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==Lipstadt trial== | ==Lipstadt trial== | ||
High Court Judge Charles Gray wrote, <blockquote>It appears to me to be incontrovertible that Irving qualifies as a Holocaust denier. Not only has he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and asserted that no Jew was gassed there, he has done so on frequent occasions and sometimes in the most offensive terms. By way of examples, I cite his story of the Jew climbing into a mobile telephone box-cum-gas chamber; his claim that more people died in the back of Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz; his dismissal of the eyewitnesses en masse as liars or suffering from a mental problem ... I reject as being untrue the claim made by Irving in his evidence that in his denial of the existence of any gas chambers at Auschwitz, he was referring solely to the gas chamber constructed by the Poles after the war for the benefit of visitors to the site or, as Irving put it, as a 'tourist attraction.' | High Court Judge Charles Gray wrote, <blockquote>It appears to me to be incontrovertible that Irving qualifies as a Holocaust denier. Not only has he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and asserted that no Jew was gassed there, he has done so on frequent occasions and sometimes in the most offensive terms. By way of examples, I cite his story of the Jew climbing into a mobile telephone box-cum-gas chamber; his claim that more people died in the back of Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz; his dismissal of the eyewitnesses en masse as liars or suffering from a mental problem ... I reject as being untrue the claim made by Irving in his evidence that in his denial of the existence of any gas chambers at Auschwitz, he was referring solely to the gas chamber constructed by the Poles after the war for the benefit of visitors to the site or, as Irving put it, as a 'tourist attraction.' |
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David Irving is a British historian specializing in World War II and Nazi Germany, called a revisionist by his supporters, but widely believed to be a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier. In a hignly visible British libel trial in 2000, he lost his claim against historian Deborah Lipstadt. [1] He operates Focal Point Publishers, which offers free downloads of many of his books, although it says they prefer that they be bought from bookstores.[2] Due to his perceived pro-Nazi views, Canada, Austria, Germany and Australia bar him from entry. He has been a speaker at meetings of the Institute for Historical Review and the National Alliance. [3] Lipstadt trialHigh Court Judge Charles Gray wrote,
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