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Freedom—the speakers argue—drives civilization, trade, competition, and the search for truth, while government coercion kills "competitive knowledge discovery." They trace Holocaust revisionism from Racine and Bardèche to Franz Josef Scheidel, whose 1968 work, "the defamation the history of the defamation of Germany," he self-published, distributing to libraries. The dialogue covers Butz's The Hoax of the twentieth century, Arthur Butts, and Robert Forrestal; the British edition and the Institute for Historical Review; the emergence of "Holocaust Handbooks" and encyclopedias. They recount Ernst Zundel's trials, Leuchter's two-week report, David Irving's testimony, and the legal push in France and Germany against denial. Others include Bradley Smith, the Adelaide Institute, Ursula Haverbeck, and Wolfgang Frohlich. The conversation emphasizes free speech as the battleground and the risks of suppression by human rights commissions and laws.