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I know from bitter experience how crazy they can be. My own book about a Nazi war criminal living in Britain cannot be sold there because of your libel laws.

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There is no doubt that he is an extremely intelligent man, and he has read a huge number of documents, and this conscious denial of the truth is something that he has in common with many other deniers." Mink, András (2000). "David Irving and the 1956 Revolution". Hungarian Quarterly. 41 (160): 117–128.Anything can happen in those courts. Any victory for Irving will be a loss for truth and historical accuracy." In 1992, Irving signed a contract with Macmillan Publishers for his biography of Joseph Goebbels titled Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. [138] Following charges that Irving had selectively "edited" a recently discovered complete edition of Goebbels's diaries in Moscow, Macmillan cancelled the book deal. [139] The decision by The Sunday Times (who had bought the rights to serialised extracts from the diaries before Macmillan published them) in July 1992 to hire Irving as a translator of Goebbels's diary was criticised by Austrian-British historian Peter G. J. Pulzer, who argued that Irving, because of his views about the Third Reich, was not the best man for the job. [109] Andrew Neil, the editor of The Sunday Times, called Irving "reprehensible", but defended hiring him because he was only a "transcribing technician", which others criticised as a poor description of translation work. [109] After serving in 1959 as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, instead of doing national service, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen AG steel works in the Ruhr area and learned the German language. He then moved to Spain, where he worked as a clerk at an air base. [12]

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In 1991, Irving espoused an antisemitic conspiracy theory when he stated that the Jews "dragged us into two world wars and now, for equally mysterious reasons, they're trying to drag us into the Balkans." [97] He said the case would boil down to two crucial issues. "They are out to prove what they call the Holocaust and the figures - figures I will dispute - and to prove that I'm a corrupt, dishonest and rotten historian." Irving is portrayed by Timothy Spall in the 2016 film Denial, based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. [197] Weidauer, Walter (1965), Inferno Dresden. Über Lügen und Legenden um die Aktion "Donnerschlag.", Dietz Verlag, pp.6, 132, ISBN 3-320-00818-8 In 1995, when Irving was confronted with a Holocaust survivor, he repeated the same claim and asked, "How much money have you made from that piece of ink on your arm, which may indeed be real tattooed ink? Yes. Half a million dollars, three-quarters of a million for you alone?" [96]Writing in 1989 about Irving's Göring biography, the German-Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann declared: A major theme of Irving's writings from the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline. [76] Irving also took the view that Hitler often tried to help the Jews of Europe. [76] In a June 1992 interview with The Daily Telegraph, Irving claimed to have heard from Hitler's naval adjutant that the Führer had told him that he could not marry because Germany was "his bride". [76] Irving then claimed to have asked the naval adjutant when Hitler made that remark, and upon hearing that the date was 24 March 1938, Irving stated in response "Herr Admiral, at that moment I was being born". Irving used this alleged incident to argue that there was some sort of mystical connection between himself and Hitler. [81]

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In 1989, Irving during a speech told an audience that "there is not one shower bath in any of the concentration or slave labour camps that turns out to have been some kind of gas chamber." [93] He described Jewish Holocaust survivors as "liars, psychiatric cases and extortionists." [94] In 1990, Irving said on 5 March that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that "30,000 people at the most were murdered in Auschwitz ... that's about as many as we Englishmen killed in a single night in Hamburg." He reiterated his claim that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz on 5 March 1990 to an audience in Germany: During the same interview, Irving claimed that various Nazis hid what was happening to the Jews from Hitler because he was "the best friend the Jews had in the Third Reich". [171] 2009 Norwegian Festival of Literature In another 1991 speech, this time in Regina, Irving called the Holocaust "a major fraud... There were no gas chambers. They were fakes and frauds". [121]Neither Anthony Julius nor Penguin would comment publicly on the case but a leading Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer, of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, said the trial was a wonderful chance to nail the myth once and for all that the Holocaust did not happen. Eugene Holman (7 January 2007). "David Irving: a study in incompetency and dishonesty". The Holocaust History Project. Irving's daughter Josephine suffered from schizophrenia. [192] She was involved in a car crash in 1996 which resulted in her having to have both of her legs amputated. In September 1999, at the age of 32, she committed suicide by throwing herself out of a window of her central London flat. [193] One of the wreaths sent to her funeral contained a card which stated, "Truly a merciful death, Philipp Bouhler and friends". [192] The reference to Bouhler was a reference to the Nazi who was in charge of Hitler's euthanasia programme. [192] Irving described it as a "very cruel taunt". [192] In popular culture