Polish court acquits publisher of book with Holocaust denial
Historian Dariusz Ratajčak denied the existence of gas chambers in concentration camps, claiming that the poisonous gas Cyclone B was not used for mass murder of people, but only for disinfection, and prisoners died due to hard work, poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions.
The District Court of Czestochowa dropped the charges of denying Nazi crimes in Poland during World War II from the owner of the 3DOM publishing house Tomasz Stala, who published a book by Polish historian Dariusz Ratajcak, who questioned Nazi crimes against Jews in concentration camps of fascist Germany. This is reported by the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, concluding that from now on Rataychak's book "Dangerous Topics" can be freely printed and distributed in Poland.
In his book, the Polish historian denied the existence of gas chambers in concentration camps, claiming that the poisonous gas Cyclone B was not used for mass murder of people, but only for disinfection purposes, and prisoners died as a result of hard work, poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions, after which the bodies of the dead were burned in ovens.
The book was first published in Poland in 1999 and caused a wave of criticism, after which Ratajczak was fired from the University of Opole, where he taught. Rataychak died in 2010.
Copies of his book were found in the 3DOM publishing house a year ago, when the internal security agency was searched there. At the same time, a case was opened against Tomasz Stal for the denial of Nazi crimes. The plaintiff was the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
The court motivated the decision to remove the charges against the book publisher by the fact that Stal only published a book by the historian, and did not write it, Rzeczpospolita points out.
Source: https://stmegi.com/posts/124731/polskiy-sud-opravdal-izdatelya-knigi-s-otritsaniem-kholokosta/