Richard J. Evans interview
For the curious, here's a recent (i.e. this week) interview with history professor Richard J. Evans, one of Lipstadt's expert witnesses and author of Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, weighing in on the ways Trump and Hitler are different, and the ways they are the same.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2017/02/historian_richard_evans_says_trump_s_america_isn_t_exactly_like_the_third.html
He's got an opinion on the cave squeakers:
During the Irving-Lipstadt trial, when I was an expert witness, I had sacksful of obscene and abusive letters, but they were just between the writers and me. I just filed them away. Now all that stuff’s out and on the internet. Now they [i.e. the cave squeakers] just go onto Twitter and websites and Facebook and so on. Our public discourse has been poisoned, and that’s very true of the kind of extremism, the lies, the insults, distortions you get in public discourse in Germany in the Weimar Republic.share