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HIS name is Charles Gray (right). As a barrister (i.e. the only kind of English lawyer who can plead a case in court), he won Lord Aldington's libel action against…
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Motgift mot Irvings historiesyn
His witnesses testified without payment, from conviction. [ Help ! ] |Return to Clippings Index | ©Focal Point 2000 write to David Irving
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Holocaust Historian Loses Lawsuit
Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Tuesday, April 11, 2000 Holocaust Historian Loses Lawsuit By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) -- Historian David Irving , who has outraged survivors...
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British judge throws out historian’s complaint against U.S. professor, branding the controversial British author a racist and an anti-Semite
S. professor, branding the controversial British author a racist and an anti-Semite ALAN FREEMAN European Bureau London -- Historian David Irving emerged unrepentant yesterday after losing a landmark...
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“IL GIORNALE”
Nobody was paying for Mr Irving, who has been fighting this battle for three whole years. Nor did he pay his defence witnesses one cent or sous: they testified from…
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Historian Loses Libel Suit on Holocaust View
Column Two. Historian Loses Libel Suit on Holocaust View By MARJORIE MILLER Times Staff Writer LONDON--Britain's High Court called Hitler biographer David Irving "anti-Semitic and racist" in a...
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The Hamilton Spectator
Incidentally, Prof. Werner Heisenberg (whom "amateur historian" David Irving interviewed twice) wrote a brilliant whole page review of Irving's book The German Atomic Bomb in the Frankfurter...
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A survey from on high
" In continental Europe, the Irving judgment was mostly confined to inside pages, except in Italy, where it was fronted in several newspapers. La Repubblica of Rome Wednesday carried an…
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Le Monde — Apr 2000
Nor did he pay his defence witnesses one cent or sous: they testified from conviction, not for reward. [ Help ! ] |Return to Clippings Index | © Focal Point…
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No more the mere maverick
" He reduced Rampton to groans, and objections, by backsliding from positions he had already conceded. At times, his argument was puerile. When he was accused of associating with neo-Nazis,…
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Quietly floored by the don
" Perhaps it was due to tiredness -- as proceedings wore on, he became visibly more haggard, the result of day after day on his feet in the courtroom and…
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Humiliated author makes a back-door exit
Removing the jacket of his pinstripe suit -- which had been splattered by egg-throwing protesters on his arrival at the court -- he leaned forward as Judge Gray praised him…
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Neues Deutschland
] April 15, 2000 Website fact: The stamina of the defence team in the Lipstadt libel action was aided by a six million dollar slushfund provided by Steven Spielberg, Edgar…
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The battle may be over – but the war goes on
The defence lawyers are seeking an archive nerd who wants 92 lever-arch binders of Holocaust documents, each in seven copies. And yet the great three-month libel trial refuses to go…
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Hunt for Irving’s backers as lawyers seek £2m costs
. . No such legal moves have yet been taken agaisnt Hamilton's financial supporters in the UK. London, Sunday, April 16, 2000 |Return to Clippings Index | ©Focal Point 2000…
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The Step From Holocaust Denial to Nationalism
IDEOLOGY The Step From Holocaust Denial to Nationalism By Jacob Heilbrunn , Washington David Irving's failure to win his libel suit against American academic Deborah E. Lipstadt last week has…
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Judging history
" Rampton says having Gray as his adversary in Aldington v Tolstoy was "the one ray of light" in the case. "He was a wonderful opponent. It was a very…
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The slippery slope of anti-semitism
washtimes.com/op-ed/ed-column-200041719232.htm The slippery slope of anti-semitism Suzanne Fields Now it's official. Auschwitz was not built by the Poles as a "tourist attraction" after World War II,...
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Irvings Furor
-- David Irving Berlin, April 17 , 2000 [ Pictures added by this website ] Irvings Furor Von Lord Weidenfeld DAVID Irving erlebte am 11. April [sic. 12. April] nicht…
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Irving says he will still not be silenced
A million pound lollipop was figuratively brandished from the defence lawyers' table throughout the trial, and all those who behaved got a lick at it; their experts like the "scholars"…
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