Siegfried Verbeke

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Siegfried Verbeke (born June 21, 1941 ) is a Belgian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier .

Life

Verbeke has been repeatedly convicted of Holocaust denial in books, brochures and on websites. Against him u. a. investigated by the criminal authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany , the Netherlands and Belgium . Verbeke was financially supported by the right-wing extremist movement Voorpost supported.

Verbeke is, together with his brother Herbert Verbeke , a member of the self-established foundation Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO for short), he was also a member of the Vlaamse Militanten Orde (VMO for short), which was banned in 1981. The brothers of this order published pseudoscientific , revisionist writings.

In 1991, Verbeke published the book Het Dagboek van Anne Frank: een kritische benadering ("The Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach"), in which he questioned the authenticity of the diary . He claims, among other things, that Otto Frank wrote the diary after the war. B. the writing style is too mature for a young woman and the ballpoint pen was only invented after 1945. From 1992 to 1993 the Anne Frank Foundation took legal action against Verbeke, the allegation of forgery was not tenable in court. On April 27, 2000, the Amsterdam Court of Justice banned Verbeke from distributing his book in the Netherlands.

Until 1995 Verbeke was a member of the right-wing extremist Flemish party Vlaams Blok .

Verbeke was editor-in-chief of the Vierteljahreshefte für free historical research (VffG) until issue 2/98 , but then gave up this post in favor of Germar Rudolf , probably to protect against further measures by the Belgian police. From this point on, all correspondence was to be sent to a post office box for Germar Rudolf in England .

On September 9, 2003, Verbeke and his brother were sentenced to one year probation by the criminal court in Antwerp for distributing the brochure Minimizing the Nazi genocide against the Jews .

The district court in Mannheim issued an international arrest warrant against him in November 2004 due to the dissemination of holocaust-denying writings by the VHO. Verbeke was arrested by the Belgian police on November 26, 2004, but not extradited to Germany and released a short time later, as criminal proceedings against him were also being carried out in Belgium. In summer 2005, Verbeke but was due to the same arrest warrant in Amsterdam at the airport Schiphol arrested by Dutch police and delivered in the fall to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he held until May 2006 detention was sitting. In October the Mannheim Regional Court refused to open the main proceedings and revoked the arrest warrant.

In 2008, Verbeke was fined € 25,000 in Belgium for Holocaust denial .

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  1. ↑ a b Extreem right-wing militants veroordeeld wegens holocaustontkenning. Blokbuster from June 16, 2008
  2. ↑ Judgment of the Amsterdam Court of Justice of April 27, 2000

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SURNAME Verbeke, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1941