Haaretz
Cheshvan 20, 5766
VIENNA, Austria -
Austrian prosecutors on Tuesday filed charges against British historian
David Irving for allegedly violating an Austrian law that makes Holocaust
denial a crime, a prosecutor said.
Irving, an expert on the Third
Reich who has claimed that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about the systematic
slaughter of 6 million Jews, was detained November 11 in the southern
province of Styria on a warrant issued in 1989 that makes Holocaust denial
a crime.
"A charge was filed in relation to two speeches in 1989
in which he denied the existence of gas chambers," prosecutor Otto
Schneider said.
The charges stemmed from speeches Irving delivered
that year in Vienna and in the southern town of Leoben.