Complex sentence: Irving pleaded guilty to the charge of "trivialising, grossly playing down and denying the Holocaust" and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in accordance with the law prohibiting National Socialist activities (officially "Verbotsgesetz", "Prohibition Statute").
Split into simpler sentences: Irving pleaded guilty to the charge of "trivialising, grossly playing down and denying the Holocaust". Irving was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in accordance with the law prohibiting National Socialist activities (officially "Verbotsgesetz", "Prohibition Statute").