Gary Lauck

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Gerhard Rex "Gary" Lauck (born May 12, 1953 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA ) is an American neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier . He belongs to the group of neo-Nazis and history revisionists who reject the entire presentation of recent contemporary history research with regard to the Holocaust , World War II , its causes and backgrounds.

Life

Lauck, the son of parents of German origin, was born in a German residential area in Milwaukee. He became an admirer of Adolf Hitler and founded the NSDAP structural organization in Lincoln , Nebraska, at the age of 19 in 1972 , which campaigns for the re-admission of the NSDAP and the re-establishment of National Socialism in Germany.

In publications and at numerous events organized by right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi groups as well as temporarily via shortwave broadcasters from the USA, Gary Lauck and his like-minded fellow Mark Weber spread the thesis that the Holocaust could not have happened because not as many Jews as claimed ever were in the sphere of influence of the Third Reich .

As early as 1972 he was arrested in Germany in possession of thousands of swastika stickers and deported. In 1974 he sang the praises of Hitler in Hamburg and was banned from entering the country. In 1976 he failed again when trying to smuggle Nazi propaganda material into Germany, was arrested and deported again. On the occasion of a long-planned private visit to Denmark , Lauck was arrested in Roskilde on March 20, 1995 , because an arrest warrant had been in place in Germany since September 1994 . Lauck was later transferred to Germany from Danish provisional extradition detention.

The Hamburg Regional Court sentenced Lauck on 22 August 1996 in the first instance because of sedition and incitement to racial hatred ( § 130  of the Criminal Code ) and the dissemination of anti-constitutional propaganda of organizations ( § 86  of the Criminal Code) and because of the unconstitutional use of labels organizations ( § 86a  of the Criminal Code) to a term of imprisonment of four years without parole. Due to the extradition permit, which is limited in terms of time period and allegations, and in consideration of the short press statute of limitations, this judgment was based on the dispatch of six editions of the “NS Kampfrufs” from the USA, namely No. 107 to 112 in the period from April 1994 to February 1995 The court had not followed Lauck's view that as an American in the United States he could do what he thought was right under US law, since the dissemination of propaganda materials from unconstitutional organizations and writings denying the Holocaust only occurred in Germany , Austria and France is punishable. The appeal against the judgment was rejected in 1997 by the Federal Court of Justice . After serving his sentence, Lauck returned to the United States.

Gary Lauck is the fact known that he who later produced by him on behalf devotional of Nazism , reichskriegsflagge ships, swastikas, Nazi armbands with a large swastika on Orders, decorations and parts of uniforms on its website worldwide upon request. In addition, he sends out propaganda brochures and other advertising material, which is not punishable in the USA under local law.

Gary Lauck is part of the network of Holocaust deniers and is in contact with his former close associate, Mark Weber , who has been director of the California / USA-based Institute for Historical Review since 1995 .

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Web links

The websites of Gary Lauck are not linked in the German Wikipedia for legal reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arrest of Gary Lauck 1995. (Video) (Spiegel-TV Magazin, March 1995). In: YouTube. March 1995, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://archiv.jura.uni-saarland.de/Entscheidungen/pressem97/BGH/strafrecht/g_lauck.html Communication from the press office of the Federal Court of Justice of March 17, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Lauck, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauck, Gary Rex; Lauck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States