Ject: Berkeley Boots Holocaust Denier Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994

free speech Communists Brag about Violence against David Irving’s Speech at the University of California at Berkeley October 13, 1994P DURING the mid-1990s DAVID IRVING was invited several times to address functions at the University of California, at Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech movement of the 1960s. The local Jewish and communist organisations staged violent protests to prevent audiences from hearing him.

From: [email protected] Subject: Berkeley Boots Holocaust Denier Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 02:06:03 -40962758 (PDT) FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS Berkeley Anti-Fascists give Holocaust-denier the Boot Berkeley, October 13, 1994 TWO HUNDRED anti-fascists gathered in Berkeley this evening, disrupting a speech by Holocaust denier David Irving. This infamous British revisionist “historian” has been waging a campaign for what he calls “real history” but what is in fact an insidious pack of lies.

He has written a series of sympathetic biographies of Hitler, Goering, and Rommel and travels around the world lecturing at events sponsored by various pro-Nazi groups including the British Nationalist Party, the German People’s Union, and the Nationale Offensive (Germany). He has been accompanied by Nazi skins and Toronto-based fascist Ernst Zundel, author of The Hitler We Loved and Did Six Million Really Die?

In his home country of Britain, Irving is prevented from speaking publicly by anti-fascists, while in Germany, Canada, and other countries he is banned from entering altogether. Irving was scheduled to give a lecture at the University of California at Berkeley’s Alumni House, which was secretly moved to the YWCA due to protesters already present. Scouts quickly determined the new location and informed the crowd, which them moved en masse to the YWCA.

Finding no police present, protestors stormed the hall, confronting the liar and his supporters. A scuffle ensued as Irving’s bodyguard attacked the protesters; several older Nazis sporting SS pins tried to leave and were subjected to the justified rage of anti-fascists, many of whom had family members interned by these same people. Irving’s literature table was overturned and a box of videotapes, “The Death of the ‘Holocaust’ Legend Begins,” was smashed with great enthusiasm.

Also found were swastika stickers, a German pride button, and other Nazi merchandise.