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Broszat, Martin (1985) [1977]. "Hitler and the Genesis of the 'Final Solution': An Assessment of David Irving's Theses". Aspects of the Third Reich[ "Hitler and the Genesis of the 'Final Solution': An Assessment of David Irving's Theses"]. Vol.13. London: Macmillan. pp.390–429. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-17891-9_13. ISBN 0-333-35272-6. Although Irving denies being a racist, [126] he has expressed racist and antisemitic sentiments, both publicly and privately. [127] Irving has often expressed his belief in the conspiracy theory of Jews secretly ruling the world, and that the belief in the reality of the Holocaust was manufactured as part of the same alleged conspiracy. [55] Irving used the label "traditional enemies of the truth" to describe Jews, and in a 1963 article about a speech by Sir Oswald Mosley wrote that the "Yellow Star did not make a showing". [55] In 1992, Irving stated that "the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time" and claimed he "foresees a new wave of antisemitism" the world over due to Jewish "exploitation of the Holocaust myth". [109] During an interview with the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Irving restated his belief that Jews were his "traditional enemy". [128] In one interview cited in the libel lawsuit, Irving also stated that he would be "willing to put [his] signature" to the "fact" that "a great deal of control over the world is exercised by Jews". [129]Harris, Robert (1986). Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14726-7. David Irving commented that he had not been told that the festival was going to present him as a liar, [177] and that he was preparing a lecture about the real history of what took place in Norway during World War II, contrary to what official historians have presented. Irving stated that he had thought the Norwegian people to be made of tougher stuff. [179] Holocaust denial Movement towards Holocaust denial Ernst Zündel trial Holocaust denial lecture circuit By the late 1980s, Irving had placed himself outside the mainstream of the study of history, and had begun to turn from "'soft-core' to 'hard-core' Holocaust denial", possibly influenced by the 1988 trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. [4] That trial, and his reading of the pseudoscientific [Note 1] Leuchter report, led him to openly espouse Holocaust denial, specifically denying that Jews were murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz concentration camp. [5] [6] 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]

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Sydnor Jr, Charles W. (June 1979), "The Selling of Adolf Hitler: David Irving's Hitler's War", Central European History, vol.12, no.2, pp.169–99, doi: 10.1017/s0008938900022342, S2CID 143831047 After dropping out of university - he got 11 A-levels - and spending a year as a steelworker in the Ruhr while learning German, Irving made his name with a book about the allied bombing of Dresden and biographies of Rommel and Rudolf Hess. In a footnote in the first edition of Hitler's War, Irving writes, "I cannot accept the view ... [that] there exists no document signed by Hitler, Himmler or Heydrich speaking of the extermination of the Jews". [75] In 1982, Irving temporarily stopped writing and made an attempt to unify all of the various far-right splinter groups in Britain into one party called Focus, in which he would play a leading role. [45] Irving described himself as a "moderate fascist" and spoke of plans to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, [76] but his efforts to move into politics, which he regarded at the time as very important, failed due to fiscal problems. [45] Irving told the Oxford Mail of having "links at a low level" with the National Front (NF). [45] Irving described The Spotlight, the main journal of the Liberty Lobby, as "an excellent fortnightly paper". [45] At the same time, Irving put a copy of Hitler's " Prophecy Speech" of 30 January 1939, promising the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" if "Jewish financiers" started another world war, onto his wall. [77]

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." Lipstadt hired the British solicitor Anthony Julius to present her case, while Penguin Books hired Kevin Bays and Mark Bateman, libel specialist from media firm Davenport Lyons. They briefed the libel barrister Richard Rampton QC and Penguin also briefed junior barrister Heather Rogers. The defendants (with Penguin's insurers paying the fee) also retained Professor Richard J. Evans, historian and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, as an expert witness. Also working as expert witnesses were the American Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, the German historian Peter Longerich, and the Dutch architectural expert Robert Jan van Pelt. The last wrote a report attesting to the fact that the death camps were designed, built and used for the purpose of mass murder, while Browning testified for the reality of the Holocaust. Evans' report was the most comprehensive, in-depth examination of Irving's work: In the 1988 Zündel trial, Irving repeated and defended his claim from Hitler's War that until October 1943 Hitler knew nothing about the actual implementation of the Final Solution. He also expressed his evolving belief that the Final Solution involved " atrocities", not systematic murder: "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." [102] [ unreliable source?] Similarly, Irving disputed the common held view among historians that the Wannsee Conference meeting on 20 January 1942 was when the extermination of Jews in the near future or later was discussed, he argued: The Leuchter Report, a pseudo-scientific document which allegedly proves that Zyklon B was not used to exterminate human beings, was translated into Arabic and sold at the International Book Fair in Cairo in January 2001." Roth, Stephen. Stephen Roth Institute. Antisemitism Worldwide, 2000/1, University of Nebraska Press, 2002, p. 228. Irving had pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust in two speeches on a visit to Austria in 1989, but said at the trial that he had later changed his views.