The 1944 Letter from Poland to Attlee about Auschwitz

David
Irving comments:

DR DERING (that was his real name) sued my publisher William Kimber and his author Leon Uris in the London High Court for alleging that he was a brutal Auschwitz doctor; he won the libel action, but was awarded the smallest coin of the realm, one halfpenny, by the jury.

Uris had written the novel
Exodus, and made a number of monstrous claims about operations performed without anesthetic by
“Dehring”, unaware that not only was there a real Dr
Dering, who had been interned at Auschwitz, and forced to work in the camp hospital, but that he was alive and well, and living in Ealing, West London.

When I first came into Kimber’s stable as an author in 1961, he was literally knee-deep in the disgusting files he had been obliged to read about the goings-on at Auschwitz. He wanly advised me, “Never ever get involved in a libel action, dear boy.”

Because he and Uris had paid a small sum of money into court, under the rules of the game Dering, although the victor, was ordered to pay the costs. He beat the lawyers at their own game, by dying first, leaving Kimber stiffed with the entire financial burden.