History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving

This source offers a glimpse into Lipstadt’s decision, later captured in the 2016 movie Denial, to fight the charge against her in the British High Court, where she would need to prove her claims about the systematic distortion of the historical record by a famous Holocaust denier. 

British law puts the burden of proof on the defendant to demonstrate that the person who brings the libel case did indeed do what the defendant accused them of doing. Despite the long odds, Lipstadt refused to settle. A settlement would have prevented the refutation of efforts to question the historical validity of the systematic murder of millions of Jews during World War II.