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Harris, Robert (1986). Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14726-7. Since then, Irving has continued to work as a freelance writer, despite his troubled public image. He was drawn into the controversy surrounding Bishop Richard Williamson, who in a televised interview recorded in Germany in November 2008 denied the Holocaust took place, only to see Williamson convicted for incitement in April 2010 after refusing to pay a fine of €12,000. [159] [160] Irving subsequently found himself beset by protesters on a book tour of the United States. [161] He has also given lectures and tours in the UK and Europe; one tour to Poland in September 2010 which led to particular criticism included the Treblinka death camp as an itinerary stop. [162]

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Not one of [Irving's] books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about ... if we mean by historian someone who is concerned to discover the truth about the past, and to give as accurate a representation of it as possible, then Irving is not a historian. [144]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] His credibility was called further into question when his biography of Goebbels claimed it was he rather than Hitler who orchestrated the persecution and extermination of the Jews.

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Irving was portrayed by John Castle in courtroom dramatizations of the Lipstadt case for the PBS Nova episode "Holocaust on Trial" (2000). [196] Anything can happen in those courts. Any victory for Irving will be a loss for truth and historical accuracy." By the mid-1980s, Irving had not had a successful book for some years and was behind schedule in writing the first volume of his Churchill series, the research for which had strained his finances. [66] He finished the manuscript in 1985, and the book was published in 1987, as Churchill's War, The Struggle for Power. He claims that "as a reputable historian with some ground-breaking work behind me I should be enabled to use an element of scepticism in my work without being accused of being a Holocaust denier".David Irving and his twin brother Nicholas [9] were born in Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex, England. They had a brother, John, [10] and a sister, Jennifer. [11] Their father, John James Cawdell Irving (1898–1967), was a career naval officer and a commander in the Royal Navy. Their mother, Beryl Irving ( née Newington), was an illustrator and a writer of children's books. [12] 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. Conclusion on meaning 2.15 (vi): that Irving is discredited as a historian." David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt. International Pressure Groups". Drs.library.yale.edu:8083 . Retrieved 2 September 2011. [ dead link]

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During an interview with Johann Hari, Irving said that in the 1970s, Erwin Giesing, one of Hitler's doctors, had quoted Hitler to him thus: "One day, an Englishman will come along and write my biography. But it cannot be an English man of the present generation. They won't to [ sic] be objective. It will have to be an Englishman of the next generation, and one who is totally familiar with all the German archives." Irving said that Giesing had identified him as the objective Englishman that Hitler had spoken of. [171] Deborah Lipstadt, professor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory university in Atlanta, Georgia, accused Mr Irving of being one of the most prominent and dangerous "Holocaust deniers" in the world in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth and Memory, published by Penguin four years ago. Irving denied that the Nazis gassed any Jews or other people, with the exception of admitting that a small number of people were gassed during experiments. [93]The description of Irving as a historian, rather than an author writing about history, is controversial, with some publications since the libel trial continuing to refer to him as a "historian" [184] or "disgraced historian", [185] while others insist he is not a historian, and have adopted alternatives such as "author" [186] In a review of Irving's book Churchill's War (1988), David Cannadine criticised Irving's "double standard on evidence", accusing Irving of "demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden)". [10] On 6 October 1995, Irving told an audience in Tampa, Florida, that he agreed with the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels that the Jews "had it coming for them". [98] He continued: Day 16 of David Irving vs Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011 . Retrieved 26 November 2010.

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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”. James Libson, a junior solicitor in the case and now a senior partner at Mishcon de Reya, said that the verdict seemed “momentous at the time”. Lipstadt won, with the judge concluding that Irving was an antisemitic, racist Holocaust denier. He was forced to declare bankruptcy and his scholarly reputation was shattered. “We really thought the verdict marked a line in the sand,” says Libson. “That it marked Holocaust denial as a done subject. We’d proven it, conclusively, in a court of law. a b Lay, Kat (26 May 2009). "50 years on: David Irving, Apartheid and ULU". London Student. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009 . Retrieved 21 August 2010. In 1969, after David Irving's support for Rolf Hochhuth, the German playwright who accused Winston Churchill of murdering the Polish wartime leader General Sikorski, The Daily Telegraph issued a memo to all its correspondents. 'It is incorrect', it said, 'to describe David Irving as a historian. In future we should describe him as an author. '" Ingrams, Richard (25 February 2006). "Irving was the author of his own downfall". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007 . Retrieved 27 March 2010.

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Irving is portrayed in the alternate universe novel The Mirage as the Prime Minister of the Anglican Kingdom of Britain. Atkins, Stephen E. (2009). Holocaust Denial as an International Movement. Walport, Connecticut; London, England: Praeger. p.119. ISBN 978-0-313-34538-8. 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. In the 1980s, Irving started researching and writing about topics other than Nazi Germany, but with less success. He began his research on his three-part biography of Winston Churchill. After publication Irving's work on Churchill received at least one bad review from Professor David Cannadine (then of the University of London): There were no gas chambers in Auschwitz, there were only dummies which were built by the Poles in the postwar years, just as the Americans build the dummies in Dachau ... these things in Auschwitz, and probably also in Majdanek, Treblinka, and in other so-called extermination camps in the East are all just dummies. [95]