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Zündel emigrated to Canada from West Germany when he was 19 in order to avoid being drafted by the German military. During the 1960s he came under the tutelage of Canadian fascist Adrien Arcand.
In 1968 he ran in that year's Liberal Party of Canada leadership conventionIn Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to hold an election for leader due to a vacancy or a serious challenge to the incumbent leader. Unlike in the United States, where political conventions are he using it as a platform to allege that Canadian society was replete with anti-German attitudes . He received no votes and came in last place, losing to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Professionally, Zundel worked as a graphic artist and printer, on several occasions he was commissioned to illustrate covers for Maclean's MagazineMaclean's Magazine is Canada's leading weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt. John Bayne Maclean. The 43-year-old trade magazine publisher purchased an advertising agency's in-house business journal — along wit. His views on Nazismswastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on the Prussian co and Jews were not well known in the 1960s and 1970s and he initially published his views under the pseudonym Christof Friedrich.
In the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends and 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends Zündel operated a small pressDun Emer Press in 1903 with Elizabeth Yeats working the hand press Small press is a term often used to describe publishers who typically specialize in genre fiction, or limited edition books or magazines. It contrasts with vanity press, which usually impl publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood aka Richard Verrall (a British neo-Nazi leader) as well as booklets claiming that UFOs were actually Nazi secret weapon s operated from secret Nazi military bases in Antarctica.
In 1985 he was criminally charged for "disseminating and publishing material denying the Holocaust." Zündel's trial was notable for its reliance on testimony from individuals such as David Irving and Fred A. Leuchter, a self-styled expert in gas chambers whose testimony was dismissed due to his lack of any engineering credentials. Zündel was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by an Ontario court but in 1991 his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada when the law he had been charged under, reporting false news, was ruled unconstitutional.
In the late 1990s he was under investigation by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for promoting hatred against Jews via his website when he left Canada for Tennessee vowing never to return.
In 2003, Zündel was arrested in the United States for violating that country's immigration rules. He was deported to Canada despite the fact that he is a German citizen and his permanent residency status in Canada had expired due to his prolonged absence from the country.
Zündel remains in detention in Canada as a security threat due to his alleged links with violent neo-Nazi groups. He is resisting deportation to Germany where he is wanted for hate crimes and is seeking refugee status in Canada.
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