Holocaust denier, David Irving has been released (via) after an Austrian court reduced his three year prison sentence for Holocaust denial.

The Regional High Court in Vienna upheld an appeal by Irving yesterday, converting into probation the three-year sentence handed down last February. Irving, 68, was arrested in November last year during a visit to Austria on a warrant dating back to 1989, when he held two lectures in Austria denying the existence of death camps and the organised mass murder of Jews during Nazi rule. He was held under a 1992 law that makes denial of the Holocaust a crime.

Frankly, it’s good that he’s out. Irving is an idiot and a proven liar. As such, his claims are best dealt with by allowing a real historian to pull them apart rather than trying to hide them away in some cell.

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