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David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is an English author who has written on the military and political history of the Second World War, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a British court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case.
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culture · British author and Holocaust denier (born 1938) · essayist · journalist · writer · biographer · opinion journalist · also David Irving, Irving
Born 24 March 1938 · Q158629
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2026· 8 entries
“s doctors, had quoted Hitler to him thus:”
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“willing to put [his] signature”
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“Nobody likes to be swindled, still less where considerable sums of money are involved”
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“certain task, which is producing us [men]”
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“The gas chambers that are shown to the tourists in Auschwitz are fakes.”
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“This is pure Realpolitik on my part. I am already dangerously exposed, and I cannot take the chance of being caught in flak meant for others!”
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“I have at home... a filing cabinet full of documents which I don”
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2024· 1 entry
“has been in declining health ever since”
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2008· 1 entry
Casualties at Dresden were estimated as 22,700–25,000 dead
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2000· 1 entry
When, in the course of an unsuccessful libel case he filed against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, High Court Judge Charles Gray determined in his ruling that Irving wilfully misrepresented his
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1999· 2 entries
“The big point [of the Leuchter report]: there is no significant residue of cyanide in the brickwork. That”
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Irving said during a television interview, "I'm a gas chamber denier
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1995· 2 entries
Stated that, "We revisionists, say that gas chambers didn't exist and that the 'factories of death' didn't exist
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When Irving was confronted with a Holocaust survivor, he repeated the same claim and asked, "How much money have you made from that piece of ink on your arm, which may indeed be real tattooed ink
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1994· 2 entries
“when half-breed children are wheeled past”
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Irving lamented that his predictions of 1991 had failed to occur, and complained of the persistence of belief in the "rotting corpse" of the "profitable legend" of the Holocaust
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1993· 2 entries
Apparently because of concerns by the DVU that Irving's espousal of Holocaust denial might lead to the DVU being banned
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Irving claimed that there had been only 100,000 Jewish deaths at Auschwitz, "but not from gas chambers
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1992· 3 entries
Irving called upon those present in the Munich courtroom to "fight a battle for the German people and put an end to the blood lie of the Holocaust which has been told against this country for fifty years"
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“the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time”
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Irving stated that "the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time" and claimed he "foresees a new wave of antisemitism" the world over due to Jewish "exploitation of the Holoc
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1991· 4 entries
“I said that then based on my knowledge at the time, but by 1991 when I came across the Eichmann papers, I wasn”
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Irving espoused an antisemitic conspiracy theory when he stated that the Jews "dragged us into two world wars and now, for equally mysterious reasons, they're trying to drag us into the Balkans
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Removed all mentions of "gas chambers" and the word "Holocaust"
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Irving stated that in two years' time "this myth of mass murders of Jews in the death factories of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka
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1990· 4 entries
Irving told an audience in Canada that "particularly when there's money involved and they can get a good compensation cash payment out of it" there would be people claiming to be eyewitnesses to gas chambers or extermina
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“30,000 people at the most were murdered in Auschwitz ... that”
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Irving said on 5 March that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that "30,000 people at the most were murdered in Auschwitz
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Were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls)
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1989· 3 entries
Irving during a speech told an audience that "there is not one shower bath in any of the concentration or slave labour camps that turns out to have been some kind of gas chamber
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Irving published his biography of Hermann Göring
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“s case. The judge repeatedly asked Irving if he still subscribed to the views articulated in the 1989 speeches.”
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1988· 2 entries
As The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Majdanek
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Irving argued that the Nazi state was not responsible for the extermination of the Jews in places like Minsk, Kiev and Riga because according to him they were carried out for the most part by "individual gangsters and cr
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1987· 1 entry
As Churchill's War, The Struggle for Power
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1986· 1 entry
Irving visited Toronto, where he was met at an airport by the Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel
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1983· 4 entries
“now he [Irving] is saying the same thing about the infamous”
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Irving wrote "now he [Irving] is saying the same thing about the infamous 'gas chambers' of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek
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Stern, a weekly German news magazine, purchased 61 volumes of Hitler's supposed diaries for DM 9 million and published excerpts from them
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Irving summarised his views about Hitler and the Jews when he said that "probably the biggest friend the Jews had in the Third Reich, certainly when the war broke out, was Adolf Hitler
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1982· 3 entries
Irving described himself as an "untrained historian" and argued that his lack of academic qualifications did not mean that he could not be considered a historian
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Irving temporarily stopped writing and made an attempt to unify all of the various far-right splinter groups in Britain into one party called Focus, in which he would play a leading role
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“I know the collection from which these diaries come. It is an old collection, full of forgeries. I have some here”
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1980· 2 entries
Irving received an invitation to speak at a Holocaust-denial conference, which he refused on the grounds that his appearance there would damage his reputation
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Lucy Dawidowicz noted that, although Hitler's War was strongly sympathetic to the Third Reich, because Irving argued that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust as opposed to denying the Holocaust happened at all, his book
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1978· 2 entries
“The interesting questions are what did Hitler know, did Himmler conceal it, did he keep it from Hitler, where was the killing done, was it Auschwitz, was it the Reinhard camps and that's what people are frightened to research, because they go to prison for it.”
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Irving released The War Path, the companion volume to Hitler's War which covered events leading up to the war and which was written from a similar point of view
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1977· 4 entries
On a BBC1 television programme, he said that Hitler "became a statesman and then a soldier
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Irving published Hitler's War, the first of his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler
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The real document TB 47 was located in Dresden by Götz Bergander
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Irving argued that Hitler was against the killings of the Jews in the East
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1975· 1 entry
In his introduction to Hitler und seine Feldherren, the German edition of Hitler's War, Irving attacked Anne Frank's diary as a forgery, claiming falsely that a New York court had ruled that the diary was really the work
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1971· 1 entry
Irving translated the memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen, and in 1973, published The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, a biography of Field Marshal Milch
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1970· 1 entry
With this ruling later being upheld by the House of Lords
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1969· 1 entry
During a visit to Germany, Irving met Robert Kempner, one of the American prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials
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1968· 1 entry
Published Breach of Security, an account of German reading of messages to and from the British Embassy in Berlin before 1939 with an introduction by the British historian Donald Cameron Watt
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1967· 2 entries
Published Accident: The Death of General Sikorski
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Irving published two more works: The Virus House, an account of the German nuclear program during World War II, for which Irving conducted many interviews, and The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17
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1959· 2 entries
As editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, instead of doing national service, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen AG steel works in the Ruhr area and learn
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When he added a "secret supplement" to the magazine
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1944· 1 entry
Branding them "traitors", "cowards", and "manipulators", and uncritically presented Hitler and his government's subsequent revenge against the plotters, of which Rommel was also a victim
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1943· 1 entry
Was really an assassination ordered by Winston Churchill
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1942· 1 entry
To spread anti-German propaganda that it was the policy of the German state to be "using 'gas chambers' to kill millions of Jews and other undesirables"
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1941· 1 entry
Was a "preventive war" forced on Hitler to avert an impending Soviet attack
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1939· 2 entries
And that of Churchill to continue the war in 1940, had been great mistakes that set Britain on a path of decline, and the Holocaust was just a "propaganda exercise"
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And that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline
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1938· 3 entries
Born 1938-03-24.
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“Herr Admiral, at that moment I was being born”
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“killing of Jews. 1963 burglary of Irving”
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1933· 1 entry
Lost interest in it, while Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis continued to espouse antisemitism
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