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: What did you think, Anthony?
Anthony Julius: What did I think? I thought it was the most boring morning we've had in court so far.
Deborah Lipstadt: My God, you love to be contrary.
Anthony Julius: Well, the man's an anti-Semite and a racist. It's like having shit on your shoe. You wipe it off. You don't study it.
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Richard Rampton: The coward threatens only where he is safe.
[Quoting Goethe: "Der Feige droht nur, wo er sicher ist"]