David Irving Quotes

March 24, 1938

David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 25 books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).

A man for whom Hitler is something of a hero and almost everything of an innocent, and for whom Auschwitz is a Jewish deception.

The Times on David Irving, quoted in Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. 1993, (p. 180).

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What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.

David Irving
— Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)

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The interesting questions are what did Hitler know, did Himmler conceal it, did he keep it from Hitler, where was the killing done, was it Auschwitz, was it the Reinhard camps and that's what people are frightened to research, because they go to prison for it.

David Irving
— Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)

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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

David Irving
— The 'False News' Trial of Ernst Zündel — 1988: David Irving.

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March 24, 1938

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