David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier.[1] He has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany.
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| Born | David John Cawdell Irving 24 March 1938 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Known for | Holocaust denial, historical revisionism, writing on World War II |
| Spouse(s) | María del Pilar Stuyck (m. 1961; div. 1981) |
| Children | 5 |
| Website | fpp.co.uk |
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.
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Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of Adolf Hitler (pictured).
In Hitler's War, Irving used a 1942 memorandum 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.
David Irving appearing on the TV show 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 1990 speech, Irving stated: "I say the following thing: 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 his appeal for his conviction for Holocaust denial, Irving called Auschwitz a "tourist attraction".
Irving during his trial in Austria with a copy of his book Hitler's War
David Irving being deported from Canada, 1992
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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.