Ingrid Rimland
Ingrid A. Rimland Zündel (22 May 1936 – 22 October 2017) was a writer of Black Sea German (Mennonite) descent.
Life
Born into a Russian-German Mennonite community in Ukraine she grew up trilingual (German, Russian and Ukrainian) in the Soviet Union. She wrote several novels based upon her own experiences growing up in Ukraine and as a refugee child during World War II. Her novel The Wanderers (1977), which won her the California Literature Medal Award for best fiction, traces the decimation of the pacifist Russian Mennonite community during the Russian Revolution, anarchy, famine, the Stalinist purges, escape from Ukraine, and eventual resettlement in the rain forests of Paraguay. She later moved the United States.
In 1994, she first met German Canadian Holohoax revisionist Ernst Zündel, at a Institute for Historical Review conference. Interviewed by Zündel on his television programs at the time, she said Adolf Hitler “brought into our colonies the values that we had always held dear, namely the family cohesion, the pride in race, which was part of my upbringing.” She founded his website Zundelsite.org from her home in California. In 2001, Zündel became her second husband.
Works
Her trilogy Lebensraum, was written after becoming a Holohoax revisionist in the 1990s. Around 2011, Rimland produced the film Off Your Knees, Germany!, which was about Ernst Zundel's Holohoax trials.
- Ernst Zündel – Sein Kampf für Deutschland, 2011
- Germany: Still Under Control of Foreign Powers, Veterans Today, 5 June 2011 (Archive II)
Further reading
- Bradley R. Smith: LEBENSRAUM! Ingrid Rimland’s Epic Trilogy, 1998
- Ernst Zundel interviews Ingrid Rimland 1998 (Film archive I; Film archive II)
- Michael Hoffman: Ingrid Rimland Zundel Has Passed Away, National Vanguard, 25 October 2017 (Archive)
