Hitler's War

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Evans, Richard J. (2002). Telling Lies about Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-417-5.

Critical responses to David Irving - Wikipedia

David Irving commented that he had not been told that the festival was going to present him as a liar, [177] and that he was preparing a lecture about the real history of what took place in Norway during World War II, contrary to what official historians have presented. Irving stated that he had thought the Norwegian people to be made of tougher stuff. [179] Early in September 2004, Michael Cullen, the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, announced that Irving would not be permitted to visit the country, where he had been invited by the National Press Club to give a series of lectures under the heading "The Problems of Writing about World War II in a Free Society". The National Press Club defended its invitation of Irving, saying that it amounted not to an endorsement of his views, but rather an opportunity to question him. A government spokeswoman said that "people who have been deported from another country are refused entry" to New Zealand. Irving rejected the ban and attempted to board a Qantas flight for New Zealand from Los Angeles on 17 September 2004. He was not allowed on board. [151]David Irving: Britain's Holocaust "revisionist" ". Nizkor.org. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011 . Retrieved 2 September 2011. Baldwin, Peter (1990). Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Historians' Debate. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-4302-8. Sixteen years after an English court discredited his work and the judge called him “antisemitic and racist”, the historian David Irving claims he is inspiring a new generation of “Holocaust sceptics”.

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His new fans, he says, are the same people who in the US are supporting Donald Trump, who he believes will make a good president and “has his heart in the right place”. Though, he says, he is also impressed by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Shermer, Michael; Grobman, Alex (2002). Denying History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21612-1. Craig, Gordon A. (19 September 1996), "The Devil in the Details", The New York Review of Books, pp.8–14 Smith, Bradley F. "Review: Two Alibies for the Inhumanities: A. R. Butz, "The Hoax of the Twentieth Century" and David Irving, "Hitler's War" ". German Studies Review. 1 (1): 327–335. doi: 10.2307/1429224. JSTOR 1429224. Irving always denied Hitler was antisemitic, even before he openly denied the Holocaust. [68] Irving claimed Hitler only used antisemitism as a political platform, and that after he came to power in 1933 he lost interest in it, while Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis continued to espouse antisemitism. [69] In 1977 on a BBC1 television programme, he said that Hitler "became a statesman and then a soldier ... and the Jewish problem was a nuisance to him, an embarrassment." [70] In 1983, 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. He was the one who was doing everything he could to prevent things nasty happening to them." [70] In the same year, he further declared about Hitler and the mass killing of Jews, "There is a whole chain of evidence from 1938 right through to October 1943, possibly even later, indicating that Hitler was completely in the dark about anything that may have been going on." [70] Irving boasted that he had not been disproved. [70]

In his own words

Lipstadt said the idea that Irving had been vindicated by history was “preposterous”. “There was nothing, zilch, in the historical claims that he made. We proved that. But this is the world we are living in. Where facts don’t matter any more … and it’s absolutely terrifying. Though Irving never earned a degree, he took courses at Imperial College in London and cut his teeth as a journalist editing Phoenix, the college magazine. He then moved on to The Carnival Times, the London University newspaper, where he began to gain notoriety for his highly conservative views on apartheid in South Africa, and for an accusation that the British press was owned and operated by Jews. Jan van Pelt, Robert (2002). The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial (Firsted.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-253-34016-0. Weidauer, Walter (1965), Inferno Dresden. Über Lügen und Legenden um die Aktion "Donnerschlag.", Dietz Verlag, pp.6, 132, ISBN 3-320-00818-8 Thus, according to Irving, the Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves. [97] Ernst Zündel trial Ernst Zündel, whom Irving met in 1986 and became good friends with and collaborated with to distribute Holocaust denial