The sections of the repressive memory laws have often prevented open racism or anti-Semitism from becoming a common, normal and tolerated part of our public discourse. Cases of prosecution under Section 405 most often concerned public denial of the Holocaust, questioning of Nazi concentration camps (e.g. the camp in Lety u Písek) or, more recently, approval of war crimes and aggression. Sections 403 and 404 led to the punishment of symbolism (sw…
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The sections of the repressive memory laws have often prevented open racism or anti-Semitism from becoming a common, normal and tolerated part of our public discourse. Cases of prosecution under Section 405 most often concerned public denial of the Holocaust, questioning of Nazi concentration camps (e.g. the camp in Lety u Písek) or, more recently, approval of war crimes and aggression. Sections 403 and 404 led to the punishment of symbolism (sw…