Background
GUDENUS, John was born on November 23, 1940 in Vienna.
GUDENUS, John was born on November 23, 1940 in Vienna.
Military academy, 1962-1965. University of Vienna, Master of Arts. Social and Economic Science, 1972.
In 2006, Gudenus received a one-year suspended sentence for breaking the Verbotsgesetz, Austria"s laws against denying or diminishing the Holocaust. Gudenus had suggested that it was necessary to verify the existence of gas chambers in Nazi Germany and later remarked that there had been gas chambers in Poland but not in Germany. Austria"s Der Standard newspaper argued that these two remarks were "cynical and humiliating", and show contempt for the Verbotsgesetz.