David Irving

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David Irving (born 1938), English writer on the Second World War who moved from revisionism to outright Holocaust denial. In 2000 he sued Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for libel in the English High Court for calling him a denier, and lost comprehensively: the judge found that he had "deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence" and was "an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist". The judgment (Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt) is the most thorough judicial examination of denial claims ever conducted, and Richard J. Evans's expert report is the definitive account of how Irving's history was falsified.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving

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Holocaust Denial

Basis: Denial literature (Arthur Butz, David Irving, the Institute for Historical Review); misinterpretation or selective quotation of documents; the Argument from Silence that no single written order from Hitler survives.

Deborah Lipstadt

Deborah Lipstadt (born 1947), American historian at Emory University. Denying the Holocaust (1993) was the first systematic study of the denial movement, and its description of David Irving as a denier led him to sue her for libel in Londo…

Richard J. Evans

Sir Richard J. Evans (born 1947), British historian of modern Germany, formerly Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, author of the three-volume history of the Third Reich. Served as the principal expert witness in Irving v Penguin Boo…