stolz of violating Swiss race law, Art. 261^bis of the Swiss Criminal Code, in that she stated that the Holocaust has never been proved by a court of law, that findings on the location of the crime, method of murder, number killed, time period of crime, perpetrators, bodies or evidence of murder are lacking as is finding as fact that there was

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intention to kill

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. Sasek was accused of failing to act as a responsible moderator.''Strafanzeige gegen Stolz und Sasek''
'' Die Südostschweiz'', 17 January 2013''Stolz und Sasek in den Mühlen der Justiz''
'' Die Südostschweiz'', 18 January 2013 On 25 February 2015, Stolz was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment by a court in Munich for the speech she delivered in 2012. On 15 February 2018, the sentence was reduced to 18 months, time served to be reckoned from 23 May 2019, the date of arrest.

Personal life

Stolz was previously in a relationship with right-wing extremist and fellow Holocaust denier Horst Mahler.

References

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