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Documents on Auschwitz Letter from David Irving to Robert van Pelt offering a critique of his book Auschwitz from 1270 to the Present (Yale University Press) May 29, 1997 To: Robert Jan van Pelt, Professor of Cultural History, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Professor Pelt has not so far (March 1999) even acknowledged this letter or replied. For a really insolent response to it from another hardened critic, see Jamie McCarthy’s 1999 effort.
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