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American diplomat and Holocaust historian (born 1947)
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...
The assembled analyses identify several well-known individuals currently or recently active in Holocaust denial, with appearing most often across sources. The available documents emphasize Irving and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The record shows vigorous and repeated comparisons between Trump-era immigration policies and Nazi-era practices—especially from commentators, advocacy outlets and some scholars who point to shared fe...
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 (...
Historians treat the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust as a distinct, rigorously documented genocide while also documenting millions of other victims — Roma, disabled people, Poles, Soviet P...
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...
Historians and scholars uniformly reject Holocaust denial claims and respond by *documenting, debunking, and contextualizing* attempts to erase or distort the historical record. Recent public controve...