Holocaust denier jailed for three years

[Abcdxxxx]

They created these laws for the same reason they left the concentration camps in place. The type of denial we're talking about, isn't meant to stifle debate, so much as target any attempts to rewrite history to cast blame on innocent parties. Why is that such a concern? Because the revitionism actually started while the Holocaust was still underway, and it was a matter of holding people accountable, to the point where it had to be illegal to deny it when they went to round up the Nazis. So much of the Holocaust was as a result of the propaganda campaigns to begin with. Who would have ever thought Holocaust revitionism would be making it on to best sellers lists, or that Jews on University campuses would be harrassed by students wearing Swastika armbands in public ? So yeah, in places like Austria, it hits to close to home, and they consider that criminal behavior rather then free speech.

Now, let me try to explain it a different way. After WW2, Germany and the other Nazi States wanted to move on, start fresh and forget what had happened. They needed to reinvent themselves, and erase the past. The last thing they wanted was open discourse on the Holocaust or to even stay associated with it. You see, this wasn't for the sake of tolerance, or hurting a Jews feelings, they just did it because they were guilty, and needed to cope.