Emma B, he went to jail because he abused his position as a "serious" historian? What on earth are you talking about? If he is NOT a serious historian, it's hardly of any consequence whether he abuses his poition. If he IS, then he's entitled to his viewpoint, whatever we think of it.

"...where the legislation expressly prohibited that particular distortion..." sounds a little bit Orwellian to me. Do we really want to live in this kind of world?

Rapaire, your friend Kevin's take on war and violence is all very illuminating I'm sure, but sometimes we need to think these things out for ourselves.

I don't want to get sucked into defending Irving's views, but I've never heard him claim that the Nazi genocide of European Jews took place in the 1990s. I suspect you're just peddling tittle tattle, but if there is any substance to it I would appreciate some kind of reference.