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David John Cawdell Irving è un saggista britannico, specializzato nella storia militare della seconda guerra mondiale.

È l'autore di una trentina di libri, tra cui Apocalisse a Dresda , La guerra di Hitler , La guerra di Churchill .

La reputazione di Irving come storico è stata ampiamente screditata dopo lo scoppio di una violenta polemica con la storica statunitense Deborah Lipstadt, cui seguì una causa per diffamazione intentata nel 1996 da Irving stesso contro la Lipstadt e l'editore Penguin Books. Nella successiva sentenza - che rigettò la causa, dando torto a Irving - la corte osservò che Irving stesso era un "attivo negatore dell'Olocausto", antisemita e razzista, nonché "associato con degli estremisti di destra che promuovono il neonazismo". Il giudice affermò anche che Irving aveva "per le sue ragioni ideologiche continuativamente e deliberatamente manipolato e alterato l'evidenza storica".

David Irving fu arrestato in Austria l'11 novembre 2005; il 20 febbraio 2006 fu riconosciuto colpevole da un tribunale per "aver glorificato ed essersi identificato con il Partito Nazionalsocialista Tedesco dei Lavoratori", cosa che in Austria è punita, secondo la legge della Verbotsgesetz e in base a tale sentenza fu condannato a tre anni di reclusione.

✵ 24. Marzo 1938
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David Irving: Frasi in inglese

“If the Jews were killed at Auschwitz or Treblinka or anywhere else…it wasn't a crime because they were Jews, it was a crime because they were innocent Jews who were being killed. It was their innocence that made…it a crime and not their Jewishness that made it a crime.”

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“There is no doubt at all that the Nazis in their twelve-year rule inflicted nameless horrors on large segments of their population, including the Jews, and other people whom they disliked. There's no doubt about that at all. What I do question are the methods…”

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“The interesting questions are what did Hitler know, did Himmler conceal it, did he keep it from Hitler, where was the killing done, was it Auschwitz, was it the Reinhard camps and that's what people are frightened to research, because they go to prison for it.”

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Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)

“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.”

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The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel — 1988: David Irving http://www.ihr.org/books/kulaszka/35irving.html.

“When I get to Australia in January I know what is going to happen. They are going to wheel out all the so-called eyewitnesses. One in particular, Mrs. Altman, I've clashed with once or twice. She is very convincing. They can be very convincing. Because they have to do it so often over the years. They've had a free run. We're going to meet because she has that tattoo. I am going to say,'You have that tattoo, we all have the utmost sympathy for you. But how much money have you made on it! In the last 45 years! Can I estimate! Quarter of a million! Half million! Certainly not less. That's how much you've made from the German taxpayers and the American taxpayers.' Ladies and gentlemen, you're paying $3 billion a year to the State of Israel. Compensation to people like Mrs. Altman. She'll say,'Why not, I suffered.' I'll say you didn't. You survived. By definition you didn't suffer. Not half as much as those who died…. They suffered. You didn't. You're the one making the money. Explain to me this. Why have you people made all the money, but Australian soldiers who suffered for five years in Japanese prison camps haven't got a bent nickel out of it!”

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Speech in Portland, OR. September 18, 1996 http://www.adl.org/holocaust/denier_quotes.asp

“I'm not going to say it was 'only' a hundred thousand Jews that were killed in Auschwitzs because even if one Jew is murdered that's a crime.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgGP_evkvOk

“What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.”

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Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_irving_20061223.ram

“The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews…”

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Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)

“I am not anti-coloured, take it from me; nothing pleases me more than when I arrive at an airport, or a station, or a seaport, and I see a coloured family there — the black father, the black wife and the black children… When I see these families arriving at the airport I am happy, and when I see them leaving at London airport I am happy.
But if there is one thing that gets up my nose, I must admit, it is this — the way… the thing is when I am down in Torquay and I switch on my television and I see one of them reading our news to us. It is our news and they’re reading it to me. If I was a chauvinist I would say I object even to seeing women reading our news to us.
But now we have women reading our news to us. If they could perhaps have their own news which they were reading to us, I suppose [laughter], it would be very interesting.
For the time being, for a transitional period I'd be prepared to accept that the BBC should have a dinner-jacketed gentleman reading the important news to us, following by a lady reading all the less important news, followed by Trevor McDonald giving us all the latest news about the muggings and the drug busts…”

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David Irving's Talk to the Clarendon Club http://www.fpp.co.uk/speeches/speech190992.html

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