History/ Austria: The David Irving Trial

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+++ History/ Austria: The David Irving Trial

Denmark - Kristeligt Dagblad. In the course of the next few
months, the British revisionist David Irving will go on trial
in Austria. He faces up to 10 years in prison for denying the
Holocaust. Michael Bach Henriksen, head of the cultural desk,
says he should be acquitted in the name of freedom of
expression. "There are obvious parallels between this trial and
another controversial case, namely that of Orhan Pamuk in
Turkey. Officially, the Turks never committed genocide
resulting in the deaths of up to a million Armenians during the
First World War. Pamuk questions this official version of
history and says it was indeed genocide. He is entitled to defy
the official version of history. And so is Irving. No matter how
crazy or distorted his views are, he's entitled to express them.
The only thing achieved by imprisoning those who deny the
Holocaust is to make martyrs of extremist groups." +++


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