{"product_id":"the-case-for-auschwitz-evidence-from-the-irving-trial","title":"The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court  charging that Lipstadts book  Denying the Holocaust (1993)  falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist  Fred Leuchter  which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense  Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed  mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship  van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955029766197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0253022983","price":33.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780253022981.jpg?v=1770390798","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-case-for-auschwitz-evidence-from-the-irving-trial","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}