Quick navigation  Mr Irving, take me to ...Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai Brith, USA... your main alphabetical index... your current newsletter... where you will be speaking... news on your legal battles... you and your family... your career so far... how to buy your books... how to help your fighting fund... your publishing Home Page... other traditional enemies of Free Speech:Anti-Nazi LeagueAustralian GovernmentAustralian B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation CommissionBoard of Deputies of British JewsCenter for Democratic Renewal, AtlantaCanadian Jewish CongressCanadian League of Human Rights of the B'nai BrithCoalition for Human Dignity, OregonCommunity Security Trust of Board of DeputiesGerman GovernmentJewish Telegraph AgencySearchlight and Gerald GableSimon Wiesenthal CenterSurfwatch Internet censorship  Posted Wednesday, April 7, 1999   The Traditional Enemies of Free Speech try to destroy David Irving:- January 30, 1985 What Hitler Knew and When he Knew it   Date: January 30, 1985, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition Section A; Page 22, Column 4; Editorial Desk Byline: To the Editor: HITLER and the Final Solution by Gerald Fleming ("Books of the Times," Dec. 28) is a welcome addition to the literature of the Holocaust, with its scholarly treatises on Hitler's personal responsibility for the extermination of European Jews. In reviewing Mr. [sic] Fleming's book, D. J. R. Bruckner noted that David Irving argues in his 1977 book, "Hitler's War," that Hitler did not know of the extermination of European Jews until late 1943. Mr. Bruckner described Mr. Irving's "thesis" as "provocative." That hardly seems to be the word for it. Some others come to mind: such as "ludicrous," which is what the chief researcher for Mr. Irving's book called the writer's conclusions; such as "preposterous," which is how Lucy Dawidowicz, the historian of the Holocaust, described the Irving book and its theme; such as "absurd," which is what Werner Koppen, one of Hitler's adjutants, called Mr. Irving's contention. Serious historians are not engaged in the question whether or not Hitler ordered the "Final Solution." Rather, they seek to determine when his controlling decision materialized. The "revisionist" thesis which David Irving presents has been refuted by responsible historians, the latest of them being Gerald Fleming. ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN Associate National Director Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith New York, Jan. 15, 1985   Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company Our opinion Mr Foxman has had a bee in his bonnet about David Irving since 1977 when the ADL first started trying to undermine The Viking Press edition of his biography Hitler's War. Foxman's lies about Mr Irving's "chief researcher" [Dr Elke Fröhlich] and Werner Koeppen, who shortly before he died gave Mr Irving his most treasured possession, a signed Rosenberg photograph, typify his hysteria. Since it took the New York Times two weeks to print the letter, we assume the ADL had to apply more than usual pressure to the newspaper. The above news item is reproduced without editing other than typographical and the addition of illiustrations  Register your name and address to go on the Mailing List to receive [ Go back to AR Online Index | Index to AR.#14 | Go to Main Action Report Index ]

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