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{{Short description|German Holocaust denier (1927–2022)}}

'''Udo Walendy''' (born [[21 January]] [[1927]] in [[Berlin]]) is a German [[political scientist]]. He is a prominent [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]] and also disputes [[Germany]]'s guilt for the [[Second World War]].

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{{Infobox person

| name = Udo Walendy

| birth_name = Udo Walendy

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1927|01|21}}

| birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[Province of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]], [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]]

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2022|11|17|1927|01|21}}

| death_place = Berlin, Germany

| nationality = German

| occupation = Author, soldier, holocaust denier

| criminal_status = Incitement to hatred

}}

'''Udo Walendy''' (21 January 1927 – 17 November 2022)<ref>[https://www.endstation-rechts.de/news/holocaust-leugner-verstorben-0 Holocaust-Leugner verstorben] {{in lang|de}}</ref> was a German [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]]. Like [[Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof]], he disputed Germany's guilt for the [[Second World War]].<ref name=atkins />

== Life ==

== Life ==

Towards the end of the war Walendy was drafted first into the ''[[Reichsarbeitsdienst]]'' (auxiliary force), then as a ''[[Luftwaffenhelfer]]'' ([[child soldier]] in the air force) and finally into the regular ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' (the German military). He completed his ''[[Abitur]]'' ([[secondary education]]) in 1946 and then went to [[journalism school]] in [[Aachen]]. From 1950 to 1956 he studied political science at the Hochschule für Politik in [[West Berlin]], where he received his diploma.

Walendy was born in [[Berlin]] on 21 January 1927.<ref name=atkins>{{cite book |last=Atkins |first=Stephen E. |author-link=Stephen E. Atkins |title=Holocaust denial as an international movement |year=2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-34538-8 |pages=108–109 }} {{Google books|M9Uj6u6b-ZIC|Preview}}.</ref>

Towards the end of the war Walendy was drafted first into the ''[[Reichsarbeitsdienst]]'' (auxiliary force), then as athe ''[[Luftwaffenhelfer]]'' ([[child soldier]] in the air force) and finally into the regular ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' (the German military). He completed his ''[[Abitur]]'' ([[secondary education]]) in 1946 and then went to [[journalism school]] in [[Aachen]]. From 1950 to 1956 he studied political science at the Hochschule für Politik in [[West Berlin]], where he received his diploma.<ref name=atkins />

Afterwards he worked as the director of a "[[folk high school]]" in [[Herford]] and as the business leader of an employers' association in [[Bielefeld]]. In 1965 he went independent and founded the ''Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung'' ("Publishing House for Folklore and Contemporary Historical Research") in [[Vlotho]]. (In 1999 ownership of the publishing house was transferred to his wife, since Walendy was barred from directing it due to his criminal convictions.) He maintains close contact with the Belgian revisionist organisation [[Vrij Historisch Onderzoek]] (VHO) and after his release from prison he was from 1997 state chairman of the far-right [[NPD]] party for [[North Rhine-Westphalia]].

Afterwards he worked as the director of a "[[folk high school]]" in [[Herford]] and as the business leader of an employers' association in [[Bielefeld]]. In 1965 he went independent and founded the ''Verlag für Volkstum und Zeitgeschichtsforschung'' ("Publishing House for Folklore and Contemporary Historical Research") in [[Vlotho]].<ref name=atkins /> (In 1999 ownership of the publishing house was transferred to his wife, since Walendy was barred from directing it due to his criminalconviction convictionsand imprisonment for 15 months for publicly questioning [[the Holocaust]].) He maintainsmaintained close contact with the Belgian revisionist organisation [[Vrij Historisch Onderzoek]] (VHO).<ref andname=atkins after his release from prison he was from 1997 state chairman of the far-right [[NPD]] party for [[North Rhine-Westphalia]]./>

== Activity as author and publisher ==

== Activity as author and publisher ==

Besides other works Walendy oversaw the publication of numerous materials in which the Holocaust was denied and the [[Third Reich]] was generally presented in a positive light. Among others these include:

* As early as 1964 he published his own book, ''Wahrheit für Deutschland – Die Schuldfrage des Zweiten Weltkriegs''<ref name=atkins /> (''Truth for Germany -– The Question of Guilt for the Second World War''), which in 1979 was listed by Germany's [[Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien|Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons]] as material that could not be publicly advertised or given to young readers, due to the version it presented of the events that led to World War II. This restriction was lifted in 1994, after a long legal battle, on the grounds that Walendy's constitutional rights had been violated, since the federal constitutional court ruled that even a supposedly biased representation could be defended as an academic work. A renewed attempt to have the work listed was abandoned in 2001 due to a negative assessment of the chances of success in the event of another court case.

* Numerous copies of the historical revisionist magazine series ''Historische Tatsachen'',<ref>[http://www.h-ref.de/personen/walendy-udo/walendy-black.php Die Literatur der Auschwitzleugner: Udo Walendy, Historische Tatsachen Nr. 26] Holocaust-Referenz: Argumente gegen Auschwitzleugner. {{in lang|de}}</ref> which continues to be published by the Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO) in [[Flanders]]. Its very first edition from 1974 contains a German translation of [[Richard Verrall (political writer)|Richard Harwood]]'s Holocaust-denying booklet "[[Did Six Million Really Die?]]".

* The German translation of [[Arthur Butz]]'s book ''[[The Hoax of the Twentieth Century]]'',<ref name=atkins /> in which the author attempts to discredit the evidence for the Holocaust.

Walendy has beenwas charged numerouswith criminal activity several times, including under Germany's ''[[Volksverhetzung]]'' law (incitement to hatred),.<ref includingname=atkins twice being sent to jail without probation./>

On 1 September 2014, [[Germar Rudolf]]'s Castle Hill Publishers (UK) reprinted ''Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War'' in an updated expanded, and corrected second edition, as ''Who Started World War II: Truth for a War-Torn World'', which has also been translated anew from the German original.

==Source==

:''Much of this article is translated from the [[:de:Udo Walendy|German wikipedia article]] of March 2nd 2007''

==Written works==

[[Category:1927 births|Walendy, Udo]]

*Who Started World War II: Truth for a War-Torn World (an updated, expanded, newly translated and corrected edition of Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War), Castle Hill Publishers, 1 September 2014, {{ISBN|978-1591480723}}.

[[Category:People from Berlin|Walendy, Udo]]

*Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing Critique of ‘Truth’ and ‘Memory’ (contributor)

[[Category:Holocaust deniers|Walendy, Udo]]

*Forged War Crimes Malign the German Nation

[[Category:Living people|Walendy, Udo]]

*Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War (Wahrheit für Deutschland – Die Schuldfrage des Zweiten Weltkriegs), originally published in 1964. Reprint by the Barnes Review with original title from the translators’ file without any editing or changes in layout, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1937787202}}.

==Notes==

[[de:Udo Walendy]]

{{Reflist}}

:''Much of this article is translated from the [[:de:Udo Walendy|German wikipedia article]] of March2 2ndMarch 2007''

==External links==

*[http://nsl-archiv.com/Tontraeger/Reden/suche.php?text=walendy&submit=+Suche+ Original German mp3-speeches from Udo Walendy]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

*[http://www.h-ref.de/personen/walendy-udo/ Personen: Udo Walendy] Holocaust-Referenz: Argumente gegen Auschwitzleugner. {{in lang|de}}

*[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-44914420.html NPD: Raus aus dem Mief] ''[[Der Spiegel]]'', 29 November 1971. {{in lang|de}}

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