Udo Walendy

Udo Walendy (21 January 1927 – 17 November 2022) was a German Holocaust denier.

Like Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, he disputed Germany's guilt for the Second World War.

Walendy was born in Berlin on 21 January 1927.

Towards the end of the war Walendy was drafted first into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (auxiliary force), then the 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.

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 conviction and imprisonment for 15 months for publicly questioning the Holocaust.

He maintained close contact with the Belgian revisionist organisation Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO).

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:

Walendy was charged with criminal activity several times, including under Germany's Volksverhetzung law (incitement to hatred).

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.