David
Irving: controversial historian in Hungary for
book signing, speechesDavid Irving, the
convicted British
holocaust denier, arrived in Budapest on
Monday, March 12, at the invitation of
publishers, Sándor and Tibor
Gede, to launch the Hungarian-language
version of his book Nurnberg
- The Last Battle.
Due to remain in Hungary for one week for
book signing events, Irving is expected to speak
at the extreme-right Hungarian Justice and Life
Party (MIÉP) party rally on March 15.
Following an appeal, Irving was released on
probation from an Austrian prison last December
after serving part of a three year sentence for
Holocaust denial.
In March of last year, during an interview
with Die Presse and the Austrian Press
Agency, Irving likened Austria to a "Nazi state"
and criticized the country's strict laws against
denying the Holocaust as "ridiculous." MTI photo
shows Irving on his Oct 23, 2003, visit,
speaking at a MIÉP rally, with the red
and white Áráp flag in the
background.
Visiting
delegation of Defense Forces
On Sunday (Mar 11) a visiting delegation of
the Israel Defense Forces commemorated Hungarian
Jewish victims of the Holocaust. At an event
staged at the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Budapest, David Admon, Israel's
Ambassador to Hungary, and Ernô
Lazarovics, representing the Federation of
Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), laid
wreaths in remembrance of the estimated
600,000 Hungarian
Jews killed in the Holocaust, MTI reported.
Irving
trial?
The two representatives then gave speeches to
the gathered officials and members of the
public.
According
to some internet speculation, the Israeli
Forces's visit might have been timed to coincide
with Holocaust revisionist David
Irving's trip to Hungary. One online webblog
stated that the Israeli Parliament had passed a
law stating Israeli's could capture "holocaust
deniers" anywhere in the world and bring them
back for trial in Israel.
In the past, the British historian has
claimed that, rather than genocide, there had
been individual crimes against Jews during the
war years, and many in concentration camps died
of illness.
In Austria, 2006, Irving pleaded guilty to
Holocaust denial, but said that he had changed
his opinion and now believed there was indeed
evidence that gas chambers had
existed.
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