 Zündel asked for the inception of an expert's commission to examine the Holocaust.The judge in his emotional closing speech called Zündel a """" ("well-poisoner and arsonist, an admirer of this human-despising barbarian Adolf Hitler, of whom he rambles on with brash impertinence").Holocaust deniers used Zündel trials to claim that freedom of speech was impaired in Germany as that it depended on the ideology of the speaker.