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Originally Posted by Sly
I once heard that in Germany if you deny the Holocaust you can get jail time. Is this true? Then I was just reading about this EU bill proposed by France that anyone who denies that the Armenian slaughter was an all out genocide will face prison as well. Sure, denying the Holocaust is pretty ignorant, but if laws are going to start penalizing stupidity I'm sure we could all come up with a pretty big list of stupididities to punish.
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You are right so far. There are three regulations in the German criminal code. §§ 86, 86a and 133 III StGB (StGB is criminal code). The latter penalizes denying of the holocaust.
I personally do not support those laws, neither in Germany nor anywhere else.
National socialism can not be prevented by those laws. Look at the UK. You can buy all Nazi material at the London war museum. And I can not recognize any problems so far.
National socialism is caused by other problems. Unemployment is one reason, there are many others for sure.
So those laws are pretty much stupid, but itīs a cheap way for politicians to show they are trying to fight national socialism.
Itīs similar to porn laws, btw. the Erfurt school massacre for example caused a law in Germany which forces German webmasters to use this adult verification system where the surfer has to register by regular mail before he can get access to the online content.
I can not see any valid reason how this will prevent massacres as mentioned above.