Richard Verrall - Written Work

Written Work

He is best known today for his pamphlet (under the assumed name of Richard Harwood) Did Six Million Really Die?, a Holocaust denial pamphlet which was the subject of the criminal action brought against its Canadian-based publisher Ernst Zündel. Zündel was ultimately acquitted on the basis that the crime with which he was charged was unconstitutional, but not before the trial court had found the pamphlet to be composed of fabrications and distortions: the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the book "misrepresented the work of historians, misquoted witnesses, fabricated evidence, and cited non-existent authorities."

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