Application Number 35285/16 European Court of Human Rights The case concerned Nix’s conviction for posting a picture on his blog in 2014 of the former SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, in SS uniform wearing a swastika armband. In January 2015, the Munich District Court convicted Nix of, among other things, using symbols of unconstitutional organizations after […]
Application Number 12194/86 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant had prepared and disseminated various publications in the framework of an organization allegedly attempting to reinstitute the National Socialist Party. He was sentenced to over three years in prison for preparing and disseminating material of an unconstitutional organization. The Commission relied on […]
Application Number 7485/03 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant sent a letter to a professor following an article the latter published regarding the culpability of the Nazi Party and the intention of Hitler to murder the Jews. The applicant wrote a letter to him saying that these statements were false and was subsequently convicted […]
Application Number 64496/17 European Court of Human Rights A Bishop gave an interview to a Swedish television programme where he alleged that six million Jews were not gassed and that there were no gas chambers. Der Spiegel published an article in which the applicant’s statements about the existence of the gas chambers during the Nazi […]
Application Number 25096/94 European Commission of Human Rights The applicant wrote several publications in which he argued that the gas chambers during the Nazi regime did not exist and that groups such as asylum seekers constituted a source of problems for Germany. The EComHR found that his application was manifestly ill-founded on the grounds of […]
Application Number 55225/14 European Court of Human Rights The applicant, a politician of the National Democratic Party of Germany, made statements on the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, denying the Holocaust. He was convicted for denying the systematic, racially motivated, mass extermination of the Jews carried out at Auschwitz during the Third Reich. The ECtHR […]