The outcome is important for Irving but secondary for Revisionism. The Irving Trial is a direct outcome of the two Zundel Trials. Without the Zundel trials, there would now be no Irving Trials. The court apparently was moved, however, by a preface by the former Third Reich general who had commissioned Rudolf to do the research, Otto Ernst Remer, who in 1992 himself was sentenced to prison for incitement to racial hatred. That is the crux of this whole matter.
Scholars tend to award that accolade to each other.
And their scholarship usually consists of sitting in libraries reading each others' books. In the process, Irving said he did not come across a single document or interview that indicated Hitler had ordered a campaign to exterminate the Jews. I won't accept that. What good was a trial in a court staffed by the victors who chose the judges, the prosecutors, the interrogators, and who controlled the evidence and even wrote the ground rules, supplied the executioners, selectively published truncated versions of the transcripts and allowed no appeals from their verdicts. We recommend that the reader check out the Zundelsite and other Revisionist websites to learn what witnesses had to say to this flimsy and unfounded claim.