Asp is right about German media hardly covering the Zundel case. Anyway I think that the fishier part of this case is indeed the "kangaroo court" in Canada in all its suspicious circumstances and not so much the fact that denying the holocaust is a crime in Germany.
The bigger story behind all this is what Pierre mentioned, the dogmas of political correctness, which lead to nothing but screaming hysteria.
The holocaust topic
is a sensitive one in Germany, although you can discuss it pretty freely in a private atmosphere. However, if you are a politician or in any other way a person of public interest, it can be enough to kill you politically if someone says that a friend of a cousin of his friend had heard that some colleague from his company had heard that someone had said that some other guy had said that he had heard rumours about you denying the holocaust. Guillotine down, case closed.
Right now, the right to demonstrate is being narrowed in view of the possibilty that neo-nazis might hold a demonstration right next to Berlin's holocaust monument. Freedom of speech is on the verge of being attacked, too. We live in dangerous times when that hyteria I mentioned can win over the remaining bits of reason and open debate.
