David Irving
David Irving
David John Cawdell Irvingis an English Holocaust denier and author who 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, Hitler's War, Churchill's War, and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. Though Irving's revisionist views of World War II were never taken seriously by mainstream historians, he was once recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 March 1938
I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.
That was no Holocaust denial, that was only (a statement) about a part of the (Holocaust) history.
Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,
History is like a constantly changing tree. The more you know, the more documents become available, the more you learn, and I have learned a lot since 1989.
because of my ability to stand up to the experts ... to take them all on single-handed.
Smoking is just a prop or wardrobe that helps identify a character as a bad guy. They have to do whatever they can to make the audience feel that this is a despicable person who is fighting or challenging the hero.
I'm not a holocaust denier. Obviously, I've changed my views.
In my view, freedom of speech means the freedom to say things to other people that they don't want to hear. And if that causes offense to them, then that's partly their problem and partly mine. Freedom of speech is the right to be wrong, basically. Sometimes I'm wrong.
The way the law is written, I didn't have any other choice but to plead guilty.
Of course this trial is a question of freedom of speech.
the historical truth and that I alone have been getting it right.