Denying The Holocaust Denier, By Deborah Lipstadt

In 2016 the movie Denial arose in the box offices worldwide, following the true events leading up to the Irving V. Penguin and Lipstadt trial for libel judgment as told in the book “ History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier” by Deborah Lipstadt. It told the story of outcome of Deborah Lipstadt’s prior book “Denying the Holocaust” which included the work of David Irving a known author and a self-declared historian on the topic of denying the existence of the Holocaust. Deborah Lipstadt who at the time was a professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University put her own credibility on the line to prove that the Holocaust true. To claim this type of denialism means denying the most well know and best documented genocide of the

The trial covered the three main factors of denying the Holocaust. The biggest accusations claim was that there was no proof of the Nazi’s having an organized plan to eliminate Jews, that there was no proof that Hitler ordered the extermination or did not know of the extermination of Jews, and that no Jews were killed with the use of gas chambers. He believed specifically that no Jew was ever murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz extermination camp. The trial began in January of 2000 and ended, with a judgment strongly in favor of Lipstadt and her publisher, in April of that year. The purpose of the trial was for Irving to gain his credibility back. However it was bigger for the defenders making them prove all the accounts of the Holocaust David claimed untrue. Thus if they lost it would evidently mean the Holocaust did not occur. The trial was able to argue the fact that David Irving was a radical racist who traveled the world speaking to neo-Nazis groups, for example, that “more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.” Judge Charles Gray the judge who presided over this case he found that Irving was stating personal opinion of the Holocaust, deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence and fact he was considered a racist, specifically