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Holocaust denier, David Irving, is thrown out of a Polish book convention for breaking anti-nazi laws Published on 20 May 2007 | Author MORRIS, Nick. British "historian" and convicted Holocaust denier, David Irving, has been thrown out of a Polish book fair due to the Nazi apologist nature of his writings. Organisers of a Polish book fair today asked Irving, who was jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, to leave the event. Irving had been scheduled to present his books at an event organised by British publisher Focal Point, said Grzegorz Guzowski, head of the Ars Polonia company, which...

Holocaust denier David Irving on Friday said Jews should ask themselves why they have been hated throughout history. "They [Jews] should ask themselves the question, 'Why have they been so hated for 3000 years that there has been pogrom after pogrom in country after country?', said Irving, speaking at a press conference he convened in England on Friday, a day after he was released from an Austrian prison. Irving, who was sentenced to three years in prison for denying the Holocaust, was released last week after his appeal was granted. Asked if he sees himself as anti-Semitic, Irving said, "No,...

A Muslim organisation said yesterday that one of its founders had made a "grave mistake" when he sent money and letters of support to the historian David Irving, jailed this year in Austria for Holocaust denial. Asghar Bukhari, a former chief executive of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as a civil liberties group, admitted sending a donation to help Irving fight a libel case in 2000. Mr Bukhari said he now realised that Irving held "despicable" views. He made the £60 donation on the basis of a "limited" number of articles he had seen because he...

It is easy to dislike David Irving and to wish him good riddance as the British writer/historian begins a three-year prison term in Austria for Holocaust denial. The challenge in these ultra-sensitive times is to let him and others like him speak freely even as we cover our ears. The latter option is the American way, a bit of grace we take for granted most days. In Austria, where it is illegal to deny the Holocaust, citizens also do not enjoy a First Amendment. Speak skeptically of certain histories there -- or in other countries where speech and thought are...

Vienna - Austrian prosecutors said Wednesday they would have to act over a fresh denial of the Nazi Holocaust by jailed British historian David Irving. The new denial came in interviews with several British journalists in his Austrian prison cell, where he is beginning a three-year sentence. A spokesman of the state prosecution said: 'We're going to have to react to that. We can't overlook it.' It was possible that Irving had again broken Austrian laws banning Nazi 'revivalism

David Irving, the author who was jailed in Austria last week for Holocaust denial, has again claimed that Adolf Hitler did not oversee an organised programme of extermination of Jewish people in Europe. Irving: admits some Jews were gassed In an interview from his jail cell broadcast today, he insisted he still believed the numbers gassed at Auschwitz were relatively small. "Given the ruthless efficiency of the Germans, if there was an extermination programme to kill all the Jews, how come so many survived?" asked Irving in the interview for BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

In some recess of David Irving's reptile brain, he knows that his indefensible imprisonment is helping his side. His side consists of all the enemies of open societies.

Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt was once sued by David Irving, but that doesn't mean she supports the jail sentence given to the Holocaust denier this week. "I'm in principle against laws that promote censorship. I'm in principle against laws on Holocaust denial. I'm in principle against laws that prevent the publishing of cartoons in Denmark," Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta, told JTA on Tuesday, a day after an Austrian court sentenced Irving to three years in prison for statements he made in 1989 saying there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Lipstadt...

Speech that is not felt by some powerful group to be loathsome is hardly in need of protection. The value of an absolutist opposition to the censorship of speech, as enshrined in the US Constitution's First Amendment, is that it holds out the prospect that the right to speak will be honored even when the content of those utterances is not. What is disturbing in both the Irving and Muhammad cartoon situations is the stuttering hesitancy of many who claim to be committed to free speech to speak out in opposition to those--be they Muslim clerics or Austrian judges--who seek...

Holocaust denier deserves to be ignored, not thrown in prison Last winter, on a cold and black night, I went to hear the Holocaust denier David Irving speak at the University of Colorado. I arrived early to get a good seat and soon after me came five huge young men, all of them looking like skinheads. I glared at them, and they glared at me and for a moment I feared I was going to meet my maker. But it turned out that when Irving started to speak, the skinheads of my fertile imagination rose as one, unfurled an Israeli...

VIENNA, Austria -- Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust _ a crime in the country where Hitler was born. Irving, who pleaded guilty and then insisted during his one-day trial that he now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, had faced up to 10 years behind bars. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. [snip} But despite his apparent epiphany, Irving, 67, maintained he...

David Irving, the controversial historian, has confirmed he is to appeal against his three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust. Irving admits to 'refining' his Holocaust thinking In a television interview given from his jail in Austria, Irving, 67, said "I come from a free country, I am not going to let anybody silence me. "They are not going to succeed, I don't think." During his day-long trial in Vienna on Monday, he pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust, but insisted that he now acknowledged the Nazis' slaughter of six million Jews during the Second World War.

An Austrian court on Monday sentenced British Holocaust denier David Irving to three years behind bars, thereby sparking a controversy about whether it's appropriate to imprison anyone for ostensibly only voicing his opinions. The problem is that denying the murder of six million Jews is not an "opinion," but hate speech. In 1989 Irving had delivered three lectures in Austria in which he contended that the Nazis had not exterminated Jews in World War II. At the time disputing the existence or extent of the Holocaust was already illegal in Austria, homeland of the two most notorious Adolfs - Hitler...

The trial and conviction of David Irving provides much food for thought. First, there is Irving’s own confession that he is a “holocaust denier.” Whatever one may think of the merits of Irving’s work, his confession—for whatever motive (probably fear)—casts an ugly shadow on what he has done. He and many of his defenders have always denied this charge. Now he has admitted it, there is no more to be said. Then, there is his recantation. You see, he is now convinced, after going through Adolf Eichmann’s papers, that the Nazis really did kill millions of Jews. That should about...

A FORMER Australian beauty queen has called for the bodies of Holocaust victims to be dug up to see if they really were gassed. Lady Michele Renouf, who was Miss Newcastle 1968 and briefly married to financier Sir Frank Renouf, questioned whether Nazi extermination camps killed six million Jews during World War II. The socialite divorcee was speaking outside a Vienna court where British historian David Irving was jailed for three years yesterday for denying the Holocaust. Irving, 67, pleaded guilty after admitting he'd been wrong to doubt the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews. The charges relate to a...

European press split over Irving Irving has said he will appeal against his sentence The three-year prison sentence handed down by an Austrian court to British historian David Irving for denying the Holocaust divides opinion in Europe's press. In Austria, a commentator on a leading daily has no doubts that the sentence was fully justified, notwithstanding that the country is a democracy. But elsewhere, commentators worry that the sentence has undermined the fundamental democratic right of freedom of speech, and argue the principle should be upheld however abhorrent the views expressed. Hans Rauscher in Austria's Der Standard Holocaust deniers like...

Austrian prosecutors have filed an appeal against the three-year prison sentence handed to the British historian David Irving, arguing that he escaped too lightly for the crime of Holocaust denial. Irving was left stunned and open-mouthed when the sentence was handed down after a one-day trial in a Vienna court yesterday. After entering a guilty plea and publicly accepting that he had made a mistake when denying existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving had clearly expected a more lenient punishment over two speeches made to Austrian neo-Nazis in 1989. Irving's defence lawyer, Elmar Kresbach, has already appealed against the...

British historian David Irving was sentenced in Austria to three years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust, saying he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War. Irving could have received a 10-year prison term. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust. Handcuffed and wearing a dark suit, Irving arrived at the courthouse in Vienna carrying one of his books, Hitler's War, which challenges the extent of the Holocaust. "I made a mistake when I said there were no...

British historian David Irving sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for denying Holocaust; earlier, Irving pleaded guilty to the charges but insisted he now acknowledges killing of Jews Associated Press (VIDEO) Going to jail: Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria on Monday for denying the Holocaust, which is illegal in in the country. Irving, who pleaded guilty and insisted during his one-day trial that he had a change of heart and now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, faced up to 10 years behind bars...

British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison. He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," he told the court in the Austrian capital. Irving appeared stunned by the sentence, and told reporters: "I'm very shocked and I'm going to appeal." An unidentified onlooker told him: "Stay strong!". Irving's lawyer said he considered the verdict "a little too stringent"....

Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in court carrying a copy of one of his most controversial books — "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," Irving told the court before his sentencing, at which he faced up to 10 years in prison. He...

David Irving, the revisionist historian, pleaded guilty today to criminal charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded that he had been mistaken when he claimed that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. But, in comments to reporters and in testimony before a Viennese court, the British writer denied that he had ever written a book specifically about the Holocaust and said that after revision of his own views he now accepted that million of Jews were indeed murdered in Nazi death camps. "I am not a Holocaust denier. My views have changed," he said. "History is a constantly growing...

Nazi historian Irving finds his books in Austrian jail library By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 02/12/2005) David Irving, the British historian, has embarrassed Austria's judicial authorities by finding his own books in a prison library while in custody on charges of Holocaust denial. Irving, 67, who will spend Christmas and the New Year behind bars pending trial, found two of his most contentious books in the Graz prison library after asking for something to read. He said in an interview he signed both, German translations of Hitler's War and The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17, before returning them to guards....

VIENNA, Austria - British historian David Irving was arrested last week in southern Austria on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. Irving was arrested Nov. 11 in Styria province, said police Maj. Rudolf Golia, an Interior Ministry spokesman. He was transferred to a prison in Graz. Irving was detained on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws that make Holocaust denial a crime, Golia said. The accusation stemmed from speeches Irving delivered that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Historian David Irving, known for his controversial views on World War Two, has been arrested in Austria on suspicion of denying the Holocaust, an interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Irving was arrested on November 11 near the town of Hartberg in the southern province of Styria under a warrant issued in 1989, interior ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said. "He is on remand in Vienna," Gollia said. Asked what Irving had been arrested for, Gollia said: "It is to do with ... Holocaust denial." The spokesman declined to comment on whether or when he would be charged....

C-SPAN often teeters on the brink of self-parody, particularly when the hosts of its morning discussion program, “Washington Journal,” stare impassively at the camera while yet another crazed caller recites chapter and verse of the latest conspiracy theories involving the Trilateral Commission or the Bush family’s Nazi/Saudi/Zionist/ KGB/CIA ties (choose one or more and don’t think twice about any seeming contradictions). Formed in 1979 as, in the words of its mission statement, “a private, non-profit company...by the cable television industry as a public service....to provide public access to the political process,” C-SPAN is deadly serious about maintaining a reputation for...

The historian David Irving has lost his libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Mrs. Lipstadt had called Irving “one of the most dangerous spokesmen for Holocaust denial.” In a devastating ruling, Justice Charles Gray declared Irving a “racist” and “anti-Semite” who distorts historical facts in order to portray Adolf Hitler in what Gray, turning to British understatement, called “an unwarrantedly favorable light.” Under British law, Irving must now bear the $3 million in legal fees the defendants ran up. Gray didn’t deny Irving’s contention that Mrs. Lipstadt, with the assistance of other Jewish agencies, including the Israeli government, ...

British historian David Irving, accused of being a Holocaust denier, will not be permitted to enter New Zealand later this year. Mr Irving was denied a visa because he had been deported from another country, Immigration Service spokesman Kathryn O'Sullivan said. Mr Irving, who was deported from Canada in 1992, says on his website that he planned to visit New Zealand in September. "Anyone who has been deported from another country is not allowed into New Zealand, full stop. You don't look at the reasons why. It's basically New Zealand law," Ms O'Sullivan said. She said if Mr Irving wished...

This past week we all found out that local political chameleon, Rob Ross, is not only a liar, but also a Nazi sympathizer who doesn’t believe the Holocaust ever took place. In addition to all the other shenanigans this creep has been involved with over the past several years while working for both the Republicans and now the Democrats he also finds the time to read the writings of David Irving, a so-called British military historian and noted Holocaust denier. Ross even went so far as to give Irving legal advice in his fight against Emory University Professor Deborah Lipstadt,...

The Antiwar Movement's Nazi ConnectionBy Ben JohnsonFrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2003 In the run-up to the liberation of Iraq, conservatives were tempted to say the entire anti-war movement represented nothing more than a conglomeration of Stalinists, Castroites and Islamists. Such a description would not do justice to the "peace" movement: it would omit the role of vicious anti-Semites. FrontPage Magazine recently exposed the neo-Nazi Bill White’s Overthrow.com ("The Bottom of the Barrel"), but giving White a run for his bile is one Bruce Alan "Vincent" Breeding, a professional anti-Semite and sometime Satan-worshiper whose life’s purpose lies in fighting the Jews....