David Irving in Athens, Greece, October 24-25, 2005
At the invitation of publisher Constantinos Coridis (below), David Irving (left) visited Athens October 24-25, 2005, to present the Greek edition of The War Between the Generals, and for talks with leading publishers and newspaper and television interviews.
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The visit went ahead despite weeks of intimidation by Communist bodies and KIS, the Greek Jewish Association, and an appeal to the Greek prime minister to prevent Mr Irving from visiting the country.
On the afternoon of October 24, 2005 a film crew arrived from Mega TV. Their Scots-born TV presenter Themie Kamtsiori, 29, interviewed Mr Irving for an hour about The War Between the Generals, and about revelations in “Churchill’s War”, vol. ii: “Triumph in Adversity” for a film project on Pearl Harbor to be broadcast in their “Warzone” series.
For two hours in the evening John Papadopoulos of Agelioforos, the largest newspaper in Thessaloniki, Greece, interviewed Mr Irving.
At one stage he invited comment on half a dozen original and gruesome photographs; they had been taken, seemingly in the closing stages of WW2, by former Greek partisan and saboteur Christos Manolis, of Salonika, while imprisoned in the Nazi camp at Mauthausen, Austria.
Mr Irving’s comment was that while he himself was not qualified to judge, a pathologist viewing the photographs would probably conclude that the emaciated bodies seen piled up and being handled by (well fed) prisoners in the photos had all died of starvation and disease: and that while they had all died at the hands of criminals, it was unlikely that the Nazis had first emaciated these victims and then gassed them, as history implied.
To be continued
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