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David Irving

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British author and Holocaust denier (born 1938)

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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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David Irving
said · Jan 13, 2000
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The defendants will find it very hard to prove it was a Third Reich decision and an Adolf Hitler decision. There were multiple shootings but it was not pursuant to any programme.

"Gas chamber claims impossible, says Irving", The Guardian (13 January 2000).

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David Irving
said · Sep 18, 1996
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When I get to Australia in January I know what is going to happen. They are going to wheel out all the so-called eyewitnesses. One in particular, Mrs.

Speech in Portland, OR. September 18, 1996

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David Irving
said · 1988
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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors.

In 1988, as cited in "David Irving", Southern Poverty Law Center (undated)

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Born 1938 · age 88
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