
April 5, 1996 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books on the subject, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Uprising! (1981), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). His work on Nazi Germany became controversial because of a perceived sympathy for the Third Reich and antisemitism. He has associated with far right and neo-Nazi causes, famously seconding British Union of Fascists founder Oswald Mosley in a debate at University College London on immigration during his student days. He has been described as the most skillful preacher of Holocaust denial in the world today. Irving's reputation as an historian was widely discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books in 1996. The court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite and racist, who "associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism," and that he had "for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence." Irving was arrested during a visit to Austria and convicted of "glorifying and identifying with the German Nazi Party" in a speech he made in 1989, a crime in that country since 1992 in the Holocaust denial section <b>...</b>
Christopher
Hitchens
winston
churchill
joseph
goebbels
book
papers
final
solution
holocaust
adolf
hitler
fuhrer
david
irving
st.
martin's
press
revisionism
frank
rich
new
york
times
lecture
germany
canada
australia
laws
freedom
of
speech
bob
dole
bill
clinton
neoconservative
portugese
economic
humor
news
talk
analysis
documentary
conspiracy
middle east
ufo
economy
health
discussion
boxing
conspiracy theory
video log
politics
thefilmarchive