⚠️ Historical Documentation Notice
This document is part of a historical archive and is presented for scholarly research and educational purposes.
David Irving has delivered speeches and lectures on historical topics across the world since the early 1980s, often in the face of significant opposition from those who would restrict free historical inquiry. Below is an index of major addresses, many of which were transcribed from recordings.
The Search for Truth in History (1993)
After the Australian Labour Government, under pressure, refused permission for David Irving to make a third tour of the country in 1993, he videotaped a speech at a studio in South Africa and shipped it to Australia. Attempts by his opponents to ban the video included getting The Mossad to plant hidden microphone-bugs in the room of the Sydney video censorship authority. The complete text of this important speech, The Search for Truth in History, is preserved in the archive.
Complete Index of Speeches (1983–2007)
1983
- September 3, 1983 — Los Angeles, California — “The Travails of the Transatlantic Writer.”
First speech in the USA for fifteen years, addressed to a meeting of international revisionists at Anaheim, organised by the Institute of Historical Review.
1987
- November 12, 1987 — Johannesburg, South Africa
1988
- April 1988 — Toronto, Canada — At the time of the Zündel Trial.
1990
- 1990
— London, Clarendon Club
— “We Have Lost Our Sense of Destiny.” - September 3, 1990 — Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany — With resulting police prosecution documents.
1991
- November 6, 1991 — Buchenbronn, Germany — Fragments, in German, to a German audience.
- November 9, 1991 — Halle, central Germany — Fragments, in German.
style=”color: #8b0000;”>1992
- May 5, 1992 — Munich — Secret tape transcript of Mr Irving’s closing address to Munich court (Schlusswort vor dem Münchner Landgericht, in German).
- September 19, 1992 — London, Clarendon Club
- October 11, 1992 — Los Angeles, California — “Eichmann and Goebbels Papers.”
- October 16, 1992 — Portland, Oregon
- October 28, 1992
— Victoria, British Columbia
— On Freedom of Speech. At the end of this speech Mr Irving was arrested by Victoria city police. - November 1, 1992 — Toronto, Canada — On Freedom of Speech. Prior to leaving Canada. Refused entry to the United States that night, he was returned to Canada and rearrested.
- November 8, 1992 — Toronto, Canada — On Freedom of Speech.
Released on bail during deportation hearings, he again addressed a large audience in Toronto.
1993
- February 1993 — Videotaped in South Africa — “The Search for Truth in History.”
Videotaped speech to Australians after the Labour Government refused permission for a third tour.
1994
- October 10, 1994 — Portland, Oregon
- 1994–1996 — University of California at Berkeley — Attempts to speak at UCB, thwarted by violent demonstrations staged by opponents of free speech.
1998
- April 13, 1998 — Washington State
University, Pullman
— Partial transcript preserved.
2002
- May 19, 2002 — Seattle, Washington — Reported by Mark Moran.
2003
- February 27, 2003 — Arlington, Virginia — Talk in snow-choked Arlington.
- October 23, 2003 — Budapest, Hungary — Speech to the huge Budapest rally commemorating the 1956
uprising.
2007
- March 15, 2007 — Budapest, Hungary — Speech to Hungary’s National Day rally. Also available in Hungarian translation (PDF).
Excerpt: “The Travails of the Transatlantic Writer” (Los Angeles, 1983)
“This is my first public speaking engagement in America except, I think, for an after-luncheon speech in Kansas to a Kansas City ladies guild of some kind. This, I think, is because of language problems. I am a master of many languages but the American tongue is one that eludes me.
“In my book Hitler’s War, there’s one dramatic episode after the attack on Hitler’s life where he sits on the edge of his bed, after the bomb attempt on his life, and feels his pulse. I describe this about Adolf Hitler sitting on the edge of his bed, in his shirt sleeves and braces — and the editor, Stan Hockman, a very distinguished American Jewish editor who said he had nightmares editing my book afterwards, cut out ‘braces’ and made it ‘suspenders.’
But in England suspenders are what women hold up their stockings with…”
— David Irving, Los Angeles, September 4, 1983
Source: Original FPP website speeches archive. Transcripts originally published by the Institute of Historical Review and Focal Point Publications.