An attorney who was supposed to defend a prominent Holocaust denier instead found herself headed to a German jail in January after calling the extermination of Jews during World War II “the biggest lie in world history.”

Sylvia Stolz, known for her courtroom antics, was convicted of inciting racial hatred and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. She also was forbidden to practice law for five years. (Unlike in the United States, Holocaust denial is a crime in many European countries, including Germany.)

Stolz’s remarks came during the 2006 trial of Ernst Zundel, 69. The German-born Zundel, a publisher of Holocaust revisionist materials, lived in Canada for many years before he was deported to Germany.

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Source: www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=929
Intelligence Report, Summer 2008