‘Auschwitz Lie’ Bill Defeated in Germany’s Upper House
Germany’s upper house of Parliament threw out a government bill Friday for tougher anti-crime measures, including laws to counter neo-Nazi propaganda and to criminalize the so-called “Auschwitz Lie.”
The Bundesrat had called for elements in the bill aimed at fighting the far right to be separated from measures aimed at ordinary crime. But the government called that suggestion “totally absurd.”
The rejected bill would have made the “Auschwitz Lie”--denying that the Holocaust happened--a criminal offense and would have broadened the ban on the use of Nazi symbols in Germany.
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