page_title: Neo-Nazism in Canada
section_title: Ernst Zündel
hierarchical_section_title: Neo-Nazism in Canada / Influential leaders / Ernst Zündel
caption_attribution_description: English: The seated man is Ernst Zündel. Lemire has stated that the photo was taken in 1992 on the day of Zundel's legal victory in R. v. Zundel.
context_page_description: Neo-Nazism is the post World War II ideology that promotes white supremacy and specifically antisemitism. In Canada, neo-Nazism has existed as a branch of the far-right and has been a source of considerable controversy during the last 50 years.
context_section_description: Ernst Zündel (April 24, 1939 - August 5, 2017) was born in Germany in 1939. At age 19, he moved to Canada where he worked as a photographer and artist. He quickly became Canada's leading “Holocaust-denial propagandist.” In the late 1970s he started using Samisdat Publishers to produce and distribute Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda. Court cases followed and Zündel was sentenced to serve 15 months of jail time for publishing lies about the Holocaust. The publicity made Zündel an even more influential figure among neo-Nazi organizations and he used his newfound influence to help further white supremacist movements. Zündel applied for Canadian citizenship twice. During his second attempt in 1994, a long series of hearings and court cases followed, but he was never issued Canadian citizenship. In 2001 Zündel moved to the United States, but was deported back to Canada for Visa violations in 2003. He was shortly thereafter deported to Germany in 2005 where he was taken into custody and arrested for inciting racial hatred. Released from prison on March 1, 2010, Ernst Zündel was reminded that he was not welcome in Canada and is believed to be living with relatives in Bad Wildbad, Germany. He died in Germany in 2017.
caption: Ernst Zündel in 1992
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