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Holocaust on Trial
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Program Overview
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On January 11, 2000, a trial opened in London's High Court that
would prove to be a crucial test of Holocaust "deniers." British
author David Irving brought a libel action against Deborah Lipstadt,
author of
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and
Memory.
In her book, Lipstadt characterized Irving as a "Hitler partisan"
who manipulated the historical record to deny the reality of the
Holocaust. In seeking damages, Irving claimed that her book
destroyed his reputation. Interwoven with dramatized sequences that
re-create the courtroom testimony and arguments are documentary
segments that explore evidence with the aid of historians Hugh
Trevor-Roper and Robert Harris, and Auschwitz authority Robert Jan
van Pelt, among others.
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