Austria Arrests a Man for Holocaust Denial
Who to root for in this situation?
Until the late 1980s, Mr Irving was a respected historian of the Third Reich and Hitler, though some of his claims were challenged by academics. In 1988 his reputation was damaged when he denied the existence of the Nazi gas chambers, but it was not until the libel trial in 2000 that it was widely realised he had manipulated documents to support his pro-Hitler views.