Det är Deborah Lipstadt, historikern som David Irving stämde år 1996 - inte i Amerika där hennes bok först publicerades utan i England där "the burden of proof" i förtalsmål är "on the defendant". Irving antagligen trodde att han Lipstadt eller Penguin Books skulle "agree to settle out of court" och om inte, så kunde han aldrig förlora, men det gjorde han.
Det blev till en film tjugo år senare och då porträtterades hon av the delightful Ms. Rachel Weisz:
"David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt is a case in English law against American author Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books, filed in the High Court of Justice by the British author David Irving in 1996, asserting that Lipstadt had libelled him in her book Denying the Holocaust. The court ruled that Irving's claim of libel relating to Holocaust denial was not valid under English defamation law because Lipstadt's claim that he had deliberately distorted evidence had been shown to be substantially true. English libel law puts the burden of proof on the defence, meaning that it was up to Lipstadt and her publisher to prove that her claims of Irving's deliberate misrepresentation of evidence to conform to his ideological viewpoints were substantially true."
"The judge summarised his findings as follows: Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist, and that he associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism... therefore the defence of justification succeeds... It follows that there must be judgment for the Defendants."
David Irving "was also liable to pay all of the substantial costs of the trial (between one and two million pounds), which ruined him financially and forced him into bankruptcy in 2002."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_ ... _Books_Ltd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_(2016_film)
(Filmen är inte alls dålig och Timothy Spall som spelar rollen av David Irving är nästan genialiskt bra som vanligt.)
Sarvi har frågan!