David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a Holocaust denier from the United Kingdom (UK).[1] He has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). In his works, he argued that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews or, if he did, opposed it.[2] His works were never taken seriously by mainstream historians.
David Irving | |
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 Irving in 2012 | |
| Born | David John Cawdell Irving 24 March 1938 (aged 87) |
| Known for | Holocaust denial, historical revisionism |
| Spouse(s) | María del Pilar Stuyck
(m. 1961; div. 1981) |
| Children | 5 |
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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).
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 Churchill.
Ernst Zündel, whom Irving met in 1986 and became good friends with and collaborated with to distribute Holocaust denial
Interior of the gas chamber of Auschwitz I camp. In a speech in 1990 Irving said, "There were no gas chambers in Auschwitz. There have been only mock-ups built by the Poles in the years after the war."
Inside a barracks in Auschwitz II Birkenau. In 1992, during appeal of his conviction for Holocaust denial, Irving called Auschwitz a "tourist attraction".
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References
- ↑ Hare, Ivan & Weinstein, James (2010). Extreme Speech and Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 553. ISBN 978-0199601790.
- ↑ Evans 2001, p. 101.