Holocaust denial: Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt
Prof. Anthony Julius
As we heard, a major blow to the activities of Holocaust deniers came following the David Irving trial of 1996. Let’s hear more about this case and its outcomes by Prof. Anthony Julius, a leading British lawyer and scholar of antisemitism, who represented Prof. Deborah Lipstadt in the trial.
How do you think Holocaust denial and distortion should be confronted?
References
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Evans, Richard J., Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (New York: Basic Books, 2001).
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Julius, Anthony, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
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