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Film: The Defender And The Holocaust Denier

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The Defender and The Holocaust Denier

The Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. The victims included 1.5 million children, and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. A broader definition of the Holocaust includes non-Jewish victims of the Nazi campaign of mass murder, based on biological factors, such as the Romani, and the Aktion T4 patients who were mentally and physically disabled.

Mick Jackson, the director of the movie Denial, shows the debate of the two main characters, Rachel Weisz as Deborah E. Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as David Irving for historical truth to prove that Holocaust actually happen during Adolf Hitler’s time. Director Jackson said the film was timely because it was about fighting for truth. The plot of this film is when Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust studies introduced her book, “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory” And then David Irving interrupted her and he’s offering $1,000 in cash to anyone in the audience who can prove Hitler ordered the Holocaust because he is totally against that Adolf Hitler is bad all the time. David Irving files a libel lawsuit in the UK against her and her publisher for declaring him a Holocaust Denier in her books. As in the United Kingdom the burden of proof in a libel case lies with the …show more content…

His statement "no holes, no holocaust" dominates the media coverage. Furious, Lipstadt demands that she and the Holocaust survivors take the stand. Julius, angrily counters that Irving would only humiliate and exploit a survivor on cross-examination, as he has done in the past. And so Lipstadt remain silently and just follow the strategy of her team to win the

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