It is wisely said, "I may disagree with everything you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," a saying that dovetails with the feelings of a vast majority of Americans who think Irving was wrong to deny one of the most documented evil events in history, the Holocaust, but think it's absurd to throw him in prison for an exercise of freedom of speech. Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer
Mon Feb 20, 6:24 PM ET
Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust — a crime in the country where Hitler was born. Irving, who pleaded guilty and then insisted during his one-day trial that he now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, had faced up to 10 years behind bars. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," Irving testified, at one point expressing sorrow "for all the innocent people who died during the Second World War."
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