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Hotels boycott David Irving's Berlin plans
Notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving is planning to visit Berlin in September - but may have to sleep on a friend's a couch, and hold his meeting in a living-room, as hotels in the German capital have united to boycott him.
Irving, who was banned from Germany altogether for ten years in 1993, says he will be in Berlin on September 10 for a meeting, promising to be in the "heart of Berlin" for attendees to pay €91 to hear him speak.
But after Green Party manager Volker Beck got in touch with the German association of hotels (Dehoga), the group said they would not offer Irving a place to stay.
"I trust that Irving will not be accommodated by our members," Dehoga manager Thomas Lengfelder told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. Most of the capital city's large hotels are members of the group, although smaller guest houses are often not.
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