Hoffmann and The Extreme Right
Shortly after he had retired Hoffmann took part as an expert in a trial against the extremist Grabert-Publishing-company. In the process he granted some degree of respectability to the book "Dissecting the Holocaust", which had been published by the Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf. Still, the court found that phrases such as "supposed", "presumed", "victim of the Jews", "imputed forethought", "furious phantasies", denied the Holocaust and therefore qualified as the crime of race persecution. On June 15, 1996, judge Burkhardt Stein from Tübingen County Court ordered the confiscation and incineration of all books Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte and the destruction of all means for manufacturing them. Later the certificate written by Hoffmann was published in Rudolf's magazine Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung.
In the same year Hoffmann published Wartime bombings of neutral Switzerland in the Holocaust-denying Journal of Historical Review.
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