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misrepresentations  13.140 Historians are human: they make
mistakes, misread and misconstrue documents and overlook
material evidence. I have found that, in numerous respects,
Irving has misstated historical evidence; adopted positions
which run counter to the weight of the evidence; given credence
to unreliable evidence and disregarded or dismissed credible
evidence. It appears to me that an analysis of those instances
may shed light on the question whether Irving's
misrepresentation of the historical evidence was deliberate.
13.141 I have found that most of the Defendants'
historiographical criticisms of Irving set out in section V of
this judgement are justified. In the vast majority of those
instances the effect of what Irving has written has been to
portray Hitler in a favourable light and to divert blame from
him onto others. I have held that this is unjustified by the
evidence. E