A hush-hush lecture by a Holocaust-denying historian brought unwanted limelight to this town’s elegant Ritz Carlton hotel when two of the attendees – including a noted local white supremacist – got into a knife fight in the hallway.

The brawlers broke furniture and stained the hotel carpet with blood Monday night after stepping outside British author David Irving’s speech at the hotel on “decoding the Nazi message.”

The two men – identified as Christopher Nachtman, 31, of Lake Worth, and John Kopko, 43, of West Palm Beach – were among an estimated 35 invited guests at the clandestine event, the location of which was held secret to confound would-be protesters.

Irving’s lectures are lightning rods for controversy, with protestors around the country endlessly seeking to demonstrate outside them.

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