A court in Mannheim sentenced Ernst Zündel, left, a German-born, internationally known neo-Nazi and distributor of anti-Semitic literature, to five years in prison for inciting racial hatred and denying that the Nazis killed millions of Jews. It was the maximum sentence for Holocaust denial under German law. The German authorities arrested Mr. Zündel, 67, in 2005, when he was deported by Canada after a long court battle there. He had lived in Canada for several decades. German prosecutors were able to seek his extradition on the ground that a Web site he ran was accessible in Germany.
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