A Swiss court has ordered a journalist to pay a fine of $230 for writing that he though an officer was a “sympathizer of Nazism” and that he did not support her possible promotion to the rank of major.
The officer, Mariette Paschoud, had filed a complaint in response to the 1991 article, published in the daily newspaper Blick, which is based in Zurich.
The court ruled that even though Paschoud supports Nazi arguments that question the existence of gas chambers, she does not question the existence of concentration camps or the murder of millions in those camps. In part, because Paschoud did question aspects of the Holocaust, the court did not order the journalist to pay the $3,600 fine she requested.
Paschoud has not been promoted to major.
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