David Irving

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“Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust.” That is a huge statement that can cause a lot of commotion. Yet, how can someone come to say that statement after all the proof that has been provided about the Holocaust. Thousands of survivors provide their stories about their experience in the ghettos and concentration camps, yet even after this David comes out and says the Jews are being paid. He told a Canadian audience in 1990 that people claimed to be survivors because “there's money involved and they can get a good compensation cash payment out of it” (archive) After all his allegations about the Holocaust, he goes and sues an author Deborah Lipstadt because he wrote false things about him in her book about his position of the Holocaust and Hitler during WWII. In the end he lost the case and had to pay a fee to England. David Irving publicly denied the Holocaust and didn’t own up to it. By denying the Holocaust, he diminishes all the lives involved. In the end, he deserved to lose the case.Background
There are many Holocaust deniers in the world. David Irving is one of the more famous ones. Irving wrote many books, one of his most well know is Called Hitler’s War. It is written in the point of view of Hitler during WWII (archive). Irving acknowledged that as a young politician Hitler realized that anti-Semitism was “a powerful vote-catching force” (archive). He thought that the planning, implementation and responsibility for the systematic murder of the Jews rested with those under Hitler’s subordinate “Nazi gangsters,” most importantly Heinrich Himmler (archive). He stated that he thinks Hitler knew nothing about the death camps in Germany. With this conclusion he came up with a theory called the Holocaust Legend. In a 19...

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