The Case for Auschwitz

An award-winning historian recounts the libel trial in which he supplied evidence proving Auschwitz was a Holocaust death camp. From January to April 2000, historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust , falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based