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British author and Holocaust denier (born 1938)
Scholars have comprehensively rebutted claims that Nazi gas chambers did not exist by combining forensic science, documentary evidence, eyewitness and perpetrator testimony, and rigorous archival and ...
Holocaust denial rests on a set of recurring false claims—claims that the scale, methods, or even existence of the Nazi genocide are fabricated or exaggerated—and these claims trace to a small network...
David Irving is a British author once known for books about World War II who by the 1980s–2000s became internationally identified as a leading Holocaust denier; courts and historians have concluded he...
Holocaust deniers repeatedly assert that Nazi “gas chambers” either did not exist or were not used to kill people — arguments advanced via pseudo‑scientific reports (notably the Leuchter Report) and p...
Holocaust deniers deploy a small set of recurring claims: that the scale and mechanics of the Holocaust were exaggerated, that documentary and testimonial evidence is unreliable or fabricated, and tha...
Holocaust deniers advance a small, repeatable set of claims: that the scale of Jewish deaths (commonly ~6 million) is exaggerated, that Nazi Germany had no plan to exterminate Jews, and that gas chamb...
Holocaust deniers advance a clustered set of claims about Auschwitz and its gas chambers: that homicidal gassings did not occur there, that physical and chemical evidence contradicts extermination use...
David Irving is best known for books such as Hitler's War and numerous World War II–related titles that brought him public attention and later legal and scholarly condemnation for systematic distortio...
Historians Raul Hilberg and Deborah Lipstadt have confronted gas-chamber denial claims through different but complementary approaches: Hilberg by refining his interpretation of bureaucratic processes ...
Holocaust denial is promoted today by a mix of long‑standing agitators (David Irving, Ernst Zündel), extremist networks and modern online subcultures including white supremacists and some Islamist pol...
The 2000 libel trial Irving v. Lipstadt publicly demonstrated that David Irving repeatedly distorted evidence, manipulated documents, and rewrote Hitler’s role in the Holocaust — findings spelled out ...
Peer-reviewed scholarship and authoritative institution reports repeatedly dismantle Holocaust denial by combining archival documentation, demographic analysis, forensic and testimonial evidence, and ...
Courts across multiple jurisdictions have confronted Holocaust denial claims—especially the assertion that Nazi gas chambers did not exist—by treating denial as a falsifiable historical claim and asse...
Forensic document and chemical analysis featured as a pivotal battleground in Lipstadt v Irving: Irving relied heavily on the Leuchter “forensic” report claiming no cyanide residues in Auschwitz gas c...
Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin defended a 1996 libel suit by David Irving by choosing the justification defense and assembling legal and scholarly teams to prove Irving “for his own ideological reasons ...
Courts have repeatedly rejected Holocaust denial as factually baseless and, in many jurisdictions, legally actionable: a 1981 U.S. state judge took judicial notice that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz (...
David Irving’s legal battles and public appearances attracted a mix of mainstream historians and institutions condemning him, legal teams and sympathetic publishers defending or promoting him, and fri...
Public figures can be defamed by being labeled a “Nazi” or “fascist” in some legal systems and contexts, but outcomes depend on jurisdictional defamation standards, the factual basis for the label, an...