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The historian David Irving has been arrested while on a one-day visit to Vienna.
An expert on Hitler's Third Reich, he had been invited by courageous students
to address an ancient University association in the Austrian capital.
He chose as his subject the secret negotiations between Adolf
Eichmann and the Jewish leaders in Budapest, Joel
Brand and Rezsö Kasztner, the so-called "trucks
for Jews" deal, and British knowledge of the scheme from codebreaking.
He has researched the topic extensively in Allied archives for both his Churchill
and his Himmler biographies.
Despite precautions, the Austrian political police are believed to have learned
of the visit by wiretaps or intercepting e-mails. Mr Irving had privately visited
his embattled friend the German playwright Rolf
Hochhuth on the way to Austria; they had not met for twenty years because
of travel restrictions imposed on each of them
