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(d) Irving's biography of...  (e) Conclusion  1. Irving's claim
that the 1991 edition of Hitler's War and the 1989 biography of
Göring indicate that he is not a Holocaust denier is not
credible when the Index references he cites in support of this
contention are actually consulted. Both books give an account of
Nazi policies and actions towards the Jews during the Second
World War that is perfectly compatible with the central tenets
of Holocaust denial as this is normally understood by
historians. In his reply to Lipstadt's defence, Irving refers to
two further books authored by himself Von Guernica bis Vietnam
and The Trail of the Fox, as evidence that he is not a Holocaust
denier.Von Guernica bis Vietnam, however, was published in 1982,
and is no evidence of Irving's recent views, which, as we have
seen, differ markedly on these issues from the views which he
expressed in the 1977 edition of Hitler's War and which (there
is every reason to bel