Irving fails to endorse offical 'extermination' and 'gassing' yarns in jail-cell interviews
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Vienna - Austrian prosecutors said Wednesday they would have to act over a "fresh denial of the Holocaust" by jailed British historian David Irving.
The new denial came in interviews with several British journalists in his Austrian prison cell, where he is beginning a three-year sentence in solitary confinement.
A spokesman of the state prosecution said: "We're going to have to react to that. We can't overlook it."
In a British BBC interview, Irving cast doubt on the number of victims in Auschwitz, and described a planned annihilation of the Jews as "absolutely wrong."
On February 20, Irving was jailed for three years in a one-day trial in which he was accused of claiming there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. The charges carry prison sentences of one to ten years. (ILLUSTRATION: The number of victims at Auschwitz has already been reduced from 4 million - old plaque, to 1.5 million - new plaque.)
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