Irving’s claim that accusing him of being a Holocaust denier and a falsifier of history was libellous were forensically demolished by Richard Evans and other eminent historians.

“In essence, we weren’t really proving that the Holocaust happened, what we were proving was that this guy was a liar and a falsifier of history,” she said.

He wept again freely when Huss begged his pardon for harsh words used in the heat of strife, and especially for calling him a falsifier.

When the comprehensive annual curse, known as the Bull in C�na Domini, came in fashion, falsifiers of papal letters were included in its anathemas, until the abrogation of the custom in 1773.

As a forger and falsifier, it was not in his line to equal his prot�g� Eusebius; but in all the arts of dissimulation he seems not to have been his inferior.