Denial: A close look at the David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt case
WW2By Pierre Kosmidis
David Irving, the Holocaust denier, prolific writer, known for his admiration of nazis and of Hitler, is the subject of the movie Denial, in which writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
The judge summarised his findings as follows:
“Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist, and that he associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism…therefore the defence of justification succeeds…It follows that there must be judgment for the Defendants.”