MANNHEIM, Germany — Ernst Zundel, a German Holocaust denier who lived in exile in Canada for nearly five decades, was released from prison Monday after serving a five-year sentence for inciting racial hatred, according to local reports.
Zundel, 69, lived in Canada from 1958 until 2005, when he was extradited to Germany to face charges of denying the Holocaust, a crime in that country.
He was sentenced in 2007 to five years in prison less time served.
While living in Canada, Zundel published a number of works questioning whether the slaughter of six million Jews at the hands of Nazi Germany had ever happened.
Zundel was convicted in 1985 of spreading false news in a booklet he published, Did Six Million Really Die?
A Supreme Court decision in 1992 found that the crime he was charged for was an unreasonable limit on freedom of expression, and overturned the conviction.
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