An Austrian court sentenced David Irving to three years in prison for denying the Holocaust. Irving, a historian who pleaded guilty to the charges at the opening of the trial earlier in Monday, looked stunned in the crowded courtroom after the jury of eight laymen and three judges returned the sentence. Holocaust denial is a crime in Austria — a country once run by the Nazis.
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