Austrian prosecutors in the trial of right-wing British historian David Irving filed an appeal today to contest his three-year prison sentence, saying it was too lenient.

RIGHT-WING British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria yesterday of denying the Holocaust — a crime in a country once run by the Nazis — and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty to criminal charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz as his trial opened today in Vienna.