Irving v Lipstadt Trial

Day 29: Irving v Lipstadt Trial Transcript

(10.30 a.m.) MR JUSTICE GRAY:  Mr Rampton and Mr Irving, before we start today, I wonder if I can hand to you now a list of issues? MR IRVING:  Yes.

Day 30: Irving v Lipstadt Trial Transcript

Day 31: Irving v Lipstadt Trial Transcript

< (10.30 a.m.) MR JUSTICE GRAY:  Mr Irving? MR IRVING:  My Lord, I have provided your Lordship a copy of the fresh off the presses closing speech which I would propose to…

Day 32: Irving v Lipstadt Trial Transcript

Expert Report: Professor Christopher Browning

Browning: Evidence for the Implementation of the Final Solution 1. Qualifications to give historical evidence I am a Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where

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…

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Irving the historian

Professor Evans examines Irving's writings on Hitler, documenting patterns of admiration and the selective use of evidence.

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Irving and Holocaust denial

Professor Evans' expert analysis of Irving's relationship to Holocaust denial — a systematic examination of his public statements.

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Irving’s writings on Hitler: Admiration

Professor Evans examines Irving's historical method regarding his writings on Adolf Hitler.

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Irving’s writings on Hitler: Exculpation

4.2 Exculpation 4.2.1Irving has always been particularly sensitive to the charge that Hitler was antisemitic and used his power to bring about anti-Jewish laws and finally to order the extermination

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — Irving’s use of evidence

5. Irving's use of evidence 5.1 Introduction 5.5.1  In her book Denying the Holocaust, it will be remembered, Lipstadt makes a series of allegations about Irving's work, both indirectly, by describi

Expert Report: Professor Richard Evans — General Conclusion

1.  This examination of Irving's work has demonstrated that there is abundant evidence of his beliefs and activities since 1988 as a Holocaust denier; that is to say, he has actively…

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

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

Expert Report: Dr Peter Longerich

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

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…