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Austrian Court Jails Historian Who Denied Holocaust [30min]

An Austrian court sentences British historian David Irving to three years in prison Monday, for the crime of denying the holocaust. Guests examine whether or not anti-Nazi laws are needed more than 60 years after the end of World War II. Guests: Derek Scally, Berlin correspondent for The Irish Times; Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta; and Mark Weitzman, director, Task Force against Hate, the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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