David Irving Press Library (January 2000)

From the world’s press your legal battles Some of the Items in David Irving’s Press Clipping Library Private Eye published

on Feb 27, 1970 a memorable skit on Mr Justice Lawton’s summing-up in the PQ17 libel action Auberon Waugh asked: ” I cannot help asking myself what sort of truth requires these sanctions ” after Germany fined David Irving $20,000 Mr Irving “risked 1970 prosecution” over secrets on Field Marshal Milch 1987: Prof.

Richard Evans scoffed that Germany would never be reunified (but Mr Irving got it right) The New Republic, Oct 1996: Jacob Heilbrunn meets the real David Irving Aftonbladet declares (Mar 2000) that Australia has again banned David Irving’s entry Evening Standard (London): Auschwitz comes to Court No 73 CBC Radio interviews Don Guttenplan [text and audio] The Times: Irving ‘doesn’t deserve to be called a historian’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ): Alle Zeugen lügen FAZ: Guten Tag, Herr

Professor Die Welt: David Irving oder Wie man alles leugnetThe Toronto Sun: Publish and be damned Irving’s opinion of Hitler is perverse, claims Keegan National Post (Toronto): David Irving v.

the dead The Guardian: Court 73 – where history is on trial Ha’aretz, Israel: ‘I find the Holocaust endlessly boring’ FAZ Feb 2, 2000: Wer nicht gegen mich ist, der ist für mich L A Jewish Journal appeals for letters of support to Lipstadt The Times: England’s black cricketers left Irving ‘queasy’ National Post (Toronto): Irving repeats ‘denier’ accusations on his Web site The Daily Telegraph: Irving ‘sang racist poem to daughter in her pram’ The Times: Diary reveals Irving’s ode to Aryans

FAZ: Nicht einmal Historiker: David Irving setzt in seinem Prozeß gern auf unbelegte Zahlen [German] The Daily Telegraph: Irving not anti-Semitic, libel case told The Washington Times: Neo-Nazis have short memories FAZ, Feb 3, 2000: David Irving setzt in seinem Prozeß gern auf unbelegte Zahlen Irving not anti-Semitic, libel case told The Independent, London: The Curse of Revisionism Line One News: Auschwitz Document: ‘Shows Genocidal Use’, Court told London Jewish News’ Vicious Smear —

Calls trial timing “convenient” for Irving Dagbladet (Norway): Stiller spørsmÃ¥l | Asking questions Michael Berenbaum in the L A Times: The Growing Assault on the Truth of Absolute Evil Jewish Chronicle, Jan 28, 2000: Irving: gas chambers ‘not used for killing’ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Tücke der Wahrheitsfindung: David Irvings Klage um die Auschwitz-Lüge Historian accused of right-wing extremism Blair welshes on promise to outlaw Holocaust denial Der Anzügliche : Vor Gericht: Irving

macht Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Difficult to counter the deniers, says Goteborgs Posten [ Swedish ] [ English ] No poison supply at Auschwitz, says Irving–Press Association dispatch The Times: Auschwitz death chambers ‘a moral certainty’ El Pais, Madrid: Los purificadores, by well known writer Mario Vargas Llosa [in Spanish] Atlanta Journal Constitution: Holocaust skeptic admits use of flawed evidence | Historians’ views clash in court The Guardian: Author tells of “massive” proof for gas

chambers The Times, Jan 24, 2000: Cyanide was used to kill lice’ claims Irving Lies and the Holocaust, Politiken, Jan 25, 2000 Associated Press report, Jan 24, 2000 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Irving präsentiert einen Zeugen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Jan 23, 2000 on the trial David Irving nails Andrew Roberts’ latest lie in The Sunday Telegraph Madrid’s El Mundo has an super-neutral gossip piece by Bernard Henry-Levy [in Spanish] Chicago Tribune, Jan 23, 2000: Defender of Hitler Sues

Critics — and puts Holocaust on Trial Tagesspiegel, Berlin: The mediocre monster wasting the High Court’s time | [ English ] Australian Jewish News Herald Sun forced to Suppress Lipstadt-Trial Poll Results | on role of Lipstadt in suppressing St Martins press edition of Goebbels biography The Times: Irving insists that Hitler did not order the Holocaust In Sydney Morning Herald, Alan Gold says “Philosophy of hate has no room for truth ” (and he invents new word: denialism) Liberation (Paris):

Irving est un homme dangereux, parce qu’il a du talent Chicago Tribune reports trial opening, Jan 12, 2000 Daily Telegraph, Jan 18, 2000: Nazi trains carried ample food for Jews, says Irving New York Daily News, Jan 16, 2000: Putting the Holocaust on Trial Tampa Tribune prints a reader’s squeal [continued on next panel] Die Welt surveys first trial week Jan 17, 2000 profil (Vienna) interviews David Irving about Lipstadt trial The Times, Jan 13, 2000: Irving says Holocaust ‘logistically

impossible’ Daily Telegraph, Jan 13, 2000: Mass gassing of Jews not feasible, says Irving Jan 12, 2000 N Y Times reports opening statements in High Court libel case againsst Lipstadt The Guardian reports (Jan 8, 2000) on coming Lipstadt libel action Taz, Berlin: dialogue between ADL and internet expert on “rightwing” website dangers Newsday, Long Island, reports on coming “trial of the century” (David Irving v Penguin, Lipstadt) ” Emory’s Deborah Lipstadt prepares to do battle with Holocaust

Denier David Irving “, Atlanta Jewish Times, Oct 8, 2000 Oct 28, 2000 Manhatten Jewish Sentinel fears “dangerous” Irving’s London action could put Holocaust itself on trial Nov 18, 2000, The Irish Times OpEd backs David Irving Nov 16, 2000: Riot in Ireland, Police halt David Irving Speech: Dublin , Cork items Worried report by Jerusalem Post, Sept 24, 2000, about the January 2000 London libel action against Deborah Lipstadt Adam LeBor in Jewish Chronicle criticises Union of Jewish Students for

its plans to disrupt performances of a controversial play , repeating mistake it made against Mr Irving in 1981 Gitta Sereny has a bee in her bonnet about Mrs Fröhlich and Mr Irving (S. Times, Jul 24, 1977) Der Spiegel editorial heaps praise on David Irving, August 21, 1978 [ in German ] Daily Telegraph, August 21, 1984 Hitler Diaries Trial Opens.

David Irving gives evidence The Times, July 11, 1986: “Historian wins action over deportation” Toronto Star and Globe & Mail, April 23, 1988: report on David Irving’s testimony in Zündel hearing [ in German ] Jewish Chronicle, London, June 23, 1989: “Storm over ‘evil’ book” [The Leuchter Report] Jewish Chronicle, London, June 30, 1989: “Irving publisher’s won’t drop him” Jewish Chronicle, London, November 24, 1989: “Wanted: David Irving” Daily Telegraph, Mar 9, 1990, quotes Irving on

German journalists: “the horizon of a lavatory lid” dpa [agency]-profile, June 18, 1990: “Historiker David Irving auf dem Weg in die deutsche Politik” [ in German ] La Nación, Buenos Aires, October 18, 1991: “La DAIA advirtió sobre un ‘agitador internacional'” [in Spanish] Evening Standard, Jan 1992: “Books that Offend” (bookshop cancels signing) Johannesburg Star, May 6, 1992: report on Munich court hearing The Daily Telegraph, May 6, 1992: German court rejects Irving appeal The Cape Times,

Capetown, Jun 5, 1992: “Visa snag for rightist” The New Statesman, July 10, 1992: “Bad and Dangerous” by David Cesarani [with David Irving’s comments] Allgemeine jüdische Wochenzeitung, Bonn, July 16, 1992: “Moskaus Archive bringen neue Wahrheiten ans Licht.” [ in German] Sam Dickson writes to Sunday Times, July 26, 1992: no links to the Klan The Oregonian, Oct 16, 1992: “Group Blasts Revisionist Historian Irving” The Atlanta Journal, Oct 21, 1992: Levitas and his Mobspitters disrupt Smyrna

lecture The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct 29, 1992: “Cops nab Irving in Victoria.” Canadian Jewish News, Toronto, November 3, 1992: “Irving Defies Law” Toronto Sun, November 14, 1992: “Irving Booted Out of Canada” | “Racists Clash With Foes ” Boston Jewish Advocate, Dec 1992: “Australia Urged to Bar Entry of Holocaust Denier” When The Observer had to retract an attack

on Jan 17, 1993 Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Ontario, Canada, Sunday Feb 13, 1993: “Australia bans Nazi apologist” New Zealand Herald, February 25, 1993, analyses origins of Jewish influence on successive Australian governments The Dominion, New Zealand, April 3, 1993:” NZ unlikely to ban right-wing historian” Sam Lipski reviews Irving video in The Australian, May 21, 1993 May 30, 1993: Australian newspapers report: “Israeli secret agents linked with bugging” device found in Irving Video

Censorship Bureau Scottish Jewish Telegraph , May 28, 1993: “Israel has only 10 years left, says Holocaust row man” Robert Manne explains The Age, July 7, 1993, why he denies David Irving a right to free speech (because he disagrees with him) The Age, Melbourne, Sept. 19, 1994 Prof. Laurence Maher states that the Migration Act was passed “to keep David Irving out of Australia.”

Brighton Evening Argus, August 26, 1994: Thug’s defence lawyer tells court that Mr Irving had been overheard saying he was on his way to desecrate a Jewish cemetery | Daily Telegraph and Independent on same court hearing The Oregonian, October 10, 1994 San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 1994: “Author’s Talk Spurs Anti-Nazi Protest” March 8, 1996: Jewish Bulletin of Northern California has Jewish Telegraph Agency article linking David Irving to Oklahoma City bombing.

Le Soleil, Montreal, April 5, 1996: “L’historien révisionniste David Irving est mis en échec” [in French] The Detroit News, June 4, 1996: “Old moral equivalency remains alive.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 27, 1996, on the day David Irving won a court victory for free speech Libellous article by Michael Kapel in Australia/Israel Review, Oct 1, 1996: “Hitler’s Willing Helpers.”

Dagbladet, Oslo, February 27, 1997 [in Norwegian] Australian Herald Sun, December 11, 1997: “New ban on Irving” New York Times, January 21, 1998: “Hitler’s Genocide Order: 5 Days After Pearl Harbor?”

The Willamette Week, April 22, 1998 The Calgary Herald, July 29, 1998: “Brink’s suspect linked to white supremacists” The Independent (London) March 22, 2000 reviews Nick Fraser’s TV smear-film Journey to the Far Right Berliner Morgenpost: When did Göring say “Call me Meier?” — if at all [in German] Sydney Morning Herald Feature article Apr 17, 2000 on Germany’s Arrest of historian Fredrick Toben Central Washington University newspaper The Observer, May 6, 2000: “David Irving speaks to a

packed Chavez Theater Tuesday” New York Times, Jun 26, 2000, asks, “Can a Holocaust skeptic still be a great historian? British writer David Irving’s books have been praised by some of the most eminent scholars in his field.” Ellensburg student (?) Bruce Herman says that hearing Irving speak at the US university was (for him) unpleasant. (Two hundred students disagreed). [under construction]