DAVID IRVING ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH HOLOCAUST DENIAL

Historian Charged With Denying Holocaust - Susanna Loof (AP/Washington Post)
British historian David Irving, arrested in Nov. 11, was charged Tuesday in Vienna with violating an Austrian law that makes Holocaust denial a crime. Irving is accused of giving two speeches in 1989 in which he denied the existence of Nazi gas chambers during World War II, prosecutor Otto Schneider said. Irving once sued Deborah Lipstadt, a Holocaust expert, for libel for calling him a Holocaust denier. The British court handling the case in 2000 declared that Irving could be labeled as such, and that he was anti-Semitic, racist, and misrepresented historical information.

See also Denial of the Holocaust and Immoral Equivalence - Interview with Deborah Lipstadt (JCPA)