{"id":144271,"date":"2016-12-18T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=144271"},"modified":"2016-12-22T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T05:56:25","slug":"the-demonization-of-david-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=144271","title":{"rendered":"The Demonization of David Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lasha Darkmoon — Darkmoon.me Dec 18, 2016
\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Doubting the mainstream Holocaust narrative can be a dangerous business, as David Irving and others have discovered to their cost.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"irving\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018UNREPENTANT! . . . AND STILL \u00a0SPOUTING \u00a0POISON!\u2019<\/strong>
\n(Daily Mail)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Here is a photo of David Irving,<\/strong> \u00a0age 78, \u201cjailed, discredited and bankrupted\u201d, according to a recent article in the Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0\u201cfor disgracefully dismissing the Auschwitz gas chambers as a \u2018fairytale.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The article is by a hack known as David Jones who managed to infiltrate one of Irving\u2019s regular meetings so as to have an opportunity of spying on him and his group in order to report back to the Daily Mail<\/em> with an appropriately scurrilous article. His aim? To demonize Irving and win plaudits from the politically correct readers of the Daily Mail<\/em>, many of them Jews whose new religion happens to be Holocaustianity<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
Jones begins with considerable aplomb:<\/h5>\n
At weekends, the Premier Inn in Gateshead throngs with football fans and young clubbers up for a wild night out in nearby Newcastle. Visitors to this cheap and cheery hotel on a trading estate seldom arrive by Rolls-Royce. Last Saturday evening, however, a vintage Silver Shadow glided onto the forecourt.<\/h5>\n
Sitting ramrod-straight at the wheel was an elderly and distinguished looking man, with silver hair and ruddy jowls. He might have been a retired brigadier. But it was none other than the infamous Holocaust-denying historian, David Irving.<\/h5>\n
In the passenger seat was the latest of Irving\u2019s Girl Fridays \u2014 an attractive Polish woman, 50 years his junior, named Martyna Jurska. Her immediate task was to unload a stash of his books (including his laudatory 985-page biography of Hitler) from the boot of the Rolls and carry them into the hotel, in the hope he might hawk copies to an audience he was due to address, for upwards of \u00a330 a time.<\/h5>\n
For at the age of 78, Irving \u2014 who has been jailed, discredited and bankrupted for disgracefully dismissing the Auschwitz gas chambers as a \u2018fairytale\u2019, and claiming Hitler was oblivious to the planned extermination of six million Jews (the true figure was far fewer, he maintains) \u2014 is beating his odious drum yet again<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/h5>\n
One cannot help wondering why it is \u201cdisgraceful\u201d to ask a few pertinent questions about Auschwitz. Most people would be sympathetic toward the skeptical position adopted by Irving if allowed access to the basic facts:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
(1) The fact that not a single authentic gas chamber has been discovered anywhere, including and especially at Auschwitz, the showcase Holocaust site.\u00a0Here is Robert Faurisson\u2019s famous challenge to the mainstream Holocaust historians:\u00a0\u201cShow me a photo, an architect\u2019s plan or even a drawing of a gas chamber!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0No one to date has been able to do this. Even the famous gas chamber shown to tourists at Auschwitz is now officially admitted to be a fake, but visitors to Auschwitz are still not told this. The Auschwitz gas chamber was built by the Russians after WWII as an imagined facsimile (or \u00a0\u201cmock-up\u201d) and was passed off as an authentic gas chamber for several decades. The general public, in short, were systematically duped.<\/h5>\n
(2) The\u00a0Leuchter Report<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(1988), based on expert chemical analysis of alleged gas chambers, \u00a0has concluded categorically that there is \u201cno evidence<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that any of the facilities normally alleged to be execution gas chambers were ever used as such, and, further, that because of the design and fabrication of these facilities, they could not have been utilized for execution gas chambers.\u201d \u00a0David Irving is said to have been influenced by the Leuchter Report. Predictable attempts have been made to debunk the Report, but these attempts have failed to convince everyone.<\/h5>\n
(3) The official figures for Jews gassed at Auschwitz have been revised downward over the years from over 4 million to as little as 356,000. The general public however, kept in ignorance of these \u201cdrastic reductions<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d, are still being bullied into believing that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust \u2014 a mathematically impossible figure if official reductions are factored into the account.<\/h5>\n
\u201cUtterly unrepentant,\u201d Jones continues, \u201cIrving has just embarked on a month-long, nationwide speaking tour. It is being conducted in a cloak of secrecy and accessible only to a select and carefully vetted audience, but last Saturday night I managed to infiltrate his first engagement. It was an eye-opening and disturbing experience.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Jones explains that Irving had \u201cbrazenly\u201d timed his tour to coincide with the release of the new Hollywood movie Denial<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. <\/em>This is about Irving\u2019s disastrous libel action against Jewish academic Barbara Lipstadt who had branded Irving a \u201cHolocaust denier.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cThere was a time when Irving commanded considerable respect in his field,\u201d Jones informs us, \u201cand made a fortune from his books \u2014 as he reminded us when his talk began.<\/h5>\n
His long demise began after he published his biography of Hitler in 1977.<\/h5>\n
It is almost 1,000 pages long, yet references Auschwitz just four times \u2014\u00a0and barely alludes to the Holocaust<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. He claimed to have uncovered documented proof that Hitler merely wished to banish the Jews from Europe, not wipe them out. This caused such outrage that, in 1992, he claims, his publishers Macmillan secretly ordered stocks of the book to be burnt.\u201d<\/h5>\n
This is an ill-informed comment at the best. It will appeal only to historical ignoramuses. Irving\u2019s methodology was a welcome departure from that of the court historians who kept quoting each other and making extensive use of secondary sources.<\/h5>\n
Having mastered German, Irving, we are told by one of his critics elsewhere, \u201cwas remarkably good at getting the wives and former associates of dead Nazis to talk to him and hand over important documents, and Irving developed a style of historical research that involved laboriously getting to know the handwriting of former Nazis, reading their journals, diaries and memos and gradually piecing together an independent view of history. Irving asserts that he found\u00a0no evidence of the Holocaust anywhere in these documents<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/h5>\n
Irving himself has noted, \u201cIf you read the memoirs of Churchill or Eisenhower or de Gaulle, they don\u2019t mention it [the Holocaust] at all.\u00a0It never happened<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0as far as they were concerned.\u201d<\/h5>\n
How odd that the most important event in World History, the Jewish Holocaust, was passed over in complete silence by so many eminent contemporary historians.<\/h5>\n
Here is Professor Richard Lynn, an international expert on IQ, giving his written testimony in 2005:<\/h5>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve checked out Churchill\u2019s\u00a0Second World War<\/em>\u00a0and the statement is quite correct \u2014 not a single mention of Nazi \u201cgas chambers,\u201d a \u201cgenocide\u201d of the Jews, or of \u201csix million\u201d Jewish victims of the war. This is astonishing. How can it be explained?<\/h5>\n
Eisenhower\u2019s\u00a0Crusade in Europe<\/em>\u00a0is a book of 559 pages; the six volumes of Churchill\u2019s\u00a0Second World War<\/em>\u00a0total 4,448 pages; and de Gaulle\u2019s three-volume M\u00e9moires de guerre<\/em>\u00a0is 2,054 pages. In this mass of writing, which altogether totals 7,061 pages (not including the introductory parts), published from 1948 to 1959, one will find no mention either of Nazi \u201cgas chambers,\u201d a \u201cgenocide\u201d of the Jews, or of \u201csix million\u201d Jewish victims of the war.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Richard Lynn
\nProfessor Emeritus,
\nUniversity of Ulster<\/h5>\n
(See\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>)<\/h5>\n
When Lipstadt began denouncing Irving for his \u201ctwisted views\u201d, Jones tells us, Irving travelled to Atlanta to attend one of her lectures. He surprised her by standing up at the back of the hall and announcing \u201cI am David Irving.\u201d Lipstadt had just had the temerity to tell her gullible students that she possessed a blueprint of the gas chambers showing holes in the roof for fumes to pass through. Irving had pulled out a thousand dollars and challenged Lipstadt to show her students the blueprint. \u201cI\u2019ll give this to you straight away if you can show this blueprint to them,\u201d he said, waving the thousand dollars.<\/h5>\n
Lipstadt was mortified. She was unable to produce the non-existent blueprint. Nor has she ever been able to do that, given that no such blueprint existed. And yet she had been quite prepared to lie to her students about this.<\/h5>\n
\u201cLipstadt did not meet this very public challenge,\u201d Jones admits somewhat sheepishly. \u201cUltimately, she had her revenge in the High Court.\u201d<\/h5>\n
She had her revenge in court?<\/em> Yes, and what a revenge! Jones fails to mention that Lipstadt, on the advice of her solicitors, had refused to be cross-examined by Irving in court. She had read none of the original documents in German for the simple reason that her knowledge of German was so minimal as to be virtually non-existent. If she had faced Irving in court, he would have torn her reputation to shreds in two minutes.<\/h5>\n
\u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/h5>\n
Jones himself is not above lying<\/strong>. He says: \u201cAfter a sensational trial in 2000, which attracted global attention \u2014 as it would effectively decide whether the Holocaust had happened<\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u2014 the judge ruled against Irving, damning him as anti-Semitic and racist.\u201d<\/h5>\n
This is false.\u00a0It was never up to the judge to decide whether the Holocaust had happened or not. All the judge was in a position to do was to tell the public that he agreed with Lipstadt that Irving was a Holocaust denier. Consequently, Irving\u2019s libel action against Lipstadt for calling him a \u201cHolocaust denier\u201d had failed. Irving was ordered to pay \u00a32 million in costs, and his home and assets were seized.<\/h5>\n
Jones continues:<\/h5>\n
Gaining entry to Irving\u2019s opening night in Gateshead was not easy, for he ignored requests for a media pass, and after being targeted by anti-fascists he is paranoid about security.<\/h5>\n
Just three other people had shown up. One was an avuncular retiree, another a shy 18-year-old. The most vociferous was a suit-and-tie wearing Welsh casino worker with a sharp crew-cut, who said he had a history degree. As the evening wore on, and this disquieting trio punctuated their questions with bigoted asides, it became depressingly clear what their world view was.<\/h5>\n
Since there were so few of us, Irving\u2019s talk took the form of a college seminar around a long table. Fixing us with a rheumy stare, he began by reminiscing fondly about his father. It seemed an aimless preamble, but its purpose soon became clear.<\/h5>\n
\u2018This film about Deborah Lipstadt says my father abandoned his family, but he didn\u2019t at all,\u2019 he sniffed. \u2018He was away fighting the war as a commander in the Navy, so he wasn\u2019t at home very much.\u2019<\/h5>\n
He then lambasted the producers of the film, saying the story had been presented purely from the point of view of Professor Lipstadt, his nemesis: \u2018It\u2019ll be full of lies.\u2019<\/h5>\n
The coy teenager was suddenly stirred. \u2018I like the way they\u2019ve chosen someone very unappealing [Timothy Spall] to play you, and someone very appealing [Rachel Weisz] to play your opponent.\u2019<\/h5>\n
\"Rachel<\/a>

Rachel Weisz (left) plays Deborah Lipstadt in the film Denial. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Note here the not-too-subtle attempt to \u201cput a spin\u201d on history by (a) transforming the dowdy and unappealing Lipstadt into the classy stunner Rachel Weisz, and (b) by getting a particularly unattractive actor, the\u00a0rat-faced Timothy Spall<\/a><\/span>, to take on the role of the\u00a0dashing and debonnaire David Irving<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Jones eventually asked Irving to\u00a0clarify his position on the Holocaust.<\/h5>\n
He shot me a scolding glance. \u201cAuschwitz is Disneyland,\u201d Irving said, and referred to huge posters saying \u201cWelcome to the Auschwitz Experience\u201d. So he disputed six million Jews were killed? \u201cIf you do research, you\u2019ll find six million.\u201d But then, drawing on his vast mental database, he selected \u201cfacts\u201d to support his insistence the camps claimed far fewer lives than we have been led to believe.<\/h5>\n
Jones argues the toss with Irving for a bit, clearly out of his depth, while managing somehow to convey the impression that Irving was a pretty nasty piece of work as well as a crackpot, whereas he, Jones, staff writer for the Daily Mail<\/em>, had done his homework conscientiously over the last three days and now had all the facts about the Holocaust at his fingertips.<\/h5>\n
I asked why, if what he was saying was true, he had lost his landmark libel action. Another severe glance. \u201cAs my father said, \u2018British justice is the best that money can buy\u2019,\u201dhe sneered, recalling how he defended himself against high-powered lawyers funded by what he said were \u2018Jewish film moguls\u2019.<\/h5>\n
The case left him penniless, he says. Yet today Irving runs a Rolls-Royce and stays at an imposing 17th-century mansion with shooting, deerstalking and fishing rights, in the Scottish Highlands.<\/h5>\n
Jones forgets to mention that the Rolls-Royce is 40 years old and is retained as an investment; unlike most cars, it appreciates in value as long as it is kept in good condition.<\/h5>\n
Before drawing a disturbing evening in Gateshead to a close, Irving\u2019s three fans paid for copies of his books and asked for selfies. Irving was only too pleased to oblige. Then he checked his watch and clapped his hands abruptly. \u201cI think that\u2019s enough,\u201d he snapped. \u201cWe have a long tour ahead of us.\u201d<\/h5>\n
On cue, Martyna [his young assistant] dutifully returned the unsold books to the Rolls.<\/h5>\n
There were, indeed, many miles to travel, and Irving will doubtless continue to pervert history to anyone who will listen, disgracefully denying the truth to the end<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
Note that glib phrase, \u201cdisgracefully denying the truth to the end.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
A \u201ctruth\u201d that no one is allowed to debate on television, or discuss freely in public, without being severely punished for daring to hold a contrary view.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Countries with Laws against Holocaust denial<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong>Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland.<\/h5>\n
\u2014 \u00a0\u00a7 \u00a0\u2014<\/h5>\n
In 1980<\/strong>, during a radio interview in France, the great French revisionist Robert Faurisson was asked to summarize his lifetime\u2019s research on the Holocaust in a single sentence. He did so in 60 memorable French words which have been translated\u00a0as follows<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/h5>\n
\u201cThe alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people \u2014 but not their leaders \u2014 and the entire Palestinian people.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
That sentence, to this day, remains unchanged.<\/h5>\n
For these provocative words, Faurisson was denounced as a criminal in a French court of law and treated like a leper \u2014 in pretty much the same way as David Irving is today. At least Irving, to the best of my knowledge, has never had his\u00a0face beaten to pulp by Jewish thugs.\u00a0(See below).<\/h5>\n
Faurisson has been physically attacked like this\u00a0at least ten times<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/h5>\n

\"faurisson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is Irving in his own words: \u201cI know what I could do to be liked by the media and newspapers \u2013 completely reverse my opinion. But I don\u2019t do it. I\u2019m not the kind of guy who rolls over. I\u2019m English. I fight back. If the Jews had not started this campaign to destroy David Irving I wouldn\u2019t have defended myself. I\u2019ve defended myself like any other decent Englishman. And\u00a0I know where the bodies are buried<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Let a Jewish woman have the last word. She had actually been at Auschwitz. And she had no complaints about her treatment by the Germans.<\/h5>\n
\u201cBelieve me, I came into Auschwitz in a much worse condition than I actually left it.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
\u2014\u00a0Kitty Hart-Moxon<\/a><\/span>, Jewish Holocaust Survivor.<\/strong>
\nJune 1998 testimony, USC Shoah Foundation, Visual History Archive.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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