1986 January. Mermelstein wins $4.75 million in punitive damages and $500,000 in compensatory damages in a suit against Ditlieb Felderer, an Austrian living in Sweden whose Jewish Information Bulletin derided the Jews killed at Auschwitz and personally attacked Mermelstein.

1987 David Irving’s Churchill’s War is published in Australia. In it, Irving hypothesizes that Winston Churchill was responsible for the deaths of millions of civilians and Allied soldiers instead of Adolf Hitler.

1987 It is found that public school teacher Dorothy Groteluschen, who teaches in Aurora, Colorado, instructed her students that the Holocaust was a "holohoax." Although she was disciplined by the school, she eventually sued and won $3850 in an out-of-court settlement.

1987 Jean Marie Le Pen says in a radio interview that the gas chambers were merely a "detail" of World War II. "Are you trying to tell me that [the existence of gas chambers] is a revealed truth that everyone has to believe?" he asked. "I say that there are historians debating these issues."

1988 May 13. Ernst Zündel is convicted after his second trial and sentenced to nine months in jail. Some of the biggest names in Holocaust denial, including Robert Faurisson, David Irving, Bradley Smith, and Ditlieb Felderer had testified during the second trial. In addition, a self-styled engineer named Fred Leuchter presented a report entitled The Leuchter Report: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland that attempted to prove that the gas chambers were a myth.