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David Irivng’s Press Release: Historian David Irving speaking in US cities Now isn’t that just typically J. to want to see something before anyody else does.
She can count herself lucky this is a photo suitable for public viewing; I understand that others exist.To editors Press Release [NOT YET HYPERLINKED] CONTROVERSIAL UK WW2 HISTORIAN, JAILED BY AUSTRIANS, SPEAKS IN [CITY] David Irving, noted author of thirty WW2 histories published by mainstream US publishers (including Simon & Schuster, William Morrow, Doubleday, Little Brown), many of them best sellers, is visiting
[city] privately to speak to a select audience on [date]. He is available for telephone interview on 305 923 6779, and can be reached at [email protected]. He has spoken several times before in [city], and his theme this time is: “Re-writing history, using the decoded Nazi messages.”
Britain secretly employed an astonishing 30,000 men and women in her code-breaking agency in WW2; the British government rewarded Irving for keeping the so-called Enigma secret until 1974 by giving him exclusive access to their thick file of original papers of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the legendary “Desert Fox” and opponent of Dwight D Eisenhower and Omar Bradley in Normandy. Irving’s best-seller The Trail of the Fox was the result.
Latterly he has become the object of censorship and condemnation for the nuanced [adjective?] view he takes in Hitler’s War (The Viking Press; Macmillan; Avon books, etc.), his blockbuster biography of the wartime Nazi leader.
After St Martins Press were intimidated at the last minute into dropping publication of his Joseph Goebbels biography, the late Gordon Craig, doyen of US historians, said of Mr Irving in The New York Review of Books , September 16, 1996: “Silencing Mr Irving would be a high price to pay for freedom from the annoyance that he causes us. The fact is that he knows more about National Socialism than most professional scholars in his field.”
The campaign against Irving climaxed in November 2005 when Austrian secret state police ambushed him and imprisoned him under the 1945 Stalin-era “prohibition law,” ludicrously accusing him of “rehabilitating the Nazi regime”; he spent fourteen months in solitary confinement in a six-foot square cell in Vienna, writing new books including memoirs.
He is currently writing about the chief of the infamous black-uniformed SS and real architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler – based on diaries, private letters, and documents that no other historian has seen. People wishing to hear Mr Irving in [city] or elsewhere have to register online at irvingbooks.com/functions For reproducible