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this website] I
can only express regret on the part of Foxtel
that it slipped through our normal editorial
processes. 
 Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Foxtel pulls
plug on Hitler doco
by Imre
Salusinszky FOXTEL chief Kim Williams
is "acutely embarrassed" his network put to air a
documentary about Adolf Hitler written by
Holocaust
denier David
Irving.  David
Irving comments: AN interesting object
lesson in AWPOW -- Are We Powerful or
What?
The two-hour film
edition of Hitler's War was produced by a
reputable Scots production company,
Lamancha Productions Ltd., and has been
marketed worldwide by Castle Hill Films.
It has been shown scores of times on
national television channels, including
PBS in the United States and even in
Israel.
Now come these worthy
gentlemen in Australia, and we need not
even speculate as to what particular
species of gentlemen they are: they crook
one finger, and the supremely unworthy
gentlemen of Australian television come
cringing and groveling and gibbering, and
they promise never, ever to show that
particular film again.
Nobody has ever
suggested that it contains any of the
defects mentioned by these objectors. So -
what is it that they are objecting to?
And can the protestors,
with their pea-sized brains, encompass the
thought that by their worldwide behavior
they are perhaps conjuring up and calling
down upon themselves and their more
innocent fellows, a few years hence, yet
another of those atrocities that they call
a Holocaust, while they snivel once again:
Why Us?
  Oxford
student Louise clutches a copy of the
banned video, Hitler's War, when
she meets author David Irving at a
militaria show in Kent, July
2007
BUY
THE VIDEO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF -- VISIT
IRVINGBOOKS.COM AND CLICK ON "Video
DVDs"  Notice,
incidentally, how the reasons for Austria
imprisoning me vary as we go around the
world.
Here in Australia readers are
told "Irving served a 10-month prison
sentence in Austria last year for
associating with neo-Nazi groups"
-- elsewhere it is for Holocaust
denial.
Soon it will be for
paedophilia, or for accosting men in
public lavatories disguised as a US
Senator.
In
fact: Austria sentenced me to three years
jail for Wiederbetätigung,
literally reactivation (of the Nazi
Party!) under a Stalin-era law passed in
1945, on account of a lecture I had
delivered sixteen years earlier, on
November 6,
1989.
The law is also called
the Verbotsgesetz, or Banning
Law.
Grotesquely,
"democratic" and "Free Speech" Austria
still has this law on its statute book and
uses it to jail people of whose views it
disapproves -- on this particular occasion
it was at the written request (November 7,
1989) of a Jewish-Marxist body, the
Dokumentationsarchiv des Widerstandes.
AWPOW! |
 The
Australian has learnt that an episode of The
War Files, broadcast on the History Channel on
Saturday, was a condensed version of Irving's book,
Hitler's War.Irving, who is banned
from entering Australia, scripted and produced
the documentary, which he sells to supporters on
DVD for about $50. Mr Williams has pulled the
series and ordered an investigation. "My reaction
is one of dismay," he said yesterday. "It has been
stopped and will not be transmitted again. I can
only express regret on the part of Foxtel that it
slipped through our normal editorial
processes." The slip-up was first noticed by former Hawke
government minister Barry Cohen, who wrote
to Mr Williams. "What struck me, as someone who has had a
lifetime interest in this period for highly
personal reasons, was that the documentary film was
not unduly critical of Hitler, particularly with
regard to the mass murder of Jews, Poles,
homosexuals and gypsies," he wrote. "In fact, it
was barely mentioned. The impression given was that
he was a kindly old gentleman who made some unwise
military decisions." Mr Williams replied to Mr Cohen that "there can
be no excuse for such an offensive program seeing
the light of day" and offered "an immediate and
unreserved apology". Mr Cohen said yesterday Mr Williams had "handled
it as well as anyone could possibly do". Irving served a 10-month prison sentence in
Austria last year for associating with neo-Nazi
groups. In 2000 he lost a libel action against
Penguin Books. The judge said Irving was an active
Holocaust denier.
Forget Cohen - this is what the real experts said
about my Hitler's War:
"IT was
thoroughly researched and employed a variety of
themes. . . It also confirmed Irving's
reputation as one of the world's most thorough
researchers and an exciting and readable
historian."- Board of Deputies
of British Jews, 1992, secret
report "NO praise can be too
high for Irving's indefatigable scholarly
industry. He has sought and found scores of new
sources, including many private diaries. Mr
Irving's craftsmanship as a writer has improved
immensely, and I have enjoyed reading his long
work from beginning to end." - Professor Hugh
Trevor-Roper "THIS ground is
traversed with a sense of immediacy and grasp of
detail lacking in many of the recent Führer
biographies . . . Mr Irving's mastery of the
German sources is superb." - Professor Donald
Cameron Watt "DAVID Irving has
ransacked the world's archives; he has
discovered eye-witness accounts; he has
unearthed diaries and correspondence which were
thought to have been destroyed. . . a narrative
which is, for all its inevitable complexities,
remarkably comprehensible and, surprisingly
readable." - Professor J.E.
Molpurgo, The Yorkshire Post "DAVID Irving knows
more than anyone alive about the German side of
the Second World War. He discovers archives
unknown to official historians ... His greatest
achievement is Hitler's War ... indispensable to
anyone seeking to understand the war in the
round." - Professor Sir John
Keegan, The Daily
Telegraph 
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