David Irving is a British historian, who is accused of trivializing the holocaust. His books are mostly about the second world war and the Third Reich including topics like Josef Goebbels, Winston Churchill and the bombings of Dresden. In 1996 Irving filed a libel lawsuit against Penguin books and lost, the judge finding Irving guilty of deliberate and gross distortions of history. This lawsuit resulted in Irving's 2002 bankruptcy. In 2005 he was arrested and jailed for a year in Austria, for lectures he gave in 1989 in which he "trivialized the holocaust". Irving has been barred from entering several countries because of his stance on the holocaust.
