Denial is the action of declaring something untrue, denial is also a state of mind when a person doesn’t want to except facts or situations they believe never occurred. A mindset like denial can be harmful and can affect a person’s mind from understanding fact versus fiction. Deborah Lipstadt is an American professor of Holocaust studies whose speaking engagement is disrupted by David Irving, a scholar of Nazi Germany he files a libel lawsuit in the UK against her and her publisher for declaring him a Holocaust denier in her books. Deborah E. Lipstadt is a women that represented history in a courtroom, and stood on trial speaking against Holocaust deniers because history is not debatable, its fact. The book “Denial” is based on the novel “History being on trial,” both are written by Deborah E. Lipstadt. The novel discusses the case, historical context and does not contain any inaccuracies regarding the case or the Holocaust itself. Deborah Lipstadt is an individual that made a difference by challenging Irving in court to prove that someone can’t deny what is true and false without proof.
The case took place in the 1990’s, the setting varies between the United states and London. Lipstadt taught history at Emory University, after a class about the Italian revolution she went to her desk to…show more content… Shortly after the war he began reading reports of extermination in Nazi death camps by means of gas chambers and crematoria. His response was, essentially, "I was there and there were no gas chambers."” Because of the historical context in the novel like knowing the story of anne frank, helps readers comprehend the conversation between Irving and an interviewer.
“ Interviewer: ‘Did you say that the Anne Frank diary was a forgery?’
Irving: ‘Guilty.’
Interviewer: ‘Is it a
