The Jewish Holocaust controversy David Irving’s co

the Jewish Holocaust controversy David Irving’s comments on the expert Richard Evans Alphabetical site index (text) Answer : I don’t want to get into a prick-comparison contest, particularly when one of us is such a bigger prick than the other.

April 29, 2000 (Saturday) London (England) Varsity [the Cambridge University newspaper] asks me to comment on points made by Prof Richard Evans in an interview: HERE are some limited responses, bearing in mind that I proceed from here to an appeal. I formed a low impression of Evans’ abilities.

He appeared clearly motivated by malice from the outset, although he denied this; the malice was evident to every person in the public gallery, and many commented on it to me.

I was astonished by his ignorance of Third Reich personalities, terminology and events; asked a relatively easy question, as the transcripts show — I have posted them in full at https://fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/transcripts.html he usually refused to answer from his own knowledge, but insisted on referring to his written report.

He did this so often that the Court realised that the report had evidently been written for him by others, or by him so long ago that he had forgotten meanwhile what he had written. I.e., the knowledge was not properly imbibed. He ducked and dodged every significant direct question, reading out instead pages of the sludge of which his dreary report consisted. Small wonder that his was the only report on which even the Judge passed a negative comment in his findings.

My advisers advised me to go less easy on this professor of history, and to expose his total ignorance of both the language and the history more ruthlessly: e.g., not to inform him that Albert Speer was Hitler’s munitions minister, but to ask him if he knew what Speer was; I thought at that time he probably knew the answers, but when I tested him on a really easy name — “You are aware who Otto Abetz was, are you not?” he came back with the answer that the lawyers had no doubt rehearsed for

such emergencies: namely, “You will have to remind me.” (Abetz was Hitler’s ambassador to Paris throughout the war occupation years; yet Evans did not even know that). I then regretted that I had not shown up his ignorance earlier.

To my astonishment, from the first moment he showed the utmost discourtesy to me (and the Court) by standing, a little dumpy scowling Welshman, with both hands thrust deep into his trouser pockets fumbling with something — I imagine counting his cash — throughout the days he was in the witness stand, and on occasion turning his