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UK: Irving loses appeal

01 May 2001

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The pro-nazi "historian", David Irving, has failed in his appeal against the High Court decision to dismiss his libel case against the author, Deborah Lipstadt, last year. Lipstadt, in her book Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory (Penguin 1994), accused Irving of falsifying statistics and distorting historical evidence in order to support his neo-nazi political ideology. On losing the case Irving said that he would appeal against the "perverse" ruling, but in July three Appeal Court judges upheld the original decision and rejected his application. One of the Appeal court judges, Lord Justice Pill, said: "The respondents were justified in describing him `as one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial' having regard to the views he has expressed and in some respects persists in, and the manner and force with which he has expressed them."

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