Austria – An Austrian Court Denied David Irving’s Appeal

In February 2006, David Irving, the British Holocaust denier, was tried in an Austrian court, in a trial that lasted for only a single day, and was sentenced to three years in prison for denying the Holocaust.

Irving appealed the sentence, and on 1^st September 2006, at the end of an in camera session, the court decided to reject the appeal. At the time of the original trial,
Irving said that he “was wrong when I said that there were no extermination chambers in
Auschwitz“. He added “I am sorry for the killing of innocent people in the course of World War II”.