The World - News from May 15, 1988

A Canadian publisher convicted in a retrial of maliciously publishing statements denying that the Holocaust took place was sentenced to nine months in jail. Ernst Zundel, 49, arrived at the district courthouse in Toronto bearing a small coffin inscribed with the words “Free Speech is Dead.” The West German immigrant, who operates Samisdat Publishers in Toronto, won his first appeal and was granted a new trial that ended in the second conviction. He was charged with publishing a booklet--which he did not write--that denies accounts of Nazis exterminating Jews in World War II prison camps.