Hans Schmidt (Waffen-SS)

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Hans Schmidt (April 24, 1927 - May 30, 2010) was a German and naturalized American citizen, former member of the Waffen-SS, and founder of the German-American National Political Action Committee (GAN-PAC). He was primarily known for his promotion of Antisemitism, Holocaust denial and National Socialism. Schmidt was arrested in Germany on hate charges in 1995, but avoided standing trial by returning to the USA while released on bail.^[1]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Organizations 2.1 GAN-PAC 2.2 GIEA 3 Arrest 4 Quotations 5 References

Early life

Schmidt was born on April 24, 1927, in Völklingen, a town in the then League of Nations mandate of the Saar Basin between Germany and France. During the Nazi Rule, he was a member of the Hitler Youth, and, by his own account,^[2] joined the Waffen SS at the age of 18, and served as a corporal in the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, originally the personal bodyguard regiment of Adolf Hitler, later a Panzer division of the Waffen-SS. Schmidt was wounded twice and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He arrived in the United States in 1949.

Organizations

GAN-PAC

In 1983, Schmidt founded the German-American National Political Action Committee (GAN-PAC), which published the GANPAC Brief in English and the USA-Bericht in German. GAN-PAC was described as “pretending to represent the 52 million Americans of German decent” by the German magazine Der Spiegel,^[3] as “openly anti-Semitic” by the New York Times,^[4] and as “virulently anti-Semitic” by the Anti-Defamation League.^[5] GAN-PAC was also accused of promoting Holocaust denial.^[6]

From 1983 till 1985, GAN-PAC raised about $55,000 in contributions,^[7] but, unlike other Political Action Committees, did not make any financial contributions until the late 1980s, when it began donating money to the election campaigns of conservative Republican candidates.^[4] It also made a contribution to a Democrat who was running against a Jewish Republican candidate.^[8]

The Santa Monica offices of GAN-PAC were fire bombed in 1985, causing $50,000 in damage. Schmidt claimed the Jewish Defense League carried out the attack, a claim the JDL rejected.^[9]

GIEA

Schmidt also founded the German-American Information and Education Association (GIEA), which is presided by E. Stanley Rittenhouse, a known Antisemite,^[1] who “served as chief legislative representative for Liberty Lobby,^[10] a far right organization founded by Willis Carto, whom the Anti-Defamation League calls “perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the United States”.^[11]

Arrest

On August 9, 1995^[12] Schmidt was arrested at the Frankfurt airport by German authorities after copies of his newsletter, USA-Bericht were discovered. He was charged with “incitement to hate” (Volksverhetzung in German) as a result of a letter he had sent to a German state legislator. Schmidt claimed the U.S. embassy provided false information to Germany to persecute him. Due to poor health, Schmidt was released on bail in January 1996. He fled Germany and returned to the USA to avoid further prosecution.^[13] He wrote a book about this experience, titled “Jailed in “Democratic” Germany”.

Quotations

• In a postcard, GAN-PAC claimed, according to Susan Lee Pentlin, that “Jews were not gassed by the Nazis ... the numbers and reports of predetermined extermination are greatly exaggerated by professional liars”.^[14]
• According to the German Verfassungsschutz, Schmidt, protected by US law, was very outspoken in his publications and cites an example from “The Jewish Question in the 20th century in America”: “In the last 200 years, European observers have noted that the Jews are not interested in ‘Equality of the Races’ but in destroying the white Race.”^[15]
• The 1996 annual report of the Verfassungsschutz of Niedersachsen, quotes from a USA-Bericht: “What I dislike most about Jews is their apparent deep dishonesty. (...) An outstanding example for this deep dishonesty of most of the Jews (...) is the constant denial of Jewish excessive power (...) (It is) of course indispensable that the Jews are pampered in Germany, just as in nature, it is a parasite′s due.”^[16]

References

Historical revisionism (negationism) Holocaust denial Proponents David Duke · Robert Faurisson · David Irving · Fred A. Leuchter · Carlo Mattogno · Oleg Platonov · Michèle Renouf · Germar Rudolf · Simon Sheppard · Fredrick Töben · Richard Verrall · Richard Williamson · Ernst Zündel Organisations Adelaide Institute · Institute for Historical Review Publications "Did Six Million Really Die?" · Leuchter report · Journal of Historical Review Conferences International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust · Bali Holocaust Conference Legal status Statute law (in Belgium · in France · in Germany)  · Case law (Lehideux and Isorni v. France · R. v. Zundel) · Treaties (Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime) Mainstream Criticism of Holocaust denial Subtopics Armenian Genocide denial  · Denial of the Holodomor · Bosniak Genocide denial  · Nanking Massacre denial  · Rwandan Genocide denial

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Name	Schmidt, Hans
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Date of birth	1927-04-24
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Date of death	2010-05-30
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