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Ingrid Rimland

Ingrid Rimland (born 1936) is a German-American neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier and the wife of Ernst Zündel.

Born in the Ukraine to a Mennonite family descended from nineteenth century German settlers, her family left the Soviet Union in 1943 following the retreating German Army as it was beaten back by the Red Army during World War II. Her family did not remain in Germany, however, and settled in Paraguay where she later married and had children. She immigrated to Canada in 1960 and then to the United States in 1967 where she obtained a doctorate in education specialising in children with special needs.

Rimland has been the ostensible webmaster of the Zündelsite, a website promoting the views of Holcaust denier Ernst Zundel, since 1995. It has been alleged that Zundel himself has been the true operator of the site for most of its existence but relied on it being operated in Rimland's name in order to evade Canada's anti-hate speech laws since Zundel was living in Canada at the time of the site's debut.

From 1996 until the end of 2004, Rimland sent out a daily email message she called a "Z-gram" in order to promote Zundel's views and provide commentary on current events.

She has also writen a fictional triology titled Lebensraum which tells the story of Ukrainians of German descent who "fight to preserve their own race" and in which characters express anti-Semitic views. Another of her novels, The Wanderers, depicts the German Army as "liberators" during their invasion of the Soviet Union.

After several years of collaboration, Rimland and Zündel married in January 2000 and settled in Tennessee, Rimland moving there from California and Zündel from Toronto. Zündel was deported from the United States in early 2003 after he failed to renew his visa and had been detained in Canada by the Canadian government until it deported him to Germany on March 12005. Rimland has spent most of her time since her husband's arrest campaigning for his release and raising money for his legal defence.

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