David Irving

David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) describes himself as a self-taught historian who, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, was a leading British author on World War II with works such as Hitler?s War and The Destruction of Dresden. Irving is also one of the most accomplished and successful proponents of Holocaust denial. In the mid-1980s, he started openly associating with neo-Nazi and extremist groups, and his reputation began to wane. In the late 1990s, he sued the prominent Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt for having listed him as a Holocaust denier in her book Denying the Holocaust. After a much publicized trial, Irving lost the case and was found to be a Holocaust denier by the court.

References

• Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt. ISBN 0452272742
• Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial by Richard J. Evans, 2001. The author was a major expert witness at the trial, and this book presents both his view of the trial, and much of his expert witness report, including his research on the Dresden death count. ISBN 0465021530
• The Holocaust on Trial by D. D. Guttenplan. ISBN 0393322920.
• David Irving?s Hitler : a faulty history dissected, two essays by Eberhard Jäckel; translation and comments by H. David Kirk ; with a forward by Robert Fulford, Port Angeles, Wash. : Ben-Simon Publications, 1993 ISBN 0914539086.
• The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan Van Pelt. Van Pelt was another expert witness at the trial, focussing on Auschwitz. ISBN 0253340160
• Denying History: Who Says Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It by Michael Shermer. ISBN 0520234693
• The Hitler of History by John Lukacs. ISBN 0679446494
• History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving by Deborah E. Lipstadt, 2005. ISBN 0060593768
• "Hitler and the Genesis of the ?Final Solution?: An Assessment of David Irving?s Theses" pages 73-125 from Yad Vashem Studies by Martin Broszat, Volume 13, 1979.
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