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Kool Musick wrote:

>And last year, or maybe the year before,
> > a British author was taken to court for writing a book about Hitler and
> > Nazi Germany and the Holocaust full of denials and apologetics and the
> > plain misinterpretation of 'historical facts'. But that book was released
> > into an environment where people had a very healthy respect for the power
> > and sanctity of books. He was taken to court. He lost his case.


Wilson Zorn wrote:
>Can you tell me more about this, the author or book or something?  I'm
>interested how he could be taken to court evne if the book was as you say it
>was, unless it was specifically libelous to someone.  Regardless, I'm
>interested in researching this.

As you can see from the links, I had slightly misremembered. First, the 
British historian David Irving wrote a book denying the Holocaust ... then 
second one Deborah Lipstadt wrote a following book calling him a Holocaust 
denier. Irving then took Lipstadt to court for libel ... and lost his case. 
Dramatically. The judge came down with a most damning indictment. Irving 
then lodged an appeal ... and lost. I believe he may be trying to lodge a 
yet further appeal but am not sure.

You can get the meat of the story from the underneath links to two British 
papers. That should be enough to get you going on any further research you 
might want to do, I think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/irving/article/0,2763,181053,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/irving/article/0,2763,181049,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=84585

Kool Musick
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