the Dresden air raids 1945 The SO MANY innocents were killed in the 1945 British air raid on Dresden that the German authorities had to cremate the bodies on mass funeral pyres on the Altmarkt. Mr Irving was the first to publish these photographs in the west.
When he produced one of them, enlarged to poster size, in the British High Court in 2000, Defence Counsel Richard Rampton QC sneered, “So what!” — The officer with his arms behind his back above is identified as Max Fünfack (see below). MR RAMPTON: Can we forget Dresden for the moment, Mr Irving?
MR. IRVING: I can never forget Dresden. [Transcript, DJC Irving vs Penguin Books Ltd & Lipstadt , Day 7, January 20, 2000, page 170;