**Holocaust denier expelled from Warsaw book fair ** Sunday, May 20, 2007
WARSAW: British historian David Irving, a convicted holocaust denier, was escorted out of an international book fair in Warsaw where he was planning to display his books, Polish organisers said on Saturday.
Irving, who was arrested in Austria after his arrival on a visit in November 2005, spent more than a year in an Austrian jail for denying the Nazis organised mass murder of six million Jews during World War Two. “We asked him to leave,” said Grzegorz Guzowski, the book fair organiser.
“Our employees helped him pack up his things, and our car drove him to the address he specified.” He said Irving’s publishers did not send materials detailing his work to the fair until a few hours before the deadline, giving organisers too little time to prevent the self-taught historian from setting up a table at the exhibition.
Unlike many European countries, Polish law does not expressly forbid Holocaust denial, Warsaw University law professor Piotr Kruszynski told Reuters. “Polish laws prohibiting the promotion of fascism and defamation of people on racial and religious grounds could conceivably be extended to include Irving’s writings,” he added. reuters
Where is the Freedom of Speech?
This is like when Europe and Russia used to kill people for possessing the ‘The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion](Amazon.co.uk)’ book.
Re: Holocaust denier expelled from Warsaw book fair
Unlike many European countries, Polish law does not expressly forbid Holocaust denial, Warsaw University law professor Piotr Kruszynski told Reuters. “Polish laws prohibiting the promotion of fascism and defamation of people on racial and religious grounds could conceivably be extended to include Irving’s writings,” he added. reuters
The laws that this professor violated are mostly Anti-Nazi Laws written in 1947 after World War II to stop the re-birth of the Nazi ideology