LETTER : Can ideas ever be banned?

Should wrong opinions be banned? The answer in the case of the Holocaust must be an emphatic yes. Why? Because the aim of the revisionist historians and the Nazi ideologists with whom they are in league is to attain legitimacy for their ideas. This cannot be done as long as the Holocaust remains an immutable fact.

Their purpose is served by attempting to mythologise the events of those days. By doing so they can subvert fact into fiction, and in the absence of any personal testimony, inevitable as the survivors of the camps pass away, reduce those facts to the level of debate and contradiction.

I B Manners

Manchester