Holocaust Denial Lawsuit

In 1979, the Institute For Historical Review, a Holocaust-denial group, offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. When a concentration camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein, sent them definitive proof, they refused to pay. He then sued them and was awarded $90,000 when the court noted, "It is simply a fact."

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