"Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust - a crime in the country where Hitler was born. Irving, who pleaded guilty and then insisted during his one-day trial that he now acknowledged the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million Jews, had faced up to 10 years behind bars. Before the verdict, Irving conceded he had erred in contending there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp".The guy is obviously an idiot but I guess it's just being an American and being able to say whatever you want without the fear of being jailed that makes it hard to believe this could happen in a western European country. The Austrians really just have to get over their feelings of collective guilt.
