Perspective: Historian Denied Holocaust Horror ; with the Authorities Having Finally Caught Up with David Irving, Martha Linden Looks Back at the Life of the Infamous Holocaust- Denier

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Controversial historian David Irving could have faced up to ten years in prison for denying the Holocaust under Austrian legislation which is said to be the harshest in the world in dealing with such an offence.

Prosecutors filed charges against him under the 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism, and criminalising the "public denial, belittling, or justification of National Socialist crimes".

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Perspective: Historian Denied Holocaust Horror ; with the Authorities Having Finally Caught Up with David Irving, Martha Linden Looks Back at the Life of the Infamous Holocaust- Denier

The 67-year-old academic was arrested by motorway police in Austria last year on a tip-off while on his way to deliver a speech on the Second World War to a right-wing stude...

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