Belgium: Politician Roeland Raes sentenced for alleged 'holocaust denial'

English subtitles

The crime: Expressed doubt about the authenticity of Anne Frank's diary, and the extent and the systematic nature of certain aspects of what is popularly known as 'the holocaust'.

The now former senator from the Flemish Nationalist party 'Vlaams Blok', Roeland Raes, had to consider statements he had voiced during a TV-broadcast by the Dutch TV-station NCRV in the program 'Network' in 2001, in a Court of Appeal in the Belgian Capital Brussels.

Expressed doubts

On this particular occasion the former Vice-President of Vlaams Blok had expressed doubts about the veracity of the famous novel 'The Diary of Anne Frank', and the extent ofand in how far certain aspects of the so called 'holocaust' were to be classified as 'systematical'. This resulted in a conviction for what is popularly called 'holocaust denial' , in Belgium referred to as 'negotianism'.

More at: http://blog.balder.org/?p=1004

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• Roeland Raes
• Vlaams Blok
• Vlaams Belang
• holocaust
• shoa
• Belgium
• Flanders
• holocaust denial
• Anne Frank
• revisionism
• censorship
• persecution
• dissidents
• thought crime

[junderson]

Most people who've studied the subject know that at the least it was substantially edited and rewritten by her father, he even admits that although very inconsistently as to how much. Know also her father was convicted of fraud and embezzlement before the war.

The ball point pen controversy was just small notations in the margins.

How odd that people are thrown in jail for excersizing their freedom of speech about someone's diary whose freedom was horrifically stolen?

Can't we learn?

[baelthedemon]

Speak openly about this.. In bars in stores in work...

Keep sreading and maybe our children might have the schoolbooks that have real history

[wolzek]

Why is it against the law to say the Diary of Anne Frank is a work of fiction (which it is)?