Hotels boycott David Irving's Berlin plans

[The Straight Story]

Hotels boycott David Irving's Berlin plans


Notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving is planning to visit Berlin in September - but may have to sleep on a friend's a couch, and hold his meeting in a living-room, as hotels in the German capital have united to boycott him.

Irving, who was banned from Germany altogether for ten years in 1993, says he will be in Berlin on September 10 for a meeting, promising to be in the "heart of Berlin" for attendees to pay €91 to hear him speak.

But after Green Party manager Volker Beck got in touch with the German association of hotels (Dehoga), the group said they would not offer Irving a place to stay.

"I trust that Irving will not be accommodated by our members," Dehoga manager Thomas Lengfelder told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. Most of the capital city's large hotels are members of the group, although smaller guest houses are often not.

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[Aerows]

1. I don't know what to think about that

He's a holocaust denier, and is therefore a piece of crap, but to deny him a place to stay also means that they want to suppress his vile message. I say let him display his poison so that everyone knows what an idiot he is.

That's just my take.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. But his message encourages other idiots, some of whom are violent

I think the hotels are doing the right thing. He should be shunned by normal society.

[Aerows]

3. And should be! n/t