'Holocaust' enforcement?

No seguimento de um post recente Revisionismos e Negacionismos, acrescento a opinião de um dos mais conceituados historiadores da Segunda Grande Guerra, Norman Davies:

"Scholarship and comment about wartime events do not operate in a completely free environment. In many Western countries the law has been mobilized to shore up an official view of history. In Britain, for instance, war crimes are not regarded as war crimes if they were not perpetuated by Germans or German associates. In France, according to the Babius-Gayssot Law of 1990, anyone who denies the Holocaust or minimizes it can face severe penalties, including imprisonment. Half a dozen other European countries, from Austria to Poland, have followed suit. In a perido when the rigth of freedom of speech has being loudly ploclaimed in europe, when Muslims were staging protests against offensive cartoons of their Prophet, an attention-seeking historian [David Irving] from Britan was being imprisoned in Austria for expressing the wrong shade of opinion. This atmosphere is not healthy. History knowledge does not need artificial protection."

Norman Davies, Europe at War 1939-1945, pág-489