A state court in Mannheim  convicted Germar Rudolf of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

He denied the Holocaust by publishing a study claiming to prove that the Nazis did not gas Jews, and used the internet to distribute his theories

Rudolf was convicted in 1995 of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 14 months in prison, but then disappeared. He applied for political asylum in the United States in 2000, but was rejected and was deported in 2005 to serve the 1995 sentence.

He was charged again in April, 2006, with "systematically" denying or playing down the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews in documents and on the Internet, and of stirring anti-Semitic hatred.