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David Irving held in Austria

 

NSNS 11 November 2005

LONDON—The historian David Irving has been arrested while on a one-day visit to Vienna. A specialist on the Third Reich, he had been invited by courageous students to address an ancient university association in the Austrian capital.

Despite precautions, the Austrian political police are believed to have learned of the Irving visit from wiretaps or the interception of e-mails.

Irving had privately visited his embattled friend, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, on the way to Austria. They had not met for 20 years because of travel restrictions imposed on each of them.