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by mainstream historians, he was once recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents...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
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Date of Birth24 March 1938
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.
...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.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.
I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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.
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.