Court Upholds Jail Term for Ex-Nazi, 81
A German appeals court Thursday upheld the jail sentence of an 81-year-old ex-Nazi general convicted of publishing pamphlets claiming the Holocaust was fabricated by Jews.
Otto-Ernst Remer, renowned for loyalty to Adolf Hitler, will begin serving the 22-month sentence in a few weeks, said prosecutor Walter Rupprecht in the Bavarian city of Schweinfurt.
Remer had repeatedly claimed in a pamphlet called Dispatch, popular with neo-Nazis, that the Allies and Jews lied about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews to get reparations from Germany.
The Federal High Court in Karlsruhe upheld the October, 1992, sentence he received when Schweinfurt regional court convicted him for inciting the public and spreading racial hatred.
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