The Holocaust On Trial : History, Justice And The David Irving Libel Case Paperback / softback
by D.D. Guttenplan
Paperback / softback
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David Irving is a leading Holocaust revisionist. In 1996, He sued Penguin Books for libel, claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier.
The trial was one of the strangest to take place in an English court: the judge had to give a verdict on history.
At stake was the freedom of neo-fascist historians to exonerate Hitler and to deny that the Nazis set out to commit genocide, but this was also a trial about the present day, about what out society finds it politically and morally acceptable to say in public.
It was also a libel trial about evidence: how do we know that the genocide happened?
D. D. Guttenplan has followed David Irving's career for years and has studied the furious debates over the Holocaust.
This is a dramatic recreation of a bizarre trial and a meditation on truth and memory.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, maps
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:10/01/2002
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- ISBN:9781862074866
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, maps
- Publisher:Granta Books
- Publication Date:10/01/2002
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- ISBN:9781862074866