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Dear Legislator of the German Federal Republic,

We hereby request you to revoke the provisions of the Strafgesetzbuch whereby the praising, playing down or denying of violent crimes committed by the National Socialist regime constitutes a punishable criminal offense, as well as any other provisions whereby the dissemination of untruths in support of an extremist political line may be subject to criminal punishment.

We are of the opinion that such utterances should not be sanctioned by criminal prosecution. As the distinguished legal scholar Mr. Baumann of the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift wrote in 1994:

"Allgemein bekannte geschichtliche Tatsachen zu leugnen kann keine Strafe verdienen. Wer etwa behauptet, Deutschland habe am 1. Weltkrieg nicht teilgenommen, oder Adenauer habe 333 bei Issus mitgewirkt, ist durch seine Dummheit genug bestraft. Gleiches muss fur die Leugnung der Scheusslichkeiten und Verbrechen der jungsten deutschen Vergangenheit gelten."

Source of quote:
Brigitte Bailer-Galanda/Wolfgang Benz/Wolfgang Neugebauer (Hrg.), Die Auschwitzleugner, 1996 Elefanten Press, Berlin, page 261.

Translation:

"Denial of generally known historical facts should not be punishable. For those who maintain, for instance, that Germany did not take part in World War I or that Adenauer fought at Issus in 333, their own stupidity is punishment enough. The same should apply to the denial of the horrors and crimes of the recent German past."

We are of the opinion that, however disgusting and offensive to certain people the utterance of such propagandistic untruths may be, a democratic constitutional state should rely on prevailing over them on the free marketplace of ideas. The means to keep the discontented in our societies from being taken in by extremist hate speech should be education and information, not criminal prosecution.

Sincerely Yours,

1. Roberto Muehlenkamp, Lisbon, Portugal