| Abstract | The 1985 trial of Ernst Zundel placed an unusual question before a Toronto jury if the Holocaust actually happened. Notwithstanding the unusual, perhaps unseemingly evidentiary questions placed before the court, the Zundel trial provocatively captures the changing terms of the law's engagement with the Holocaust. By finding examples in Germany, France and Israel, before returning to the Canadian Zundel case, Douglas argues that the efforts to use legal means to safeguard the history of the Holocaust may contribute to distortions of the very historical record that the law has been asked to defend.
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