MANNHEIM, GERMANY - The trial in Germany of a neo-Nazi whose U.S. website has glorified dictator Adolf Hitler and heaped abuse on Jews came to a halt Tuesday only hours after it began, with defence lawyers for Ernst Zuendel, 66, accusing the judge of bias.
Zuendel, who has lived in North America for most of his life, is accused of denying the Holocaust.
Presiding judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen of the state court in Mannheim, southwestern Germany threw a prominent German far-right lawyer, Horst Mahler, out of court on the grounds that he had been disbarred. Mahler moved under protest to the public gallery.
A second lawyer, Sylvia Stolz, was denied state legal-aid funds. The judge said she had herself incited hatred towards Jews in a 100- page court filing that sought to have the case dropped.
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