5. Brief description of areas of expertise: (a) as an historian: the careers of the
principal Nazi leaders, including specifically
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Dr Joseph
Goebbels; the archival and documentary evidence
for assertions about those careers, and the part
they played in the Third Reich; the current
state of research into the German and other
wartime persecution and liquidation of the
European Jewish communities; the conflicting
views which have emerged on that history,
including but not limited to the so-called
Historikerstreit (Historians' Dispute)
raging in Germany since 1977; further, on the
perceived role of the Jewish people in directing
the Soviet revolution, managing the Soviet
police state, and running the satellite nations
in the Soviet empire until its recent collapse,
with special reference to their role in the
ÁVH (Álamvedelmy Hatosag),
Hungarian secret police, before the Budapest
Uprising of 1956, on which I published a
well-received history, based on CIA materials,
in 1981(b) as a writer, international lecturer, and
publisher: the problems of establishing,
publishing, printing, and disseminating
controversial and often distasteful minority
views which run counter to the prevailing or
received opinions of the majority; (c) as a writer, international lecturer, and
publisher: the tortious methods used by specific
international organisations to attack the basic,
and in many countries including the Commonwealth
of Australia chartered, fundamental human rights
of individuals including the rights to freedom
of speech, freedom of association, and freedom
of thought. (d) general: I was one of a number of persons
visited by Dr Toben on his recent world-wide
tour of historical sites, during which visit he
discussed with, and was advised on by, me and
others the proper and dispassionate approaches
to those sites. 6. Although a best-selling, high-profile
professional historian, I have been subjected to a
thirty-year campaign of boycotting, hounding,
persecution and de facto punishment by
organisations based in the U.K., Australia, and
elsewhere overseas, all, it has to be regretted,
primarily Jewish in character, to harass, vilify,
threaten, assault, silence, and permanently
commercially ruin me. Many details of their
disgraceful actions have come to light only in
consequence of lawsuits which I have instituted for
defamation in the U.K. and Australia, and under due
procedures initiated by myself or my agents in
Canada and the United States under those countries'
Access to Information and Freedom of Information
Acts respectively, on which discoveries I can also
testify. I am aware of, and can testify about,
other historians who have similarly suffered. 7. These opponents, shying away, one and all,
from the daylight of fair public debate and
inquiry, have done their dirty work by clandestine
means, furnishing perjured statements about me (and
no doubt others) to foreign governments and
starting whispering campaigns against me; they have
themselves (to use the words of the Act) "offended,
insulted, humiliated and intimidated" me, entirely
because of my beliefs; they have applied violent
and/or psychological pressure to my publishers to
violate fair contracts freely entered into, even
forcing them on one occasion (The Sunday Times,
London in the summer of 1992) to refuse to pay
moneys owing to me under such a contract (under
which I had provided to the newspaper the diaries
of Nazi propaganda minister Dr Joseph Goebbels,
which I had retrieved from a secret Moscow
archives). Among their methods of intimidation,
which bear a close similarity to the methods used
by the Nazis in the 1930s, these organisations have
in the U.K. started campaigns of book-burning and
window-smashing against bookstores, and blackmailed
printers in Britain and Denmark, to my knowledge,
to abandon production plans for books. 8. In my testimony which I shall put before the
hearing I shall give the details, supported by
documentary evidence, of the methods which these
opponents have relied upon, and are relying upon
also in Australia against victims like Dr Toben -
whose own views are immaterial to this
argument. 9. I understand that the principal complainant
in the above-referenced action is one Jeremy
Jones. 10. The aforementioned Jones was formerly
Research Officer of the New South Wales Jewish
Board of Deputies. ("Research officer" is the
euphemism for Intelligence officer, and in most
nations this position in Jewish community
organisations is held by a full-time agent of The
Mossad, a foreign Intelligence service). Latterly
the complainant has been Sydney Bureau chief for
Australia/Israel Publications and is since March
1997 de facto "foreign minister" of the
Australian Jewish community. 11. I aver that I shall be able to testify to
the inquiry on the following issues specifically
referring to this complainant insofar as they have
a direct bearing on his complaint: (a) Mr Jones is one official of a
number of Australian organisations, all, it has
again to be regretted, primarily Jewish in
character, which have arrogated to themselves
the task of policing, by fair means or foul, the
entry into Australia of ideas and opinions which
they perceive as threatening their interests,
whether vital or commercial or other. By these
methods, which in my submission have brought
discredit to their entire community, a few
individuals have caused me great offence and
distress on a continental scale throughout
Australia, and it is my belief that those public
and high-profile methods have generated far
greater antisemitism among the Australian
public, whose opinion I have been closely
following, than any of the respondent'
publications complained of.(b) In my specific case, the complainant Mr
Jones, upon learning that I had engaged to enter
Australia in 1992 for a third lecture tour at
universities and private audiences, organised or
participated in a campaign:- to suppress and violate my rights to
express my properly and sincerely-held views
which are legal within the laws of the
Commonwealth of Australia, andto suppress furthermore and violate the
rights of the putative Australian audiences
to hear me express those views. He conducted this hate-campaign by mounting a
disgraceful campaign of agitation and smears
against me, which rose to such a crescendo that
I was obliged to instruct solicitors in Perth,
WA, to commence proceedings for libel and
defamation against him, against the newspapers
publishing his venomous and hate-filled
outpourings, and against other journalists
emulating him. These actions Mr Jones and his fellow defendants
legally but immorally defended by (i) obtaining
court Orders for them to be heard in eastern
Australia, at prohibitive expense for myself as
Plaintiff; and (ii) obtaining court orders for
security for costs, which effectively brought the
actions to a halt (the notorious defence of "we
shall feel free to lie because the Plaintiff is too
poor to defend himself"). The actions were perforce
discontinued, each side paying their own costs.
Disregarding the terms of the consent order, Mr
Jones has continued to libel and vilify me, in
newspapers and on major television programmes,
believing himself to be at a safe distance from our
own jurisdiction. David
Irving London the fifth day of November 1997 |
David Irving