Denial movie plot
2022-04-03 08:01
Historian Deborah Lipstadt faces off in court with David Owen, dubbed "Holocaust Denial" by Lipstadt for insisting on the theory that the Holocaust didn't exist, Owen She was also brought to court for defamation. In the UK, defamation requires the defendant to find evidence, so Lipstadt had to find evidence that the Holocaust was true.
In Lipstadt's case, she has hired attorney Anthony Juliusand trial attorney Richard Lamptonto serve her, two legal jobs. All of them are excellent lawyers dealing with defamation cases. To win the lawsuit and dismiss Owen's defamation claims, Lipstadt and her defense team set out to prepare material to prove the Holocaust was real, and they also proved that there were misrepresentations of the facts in Owen's historical writings. , Owen manipulated historical events to distort and glorify Adolf Hitler
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Extended Reading
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Deborah Lipstadt: Now, some people are saying that the result of this trial will threaten free speech. I don't accept that. I'm not attacking free speech. On the contrary, I've been defending it against someone who wanted to abuse it. Freedom of speech means you can say whatever you want. What you can't do is lie and expect not to be held accountable for it. Not all opinions are equal. And some things happened, just like we say they do. Slavery happened, the Black Death happened. The Earth is round, the ice caps are melting, and Elvis is not alive.
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Richard Rampton: They're a strange thing consciences. Trouble is, what feels best isn't necessarily what works best.