HST 230    Film: Denial (2016)

Discussion Questions
1. What do you think about the defense strategy of not having Lipstadt 
	or any Holocaust survivors testify?
2. What do you think of the defense team’s visit to Auschwitz?  
	Why did they visit?  How did it help their case?
3. Why do you think Irving is a Holocaust denier?
4. How did Irving manipulate the evidence to support his own conclusions 
	about the Holocaust?
5. What do you think of Justice Gray’s question about whether or not someone 
	is lying if they truly believe what they are saying is true?
6. What do you think about Lipstadt’s point that not all opinions are equal? 
	Can deliberate falsification of facts be protected by the right to free speech?
7. The film is based on the book that Lipstadt published about the trial in 2005 
	called History on Trial.  Why do you think she called her book History on Trial 
	and not Holocaust on Trial?
8. Be a film reviewer.  What did you think of the film as a work of art and entertainment?