David Irving
British author and Holocaust denier · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1938 · age 88
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.
Busiest day 8 Nov
Read more often than usual, most of all on 8 November.
5.5 times the usual readers on 8 November. 5,786 readers on 8 November, against about 1,044 a day before the rise.
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Irving in 1955
Irving speaking as the Labour Party candidate during a mock election at Brentwood School, May 1955
Irving with Arthur "Bomber" Harris in 1962![Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of Adolf Hitler (pictured).[37]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13774%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13774%2C_Adolf_Hitler.jpg)
Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of Adolf Hitler (pictured).[37]
In Hitler's War, Irving used an undated memo written by Hans Lammers (pictured), the Chief of the Reich Chancellery, to the Justice Minister, saying: "The Führer has repeatedly pronounced that he wants the solution of the Jewish Question put off until after the war is over."
A note in Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's telephone log on 30 November 1941 stating "no liquidation" was later used by Irving as his central argument in trying to prove that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust.
Irving on After Dark in 1988, discussing Winston ChurchillIn their own words 4
, I deny that millions died in the gas chambers because of the logistical problems for a start.
What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.
The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews...
