 The decision to confiscate the book was upheld by the Federal Court of Justice in 1983.Following this, the University of Göttingen instituted proceedings against Stäglich in order to formally discredit the doctoral degree he had received there in 1951, ironically on the basis of a law promulgated during the Hitler era.Eckhard Jesse, a German political scientist and authority on radical politics, has defended the publication of the book "The Auschwitz Myth".