Disgraced historian David Irving today claimed he was jailed because authorities are scared of what he has to say.<br /><br />
Speaking from the Austrian prison where he has started a three-year term for denying the Holocaust, the 67-year-old said he had simply been exercising freedom of speech.<br…
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