Historical timeline
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<Day 6. Wednesday, 19th January 2000 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Mr Rampton, I wonder if I could ask you for a bit of help on really a logistical problem? Some of the source material that the experts rely on is fairly inaccessible.
Read the recordWe suspect that Miss Menasse has been nobbled. Her first article was well written and favourable. This one lies. See the transcript of Mr Irving's remarks as recorded by the court reporter, in the...
Read the recordHe told the High Court where he is representing himself in a libel action against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt , the American author and academic, that what he had said in the past about the...
Read the record<Day 7 Thursday, 20th January 2000. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, Mr Irving? MR IRVING: This morning we are going to be dealing, as I apprehend, may it please the court, with the Schlegelberger document which I brought, as I…
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Read the recordMr Irving is suing Deborah Lipstadt an American academic, and Penguin Books for claiming in her book Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory that he is a "Hitler partisan" who...
Read the recordHis daughter, now living in Brisbane, is an Australian citizen and, he tells a group of journalists with evident glee, she is a civil servant. But if Irving derives a quirky satisfaction from his...
Read the recordThere is sufficient evidence that Mr Irving is a Holocaust denier par-excellence." He believed the question could give Holocaust denial legitimacy. Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council National...
Read the recordRobin Cook , the Foreign Secretary, will tell a 40-nation Holocaust conference in Sweden that Britain is to fall in line with other continental countries in holding a day of remembrance. January 27,...
Read the recordSuing in plaintiff-friendly British libel court, Irving intends to prove that American author Deborah Lipstadt defamed him by calling him a Holocaust denier. In the course of preparing for trial,...
Read the recordelpais.es/p/d/20000123/opinion/vllosa.htm Los purificadores por Mario Vargas-Llosa HACE veinte o treinta años si había un hecho histórico que el mundo entero reconocía a rajatabla era el Holocausto,...
Read the recordel-mundo.es/2000/01/23/europa/23N0038.html Madrid, Sunday, January 23, 2000 pag.29 artículo de Bernard Henry-Levy ...En el proceso que ha iniciado el negacionista inglés David Irving contra la...
Read the recordThen there are moments when they wield verbal stilettos, while maintaining an exterior show of politesse. " Adolf Hitler never used derogatory terms like 'the Chosen People.' " "No, he called the...
Read the recordHe accepted that, according to a report by a forensic laboratory in Krakow in December 1945, residual traces of hydrogen cyanide were found by scientists. Subjects for analysis included a 55lb bag of...
Read the recordEiner Zeugeneinvernahme kann sich keiner verweigern, auch der hoch angesehene emeritierte Professor nicht, der Generationen von Studenten an der London School of Economics in internationaler...
Read the recordTranscript not to be reproduced without the written permission of Harry Counsell & Company PROCEEDINGS – DAY EIGHT
Read the recordStaff Correspondent A controversial historical writer who denies as a "big lie" that Jews were slaughtered in gas chambers at Auschwitz admitted in court Monday that the study upon which he...
Read the recordMr Rampton accused Mr Irving of saying "publicly that which you know to be untrue about the validity of the Leuchter report". During a visit to Florida in 1995 he was "categorical" in his dependence...
Read the record<Day 9 Tuesday, 25th January 2000. MR JUSTICE GRAY: Mr Irving, I have your clip which I obviously have not had time to read. Before we get into that, shall we, as proposed, just look ahead and consider what is going to be happening?
Read the recordDavid Irving Legal Actions The "expert witness" Robert Jan Van Pelt Lipstadt libel action (index) witness statements (index) Browning, Christopher Evans, Richard Longerich, Peter Van Pelt, Robe...
Read the recordHe is seeking damages over a claim that he is a Holocaust-denier who has twisted history, which he says has ruined his reputation as an historian. Professor Van Pelt told the court: "It will be clear...
Read the recordHe said that a number of "revisionist" researchers had entered the ruins of Crematorium Two at Auschwitz, in which Holocaust historians say 500,000 died, and photographed the collapsed underside of...
Read the recordAccused by the defendants of being "a liar and a falsifier of history", he depends on a 1988 report by a man called Fred Leuchter, who had taken samples from ruins at Auschwitz and concluded that...
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