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Ernst Zündel

1939 - 2017

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Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (German: [ˈtsʏndl̩]; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature. He was jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, for overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Zündel has received more than 870,742 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ernst Zündel is the 209th most popular extremist (down from 181st in 2019), the 4,302nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,604th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ernst Zündel ranks 209 out of 283Before him are Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Irmgard Möller, Abdullah Çatlı, Herbert Mullin, Axeman of New Orleans, and John Bodkin Adams. After him are Christopher Scarver, William Bonin, Dawood Ibrahim, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, and Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ernst Zündel ranks 353Before him are Günther Herrmann, John Hopcroft, Ernie Terrell, Adrienne Clarkson, Theo Waigel, and Brigitte Fassbaender. After him are István Kozma, Michael J. Pollard, Trịnh Công Sơn, James Mancham, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and László Kovács. Among people deceased in 2017, Ernst Zündel ranks 317Before him are Cuthbert Sebastian, Robert Alt, Robert Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel, Armando Calderón Sol, and Lola Albright. After him are Pierluigi Chicca, William Lombardy, James Mancham, Türkân Akyol, Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, and Nicky Hayden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Zündel ranks 4,302 out of 7,253Before him are John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1584), Alfred Keller (1882), Felix Graf von Bothmer (1852), Brigitte Fassbaender (1939), Joachim Fuchsberger (1927), and Gustav Mie (1868). After him are Princess Leopoldine of Baden (1837), Josef Gauchel (1916), Brigitte Horney (1911), Eberhard Diepgen (1941), Julius Rietz (1812), and Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834).

Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Ernst Zündel ranks 21Before him are Therese Brandl (1902), Eugen Weidmann (1908), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss (1951), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), and Irmgard Möller (1947).