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by mainstream historians, he was once recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents...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
Of course it's a question of freedom of speech. The law is an ass.
Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.
Of course this trial is a question of freedom of speech.
That was no Holocaust denial, that was only (a statement) about a part of the (Holocaust) history.
I come from a free country and I'm not going to let anybody silence me.
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'
The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.
Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation - that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people.