The Slave Ship

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-16-2014 08:13 AM)HerbS Wrote:  My friends from Germany[Nueremburg-sp]admit the history of Germany[Hitler+WW2].

If they didn't they could face imprisonment for up to five years. Holocaust denial is not just a moral, but also a legal crime.

§ 130 "Public incitement" in German criminal law reads:
(...)(3) Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or belittles an act committed under the rule of National Socialism...in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine.
(4) Whoever publicly or in a meeting disturbs the public peace in a manner that assaults the human dignity of the victims by approving of, denying or rendering harmless the violent and arbitrary National Socialist rule shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine. (...)

There are some more relevant sections, and in addition, § 86a outlaws various symbols of "unconstitutional organisations", such as the Swastika and the SS runes.

Similar laws exist in several other European countries, and many of these also ban elements associated with Nazism, such as Nazi symbols.

Mike and Linda, perhaps I read too many Asterix comics in my youth, but the first that would come to my mind about slavery was the Romans & Co. #2 was the British slave trade, and #3, I admit, the USA/CW.