Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: April 11 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] April 11 2000 British Holocaust denier and controversial author loses his libel suit against Dr. Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher. In his judgment, "...Mr. Justice Gray said the charges he had found to be substantially true were that "Irving had for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence". That "for the same reasons, he had portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews". The judge said he found that Irving was "an active Holocaust denier; that he was anti-semitic and racist and that he associated with right-wing extremists who promoted neo-Nazism". The judge said there were certain defamatory imputations which he had found to be defamatory of Irving, but said that in his judgment the charges against him which had been proved to be true were of "sufficient gravity" for it to be clear that the failure to prove the truth of other matters did not have any material effect on Irving's reputation." (The Guardian, April 11, 2000) 1944 Six hundred ninety-eight ill prisoners at Gusen concentration camp are sent to Hartheim euthanasia insitution, where they are killed under the program known as "14f13" -- the murder of prisoners considered too ill and weak to perform forced labor. (USHMM 1994, 37) A transport of twenty-five hundred Greek Jews from Athens arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Ibid.) The construction of compound BIII in Birkenau, dubbed "Mexiko" by the prisoners, is halted. (Ibid.) Work Cited USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994
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