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Decade: 1990s 9 2000s 1 2020s 19
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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Introduction

1.1.1  This Report is prepared pursuant to the Order of Master Trench dated 15 December 1998 directing that each party may adduce expert evidence from historians and political scientists to address…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (j) Ribbentrop’s testimony at Nuremberg and his evidence from his cell in Nuremberg.

(j) Ribbentrop's testimony at Nuremberg and his evidence from his cell in Nuremberg. 1.  In Hitler's War, Irving used an extract from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's Nuremberg prison notes

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Historical Document Essential Oct 1, 1943

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (i) The Deportation and Murder of the Roman Jews in October 1943.

(i) The Deportation and Murder of the Roman Jews in October 1943. 1.  In his reply to the defence, Irving cites the following incident as part of his argument that Hitler…

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Historical Document Essential Apr 1, 1943

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (h) The Antonescu/Horthy Meetings with Hitler in April 1943

(h) The Antonescu/Horthy Meetings with Hitler in April 1943 1.  The next link in the chain is provided by documentation on Germany's relations with Hungary in 1943. During the Second World…

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Historical Document Essential Sep 22, 1942

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (g) The Himmler minute of 22 September 1942

(g) The Himmler minute of 22 September 1942 1.  A further link in Irving's chain of documents is provided by a minute written by Himmler on 22 September 1942. The background…

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Historical Document Essential Mar 27, 1942

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (f) The Goebbels diary entry of 27 March 1942

(f) The Goebbels diary entry of 27 March 1942 1.  On 1 September 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and overran and defeated it within weeks. The most western parts of Poland…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (e) The Schlegelberger note

(e) The Schlegelberger note 1.  Irving consistently argues that far from driving on Nazi Germany's antisemitic policies, Hitler frequently personally intervened to stop them or water them down. One k

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Historical Document Essential Jan 1, 1941

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (d) The expulsion of Jews from Berlin, 1941

(d) The expulsion of Jews from Berlin, 1941 1.  With the German invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, Nazi policy against the…

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Historical Document Essential Nov 1, 1938

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (c) ‘Reichskristallnacht’ November 1938.

(c) 'Reichskristallnacht' November 1938. 1.  The second link in Irving's 'chain' of proof that Hitler defended the Jews is Hitler's actions during the events of 9-10 November 1938, part-trivialized,

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Historical Document Essential Jan 1, 1924

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Case Study: (b) Evidence at Hitler’s trial in 1924

(b) Evidence at Hitler's trial in 1924 1.  The first link in Irving's self-proclaimed chain of key documents which demonstrate that Hitler was the best friend the Jews ever had in…

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — CONCLUSION

In the case of David John Cawdell Irving, plaintiff, and Penguin Books Limited and Deborah E. Lipstadt, defendants, there are a number of points of contention that touched my own…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — PART FIVE CONCERNING IRVING

PART FIVE CONCERNING IRVING X Auschwitz and David Irving (1977 – 1988-1992) He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. He wears…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — PART FOUR CONCERNING DENIAL

PART FOUR CONCERNING DENIAL VII Auschwitz and Holocaust Denial Frankfurter: “Dr. Münch, what would you say to those who say today that all of this did not happen, that Auschwitz…

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — PART THREE CONCERNING DOCUMENTS

Things of several kinds may admit and require several sorts of proofs, all which may be good in their kind. The Philosopher has long ago told us [Aristotle, Eth. Lib.…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — PART TWO CONCERNING EVIDENCE

PART TWO CONCERNING EVIDENCE III Intimations, 1941 – 1945 We do not exactly know how things have happened, and the historian’s embarrassment increases with the abundance of documents at his…

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Historical Document Essential Feb 7, 2026

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — PART ONE CONCERNING HISTORY

PART ONE CONCERNING HISTORY I Auschwitz.31 The concentrationary universe shrivels away within itself. It still lives on in the world like a dead planet laden with corpses. Normal men do…

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Professor Robert Jan van Pelt — INTRODUCTION

(In color): We are moving at a walking pace across a verdant landscape; a blue sky filled with fluffy clouds. [Narrator:] “A peaceful landscape …” Barbed wire nailed to high…

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Dr Peter Longerich

Longerich: The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Dr Peter Longerich — Hitler’s Role in the Persecution of the Jews

Longerich: Hitler's Role in the Persuection of the Jews by the Nazi Regime

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Historical Document Essential Jun 15, 1999

Expert Report: Professor Hajo Funke

Funke: David Irving, Holocaust Denial, and his Connections to Right Wing Extremists and Neo-National Socialism (Neo-Nazism) in Germany

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