
3 years not enough for British Holocaust denier: prosecutors CBC \|\| February 22, 2006 Related - Austria holds 'Holocaust denier' Austrian prosecutors want British historian David Irving to spend more time in prison, saying his three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust is too lenient. Irving could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust. "The public prosecutor believes the ruling was too lenient in light of a possible sentence of up to 10 years and Irving's special importance to right-wing radicals," said Walter Geyer, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Vienna. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Irving, 68, told the court on Monday he was wrong in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War. Irving, who has written close to 30 books, was arrested in November 1989 after he denied in speeches in Austria that the Nazis killed six million Jews. He had contended most of the Jews who died during the war succumbed to diseases such as typhus. Austria's Justice Ministry says there were 158 convictions between 1999 and 2004. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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3 years not enough for British Holocaust denier: prosecutors

CBC || February 22, 2006

Related - Austria holds 'Holocaust denier'

Austrian prosecutors want British historian David Irving to spend more time in prison, saying his three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust is too lenient.

Irving could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust. Under Austrian law, it is a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust.

"The public prosecutor believes the ruling was too lenient in light of a possible sentence of up to 10 years and Irving's special importance to right-wing radicals," said Walter Geyer, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Vienna.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Irving, 68, told the court on Monday he was wrong in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers during the Second World War.

Irving, who has written close to 30 books, was arrested in November 1989 after he denied in speeches in Austria that the Nazis killed six million Jews.

He had contended most of the Jews who died during the war succumbed to diseases such as typhus.

Austria's Justice Ministry says there were 158 convictions between 1999 and 2004.

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