From ABC News Online: Tuesday, February 21, 2006. 6:14am (AEDT) By Europe correspondent Rafael Epstein . . .
An Austrian court has found the right-wing British historian David Irving guilty of denying the Holocaust and sentenced him to three years in prison.
Irving appeared stunned by the verdict and says he is planning to appeal against the sentence.
Irving pleaded guilty to a charge of denying the Holocaust in speeches and interviews in Austria in 1989.
He now says his claim that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz was false. . . .
. . .In custody since November, Irving says he never dismissed the Holocaust, and it was only ever a small part of his research.
Irving has been denied entry into countries like Australia and has previously been censured by courts in Germany and Britain that labelled him a racist and an anti-semite.
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