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Lol! And if he get out of jail and Austria, he'll change back.
I think Holocaust denial is antihistorical and disgusting, and I don't like historical revisionism, but I can't see what purpose is served by criminalizing the expression of an opinion and charging a British historian with a crime for speeches given in Austria in 1989, some 16 years ago.
There are a great many far more dangerous antisemites out there.
Yes, hang this clear and present danger to the post-WWII Utopia. How dare he question the orthodoxy?
Originally the Germans actually encouraged Jews to leave Austria. Some 130,000 left,about 30,000 to the United States.
Caught by the advent of war, 65,000 Austrian Jews were sent to concentration camps. Only 2,000 souls survived, this at the end of WW2. Some 800 Jews survived in Vienna itself, helped by Viennese.
Yeah, I guess the guilty conscience of these people is assuaged somewhat. I wonder how many Jews Irving killed? (Sarcasm).
Certain of the Europeans do not fool me- for I know what THEY did. The amount of Austrians who SAID they hid a Jew in the war,I believe, is of somewhat large,very large, proportions.
I had no idea this ludicrous nutjob had been arrested by the Austrians. When and how did that happen?
shoot him in the face.
And there was also a time you could be punished for saying the earth isn't flat.
Irving shoulda not set foot in Austria - of all people he oughtta have known what a vengeful hornets nest that would be. I'm assuming this came from a voluntary visit to Austria, not some extradition deal where Britain sent him there.