Now 71 years old, and in relatively good health, Udo Walendy is a veteran revisionist historian, author and publisher. For a time he was employed as a teacher by the German Red Cross. In 1979 Walendy addressed the first Conference of the Institute for Hiatorical Review, and since 1980 has been a member of this Journal's Editorial Advisory Committee. Thought Crime' in Germany Walendy is not the only person who is in a German prison for expressing forbidden historical views. In June 1996 an additional 20 months was added to his prison term because he had organized a public meeting in September 1990 at which David Irving had spoken, and because he had distributed revisionist books.
Offenders are liable to fines and up to five years imprisonment.
Noteworthy is the fact that German law applies only to the Third Reich regime and era. Dec. 1995 Journal, pp. Udo Walendy in his office Index 1. Holocaust Skeptics Under Growing Attack in Switzerland 3. A Dangerous Guilt Complex 4.