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driven by academic interests but sim-
ply by antisemitism and racism."
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, an asso-
ciate at the Center for European
Studies at Harvard and author of the
controversial bestseller, Hitler's
Willing Executioners, said Tuesday's
verdict sent a clear message about
how to view Holocaust deniers like
Irving.
The verdict "should go out as a
message" to everyone "that the peo-
ple who deny the Holocaust are
engaging in fraud."
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While welcoming the verdict, some
observers are sorry that the trial ever
took place.
"The facts of the Holocaust are
the facts," said Sara Bloomfield,
director of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum. "We didn't need
a trial to prove that the Holocaust
happened."
She described Irving as-a "pretty
frivolous and mean-spirited individ-
ual seeking a
lot of public
attention" and
bemoaned the
fact that
Lipstadt "had
to take months
out of her life
and her schol-
arly work" to
deal with
Irving's lawsuit.
David Irving
Even with
the verdict against
Irving, the assault on historical truth
is far from over.
A greater threat than Holocaust
deniers are mainstream, nationalist
leaders in Europe, said Randolph
Braham; director of the Rosenthal
Institute for Holocaust Studies at the
City University of New York.
"They are respectable, believable
leaders who don't deny the
Holocaust, but distort it or denigrate
it to cleanse a particular history," said
Braham, an expert on Hungarian and
Romanian Jewry.
The threat from such leaders
should not be underestimated, he
added.
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