Thursday, March 15, 2012

Lying about Hitler

Lying about Hitler

Who is RICHARD J. EVANS? The name of the distinguished professor of modern history at Cambridge University in England is certainly not a familiar one in America.

But it ought to be better known, because he was of the leading experts, and the chief advisor, in the groundbreaking David Irving libel trial in London.

IT WAS JUST A YEAR AGO this month that Irving's civil suit against Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin, ended.

Irving, the author of numerous works on the Nazi era and the only Holocaust denier who could claim any serious attention from historians, maintained that he had been defamed in the American author's book, …

No comments:

Post a Comment