John Gudenus
- Birth Date:
- 23.11.1940
- Death date:
- 15.09.2016
- Length of life:
- 75
- Days since birth:
- 30495
- Years since birth:
- 83
- Days since death:
- 2805
- Years since death:
- 7
- Extra names:
- John Gudenus
- Categories:
- Politician
- Nationality:
- austrian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
John Gudenus (23 November 1940 in Vienna - 15 September 2016) was an Austrian retired member of the Federal Council of Austria on a free mandate (formerly as a member of the Freedom Party of Austria), and colonel of the Austrian Bundesheer.
In 2006, Gudenus received a one-year suspended sentence for breaking the Verbotsgesetz, Austria's laws against denying or diminishing the Holocaust. Gudenus had suggested that it was necessary to verify the existence of gas chambers in Nazi Germany and later remarked that there had been gas chambers in Poland but not in Germany.
Austria's Der Standard newspaper argued that these two remarks were "cynical and humiliating", and show contempt for the Verbotsgesetz.
Source: wikipedia.org
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