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1.1 Jewish responsibility for anti-Semitism/ pogroms/ Holocaust

INTERVIEWER: What would you say the reason is?
PRESENTER: Thereby excusing the Germans, the Nazi's.
PRESENTER: But isn't that an ugly, racist sentiment?
INTERVIEWER: Well I'll go back to my previous question.
INTERVIEWER: Absolutely.

1.2 Holocaust "myth" as Jewish extortion

[1.2/A]'I hate that word [Holocaust]. Its a word I don't like using. People say to me, "Mr. Irving do you believe in the Holocaust? Do you deny the Holocaust?" I say that I mistrust words with a capital letter. They look like a trademark, don't they? Like Tylenol or something. We don't trust them; no matter how much advertising they put into Tylenol. And so it is with that word "Holocaust". You get the impression that it is a neatly packaged, highly promoted operation, and you don't trust it.' [P's speech at the 11th IHR Conference, October 1992 - 'The Suppressed Eichmann and Goebbels Papers' (also published in the JHR for March/April 1993): K3, Tab. 13, p. 16]
[1.2/B]'And this [his thesis that Hitler knew nothing of the Holocaust] is why I've become something of an anathema, something of a bete noir, an enemy of the Jewish community of the world because I'm treading on hallowed ground. It's almost blasphemy. I'm taking a legend, which has been very carefully and sedulously created and cultivated over the 30 or 40 years since the end of the war ended at that time, and I'm shaking it and saying "Come on! Where's the proof. You said this all years. Where's the proof; where's the beef?" And they can't come up with it.'
[P interview with Errol Morris, 9 November 1998: K4, Tab. 9, p. 4]
So, you see, if I use the German word relativieren, relativieren [relativise], this is what we can now do, we can now say, "Put an end to your lies about the Germans being the arch-criminals of all time who have committed crimes that are the biggest crimes of this millennium, let alone this century."'[P speech at Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 1990: K3, Tab. 8, p. 21]
[1.2/E]'HOLOCAUSTOMANIA: n, obsession with burnt offerings; hence:} business acumen; greed. (Gr., 1994).'[P's Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 2: K4 Tab. 10, p. 46 (at 1)]
[1.2/F]'"One year from now the Holocaust will have been discredited. That prediction is lethal because of the vested interests involved in the Holocaust industry. As I said to the Jewish Chronicle, if a year from now the gas chamber legend collapses, what will that mean for Israel? Israel is drawing millions of dollars each year from the German taxpayer, provided by the German government as reparation for the gas chambers. It is also drawing millions from American taxpayers, who put up with it because of the way the Israelis or the Jews suffered. No one's going to like it when they find out that for 50 years they have been believing a legend based on baloney."' ['History's cache and carry', The Guardian, 7 July, 1992: K4, Tab. 10, p. 29]
INTERVIEWER: No, this wasn't my question.
[1.2/H]'I remind Fraser that he's on a BBC contract and will say nothing to jeopardize that; while I am as free as a bird, constrained only by the limits of my own courage. At the end, I say I find the Holocaust boring.
"But you write about it!"
"No I don't. I never have. The reason the others make so much of it is that they are making money out of it, billions in the last year or so, and it is the only interesting thing to have happened to them in three thousand years; they are using it as an adhesive to keep their splintering people together."
He found this tasteless: So it is; much that is true is just that.' [P's 'A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 10: K4, Tab. 10, p. 64]
We are all Holocaust survivors, everyone of us who was born in 1939 or, or from then until 1945; but we don't go dining out on that particular legend. The ones who suffered in the Holocaust are the ones who died, not the ones who survived. But the Holocaust survivors are the ones who are earning of course.' [P's talk to the Clarendon Club, 19 September 1992: K4, Tab. 5, p. 8]
[1.2/J]IRVING: OK, let's move onto the Jews of Hungary. In the files of the Office of Strategic Services is a report which I found which is about 200 pages long describing how various Jewish underground organisations turned up in occupied Europe, in liberated Europe after the end of the war and screened all the inmates in the displaced persons camps and using the immense organising skills which the Jews are endowed, they shipped all the Jews they found in these camps using the funds of the United Nations Relief and Refugee Agency across Europe, in trucks, straight to the Middle East, where they were given new names, new existence and a new life.
QUESTIONER: If you're suggesting that half a million Jews.....
IRVING: I'll not say that...
QUESTIONER: survived the war and have continued to this day to exist in an almost conspiratorial pretence.....
IRVING: I'm suggesting to you alternative explanations to the gas chamber because obviously as the gas chamber now turns out to be phoney then we have to try and explain what happened to the figures. Now one possible reason is the large number of Jews that turned up in the State of Palestine which is now the State of Israel. The Jews in Israel didn't come from nowhere. Another part of them when Auschwitz was liberated were set out on the roads and shipped westwards where they ended up in cities like Dresden. I don't have to tell you what happened in Dresden three weeks after Auschwitz was evacuated by the Germans. One million refugees on the streets of Dresden at the time when we burnt Dresden to the ground killing anything between 100,000 - 250,000 of them. Large numbers of people on the streets in Europe that winter also suffered normal deaths of exposure and starvation and epidemics. I'm offering to you alternative solutions to where the people went.' [P's press conference for the FPP publication of the Leuchter Report, 23 June 1989: K3, Tab. 4, pp. 9-10]
[1.2/L]'Many concentration camps as the Russians approached were evacuated and sent out on a long cold march through the European winter of December 1944/January 1945 to the West. The concentration camp inmates arrived in Berlin or in Leipzig or in Dresden just in time for the RAF bombers to set fire to their cities. In Dresden a million and a half people camping out in the street on the night of February, 13th 1945. Nobody knows who they were, refugees, concentration camp prisoners, citizens of Dresden itself, after the bombers retired, 40, 45 minutes later another wave came and then at noon on February, 14th the American airforce joined in. Over 130,000 people died in that particular air raid. The same kind of raids took place on Leipzig, Berlin, Cottbus, refugee centres up and down the centre of Germany. Nobody knows how many Jews died in those air raids. Nobody knows how many Jews died on the roads of hunger or starvation or just sheer cold.
Nobody knows then how many Jews survived World War II in the displaced persons camps. This is one of the most interesting aspects. It is possible to research it I suppose but to my knowledge, none of the Holocaust historians have done so. The national archives in Washington houses a report this thick of the Office of Strategic Services, the American Secret Service in which are investigated the activities of the Hagana, the Jewish Zionist underground organisation, in those very displaced-persons camps in the first month after World War II. The Hagana went from DP camp to camp, scouring them for all the Jews they could find who were still living in these camps, these wretched people, loading them onto trucks and shipping them then with the United Nations funds and resources all the way across Europe through the Middle East to Palestine. So Mr Goldman, who is found in a camp somewhere in Bavaria is put aboard a truck with his family and shipped across to the Middle East to Palestine where he is given a new life and a new identity, an Israeli identity, with a Hebrew name. Mr Goldman has vanished and the Hebrew gentleman in the Middle East then starts drawing compensation because Mr Goldman has vanished.
[1.2/M]'I'm, I'm unhappy with the way that the Holocaust legend is packaged, I think the capital "H" makes me suspicious from the start. When you give a word a capital "H" then it begins to look like some kind of brand name that's been very slickly packaged and marketed...' [P's interview for the Holmes Show, (New Zealand television), 4 June 1993: K3, Tab. 16, p. 1]
[1.2/N]INTERVIEWER: Are you aware that the Dutch Center for War Documentation has made a full report about this? [The authenticity of the Anne Frank diaries]
IRVING: Doesn't surprise me.
INTERVIEWER: And they say it's, they have made public all the diaries, and they examined the handwriting and all there is to know about it.
IRVING: Doesn't surprise me. A lot of money is at stake, The Anne Frank Foundation is a very wealthy, political organization in Amsterdam.
INTERVIEWER: Yes, well we're talking about the Dutch state's...
INTERVIEWER: ...War Documentation Center here. We're not talking about the Anne Frank Foundation. We're talking about a public institution.
IRVING: But I'm talking about the financial interests which are at stake here. [Videocassette 213, "Dateline", 1h 19m 40s - 1h 20m 25s.]
[1.2/O]'We've only got to go out there long enough and hammer on their doors collectively and say "Come on, show us the evidence. Evidence that is acceptable. Explain this and this and this" and eventually their whole rotten edifice will collapse and fall down. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that either collectively or jointly, or perhaps better still anonymously, we recommend that Holocaust memorial buildings around the world are re-named the Auschwitz buildings. So that when that particular lie comes down they're going to have the indignity and humiliation of having to re-name them. [Laughter] [Unin] Eventually they will come down and eventually there's going to be a great rising outcry of indignation and this is what I regret most because let us be plain - certainly the Jews did suffer in World War II along with a lot of other minorities and ethnic groupings. There's no denying that they did suffer. I don't think they suffered more proportionally than other groups suffered. I don't think that their suffering can be said to be worse than the suffering suffered by the Germans after the war. The great mass expulsions, the great population movements - I don't think that their suffering in that respect is any worse but the fact remains that there was a crime of sorts that has to be atoned for. But to do what Adenauer did in that private conversation with Naim Goldman back in the 1940s, alright, we'll give you [unin], are you satisfied then? And, of course, the State of Israel happily accepted the billion dollars at that time from Germany, and went on to accept more and more and more and the West Germans are still paying and the bill is going to be presented continually, in alle Ewigkeit, the taxi meter is still running. And the only justification for that is the lie that the German people wanted it to happen. That there was an extermination and the extermination was a measure of the German State conducted by the German Führer in the name of the German people.
I've already long ago established that the German state and the German people and the German Führer had nothing to do with it. Whatever happened and there were individual excesses and atrocities and pogroms in places like Minsk and Kiev and Riga. Whatever happened were the crimes conducted for the most ordinary and repugnant motives of greed and thievery. Whatever happened were the crimes of individual gangsters and criminals, who deserved to be individually and separately punished. But this does not justify making an entire people pay and pay and pay in cash, which appears to be the only language that these victims understand. And this is why I hope that perhaps five years from now when I publish my final book, and it has to be my final book probably on Auschwitz, this is why I hope that people recognise that I've managed to pull off a coup even more spectacular than exposing the Hitler diaries as a fake. From one 6 million lie to another. That I will see then some of the world's most famous historians and politicians have the biggest omelette of all time, all over their face because for me, as an historian, I've always been led by one principle, one leitmotiv. In German it's 'es gibt nur die eine Wahrheit, die totale Wahrheit, and in English for myself as an historian there's only one sort of truth that matters and that is total truth. Truth is indivisible. [Applause]' [P's speech in Toronto, August 1988: K3, Tab. 2, pp. 22-23]
[1.2/P]'So how do we explain the fact that for forty-five years since the end of World War Two, we have all, internationally, globally, been beset by a common guilt: the idea that the human race was responsible for liquidating six million human beings in gas chambers. Well, the answer is: we have been subjected to the biggest propaganda offensive that the human race has ever known.'[P's speech to the 10th IHR, October 1990, 'Battleship Auschwitz' (also published in the JHR): K3, Tab. 6, at p. 499]


INTERVIEWER: How important is it?
INTERVIEWER: In whose flesh?

1.4 Mockery of Holocaust survivors


(B) Anti-Semitic themes and language

1.5 International Jewish conspiracy

INTERVIEWER: No this wasn't my question.

1.6 "Traditional enemy/enemies of the Truth"

[1.6/A][On the acquittal of John Demjanjuk in June 1993] 'The world will not easily forget how... [he] was detained in custody by his enemies for two more weeks while they thumbed through their sweaty manuals looking for some way to crush him that they might have overlooked; nor how when they failed again, these Shylocks, cheated of their prey, frogmarched him to his plane home to freedom, still in handcuffs - like a convicted criminal.' ['Will John Demjanjuk now sue his tormentors?', P's Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 10: K4, Tab. 10, p. 50]
[1.6/B]'I was allowed free speech [in Canada], until I injured one of the most cherished shibboleths of its traditional enemy, the history of the Holocaust: the last ten years have seen a new and uglier breed of Untouchables created, ironically by Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose father made his billions as a bootlegger - the criminal enemies of the first "untouchables" in the FBI.' ['A Radical's Diary', P's Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997 (for July 1997), p. 21: K4, Tab. 10, p.59]
[1.6/C]'Every other aspect of world history is open to debate and dispute - except one. Anyone who challenges this one aspect of history is automatically, ipso facto, described as an anti-Semite. Jewish leaders are now saying that anyone who questions any aspect of the Holocaust is an anti-Semite. Of course, that's not true. We are just great lovers of the truth, and determined to get to the bottom of what actually did and did not happen.' [P's speech at the 11th IHR in October 1992: 'Life Under Fire: The Wages of Apostasy' (also published in JHR for Jan/Feb 1993), p. 10: K4, Tab. 10, p. 31 (if required, the full text of this speech, as published in the JHR is in file 3(i), tab 29) ]
[1.6/D]INTERVIEWER: So if you're not a fascist how would you describe your own politics?
IRVING: I think that I'm heading on Intifada against the, against the established version of writing the Holocaust. A one man Intifada. But I think more people...
[P's press conference for the FPP publication of the Leuchter Report, 23 June 1989: K3, Tab. 4, p. 39]
[1.6/E][After Ernst Zündel's house in Toronto was damaged by fire in May 1995, Irving wrote that Zündel] 'has attracted particular activity from the traditional enemy with mass mailings directed into German "occupied territory"....'['Traditional Enemy Torches Zündel's Headquarters', P's Action Report, May 1995, update, p. 1: K4, Tab. 10, p. 45]

1.7 Adverse characterisations of Jews:-

1.7(a) Money, attention seeking etc.

[1.7/B]'I was toying with the idea of blaming the Publishers Weekly piece on Mad Jew Disease, but this might go too far. These people have no sense of humour whatsoever, these people. The slightest drop of rain falls on their butterfly-wings and they crumple into tears.' [Diary entry, 23 March 1996: K4, Tab. 10, p. 54]
[1.7/C]'HOLOCAUSTOMANIA: n, obsession with burnt offerings; hence:} business acumen; greed. (Gr., 1994).' [P's Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 2; K4, Tab. 10, p. 46 (at 1)]
[1.7/D][In February 1994 Irving was briefly imprisoned in Pentonville prison for contempt of court. He described receiving two ten-pound notes and the increase in value as one of them was exchanged around the prison where it was 'changed into drugs, then tobacco, then smack' until it returned to him as three phone cards and an ounce of tobacco.] 'Needless to say the Jew made more profit between the purchase of the smack and it's [sic] final conversion into the "For Use in Her Majesty's Prisons Only" telephone card which finally reaches me.' ['Law Report', P's Action Report, September 1994, p. 10: K4, Tab. 10, p. 35 (at 2)]
[1.7/E]'But we cannot help marvelling at the skill with which the world's media have trod the delicate path - reporting at length on these claims without seeming simultaneously to confirm every antisemite's distorted view of "the Jews" as people who swiftly amass huge fortunes while residing in the countries of their choice and then furtively squirrel away their ill-gotten fortunes in secret numbered bank accounts in far-away countries to avoid taxation and the other lawful burdens imposed on their host peoples.' ['Gold Rush!'Diary', P's Action Report, number 11, 18 December 1996, p. 2: K4, Tab. 10, p. 56]
[1.7/F]'What is remarkable is that this community have considered it worth taking such a long term risk [with their claims against Swiss banks], possibly even sowing the seeds of future Holocausts in the name of a short term gain in Gold: all the elements of antisemitic stereotype are there. The cosmopolitan, rootless, millionaire bereft of any local patriotism; flinging his (in popular perception, ill-gotten) gains out ahead as he escapes from the country where he has briefly rested; the demand for "unclaimed" Gold regardless of whose it is - whether wedding-rings eased off the lifeless fingers of Hamburg or Dresden air raid casualties for identification purposes, and stor2.ed by the bucket-full in the Reichsbank vaults..., or dental fillings ripped out of the bodies of gas chamber victims by S.S. dentists somehow immune to the Zyklon fumes which had dispatched the others.' ['Going for Gold: Opinion', Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997, p. 2: K4, Tab. 10, p. 57 (at 1)]
[1.7/G][Again concerning claims against Swiss banks] '...the squabbles that have already broken out between rival factions - Benjamin Netanyahu, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League - all of whom want their pound of Swiss flesh...' ['Going for Gold: Opinion', Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997, p. 2: K4, Tab. 10, p. 57 (at 2)]
[1.7/H][Writing on his 'grim financial history' being mentioned in a newspaper article] 'So: like many other hard-working people around the world, I incurred debts, many long since settled. I do not try to coast through life by putting up a Whale of a Wale and whining that the world has wronged me and owes me a (Gold-card) living.' ['A Radical's Diary', P's Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997 [on title page, on pages 'July 1997'], p. 22: K4, Tab. 10, p. 60 (at 2)]
[1.7/I][A friend eating dinner with Irving explains that the] 'real estate deals he is doing at the expense of heavily mortgaged property owners. (Ouch.) I comment, "Sounds like you're out-jewing the Jews." He laughs, and agrees.' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 14, July 1998, p. 3: K4, Tab. 10, p. 61]
[1.7/J][On publishing Hitler's medical diaries] ' American magazine I think it was Newsday or People or Us telephoned me in London and said: "Mr Irving, is it true that you're publishing the diaries of Hitler's doctor?" So I said: "Yes," and they said: "Are the Jews going to like this book?" So I said: "I don't think so, no." So he said: "What is the reason for that?" and I said: "Well, they're not mentioned in it."
It is very difficult; we cannot please them. I do my hardest to please them. If you do mention them in a book they are mortally offended, if you don't mention them in a book they are equally offended." [P's speech at the 1983 IHR Conference, Anaheim, California (was also published in the JHR):K4, Tab. 1, p. 20]
[1.7/K][Describing Anthony Julius's complaint that Irving had used the word 'ventilated' in his affidavit to say that the topic of the gas chambers would be opened to examination, Irving wrote] 'God - these people are so sensitive, it is a wonder they're not covered in a permanent and unsightly rash.' ['A Radical's Diary', P's Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 8: K4, Tab. 10, p. 63]
[1.7/L][Writing on a visit by a female friend who tells Irving about her partner, Irving wrote] who earns million-dollar bonuses each year as a broker, but, she laments, he does not have much time for her; she just gets talk about money. He squanders it like water, flies her everywhere first class, etc. (By this time I have guessed that he's Jewish.)' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 20; K4, Tab. 10, p. 65]

1.7(b) Primacy of ethnic loyalty

[1.7/M][In his 'A Radical's Diary' of May 1995 Irving wrote about final court demands against Robert Faurisson that he pay a 30,000 franc fine] 'He asked the court of appeal to allow him to pay in installments. The court president Violette Hannoun refused - oblivious to the fresh concerns that her action, as a Jewess, must stir up among ordinary French people....' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 4: K4, Tab. 10, p. 47]
[1.7/N][In trying to explain Goebbels's anti-Semitism, Irving explains that as an aspiring writer his articles and job applications were 'rudely rebuffed' by the Ullstein and Mosse families] 'The Berliner Tageblatt alone returned to him nearly 50 articles he had submitted.' This was, as Irving explained: "No surprise, if you look at the private papers of Theodor Wollf, chief editor of the Berliner Tageblatt, which was published by the Mosse company. In these papers, which are filed in the German Federal archives, you can see that Wolff was corresponding almost entirely with Jews. It's what we today would call networking; if you're outside the loop, you can't break in.' [P's speech at the 12th IHR Conference in September 1994 (published in the JHR for January/February 1995): K3, Tab. 18, p. 6]
[1.7/O][Writing about the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, Irving mentioned its head was 'Aaron (Ron) Sommer, an Israeli-born American citizen'] 'Yes, the story gets more incredible as it proceeds: why should Germany, presumably a sovereign nation now, put in charge of DT, its most sensitive telecommunications position a man who is not once, but twice a foreign national?
It would be like putting that nice Mr Jonathan Pollard in charge of Britain's GCHQ; or making Mohammed Ghaddafi boss of the National Security Agency.' ['Zündelists Multiply in Cyberspace', Action Report, update, 5 March 1996, p. 3; K4, Tab. 10, p. 52]

1.7 (c) Physical characteristics of Jews


1.8 Jewish/communist/ capitalist nexus

[1.8/A]'...because the Sunday Times like many other newspapers needs international capital to survive. And international capital is provided by the great international merchant banks. And the great international merchant banks are controlled by people who are no friends of yours and mine.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club, 19 September 1992: K4, Tab. 5, p. 4]
[1.8/B][On demonstrators outside his house] 'This odd, and ugly, and perverse, and greasy, and slimy community of "anti-Fascists" that run a severe risk of making the very word Fascist respectable again by their very appearance.![Loud Laughter and Applause]' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club, 19 September 1992: K4, Tab. 5, p. 5]
[1.8/C]'It struck me that Horten had not made any reference to the Jews, a typical thermometer of a person's nationalistic feeling.' [Diary entry, 13 May 1982: K4, Tab. 10, p. 14]
[1.8/D][In 1983 Irving explained to the IHR why it was that he was that he was] 'always running into problems with my critics of a certain persuasion'. [P's speech at the 1983 IHR Conference, 4 September 1983, Anaheim, California: K4, Tab. 1, p. 11]
[1.8/E][Whilst explaining that his thesis that the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 'had the closest possible analogy to a pogrom' was not his opinion, but what emerged from his sources, Irving slipped into his own historical and political views on the matter] 'This Jewish camarilla [Revai, Farkas, Rakosi, and Gerö], this four-headed monster which descended on the Hungarian people, bore down on them from Moscow, had been in Moscow throughout the war years and was imposed upon them as a post-war government, obtaining power by quite illegal and undemocratic means, and exercising that power with brutality and ruthlessness. Its primary executive arm was the secret police, initially called the Allamvedelmi Osztaly (AVO), the State Security Office, and subsequently the AVH. Now it is necessary to know that the officer corps of that secret police was almost entirely Jewish and from the Russian point of view you can understand this. They needed people on whom they could rely 100% to be their officer corps, their secret police.' [P's speech at the 1983 IHR Conference, 4 September 1983: K4, Tab. 1, p. 14]
[1.8/F]'And everywhere you go across the United States now, and you see these Holocaust Memorials and Museums, the American taxpayer must wonder, what's it got to do with us? You go to Baltimore, the centre of Baltimore, and there's this hideous concrete slab, this, this meaningless thing, poked out of a nice park. And you wonder what it's about. And basically it's telling the Americans, [gesticulates with upraised finger] "We are powerful enough to do that to you. We are powerful enough to shaft you. We are powerful enough to put the most hideous Monument you can imagine in the middle of Baltimore, and although you people of Baltimore haven't done anything to us yet, we're putting up a Monument already to it." That's what it's about. [Laughter].' [P's speech at the Bayerische Hof, Milton, Ontario, 5 October 1991: K3, Tab. 10, pp. 9-10]



1.10 Adoption of anti-Semitic programmes


(C) Anti-Semitic abuse

1.11 Abuse of individual Jews:

1.12 Anti-Semitic 'jokes' and anecdotes


2. Racism

[2/A]INTERVIEWER: Are you a racist?
INTERVIEWER: They're not the same word at all.
INTERVIEWER: You went to Britain to be white?
IRVING: Yes. [P's interview for 'Cover Story' (Australian television) 4 March 1997: K4, Tab. 8, pp. 6-7]
[2/B][In Africa Irving observed that the black man] 'With his family, his goat, and his shack he happy [...] What a sad end of Empire for the English: what an abject, unwarranted capitulation of wisdom before ignorance, of the brave before the brutal, of a whole nation to the dictates of an uncivilized world!' [David Irving Diaries (Vol. 57), 23 February 1992: K4, Tab. 10, p. 26 ]
[2/C][Irving sang racist ditties with his young daughter Jessica. He noted in his diary] 'There are two other poems in which she stars: My name is Baby Jessica / I've got a pretty dress-ica / But now it's in a mess-ica. And, more scurrilously, that when half-breed children are wheeled past:
I am a Baby Aryan
Not Jewish or Sectarian
I have no plans to marry-an
Ape or Rastafarian.
Benté [the mother of Jessica] is suitably shocked.' [David Irving Diaries (Vol. 60), 17 September 1994: K4, Tab. 10, p. 38]
Because basically international news is a serious thing and I yearn for the old days of Lord Reith, when the news reader on the BBC, which was the only channel in those times, wore a dinner jacket and bow tie and rose to the occasion [...] But now we have women reading out news to us. If they could perhaps have their own news which they were reading to us I suppose [Laughter], it would be very interesting. [Good-natured female heckling].
[2/E][In answer to the rhetorical question of why, in his mind, why ethnic minorities have 'a very high profile' on television, Irving replied] 'The answer is of course, they're trying to force this multicultural, this multi-ethnic mix, what Winston Churchill himself called a kind of artists sludge [...] And he [Churchill] knew what he was saying, because he was speaking back in the 1940s and 1950s before this appalling national tragedy.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club, 19 September 1992: K4, Tab. 5, p. 11]
[2/F]'...and the Conservatives, I think we're all ashamed to say, bear the greatest blame for what's happened to this country over the last 30 years, this act of self-immolation, when you consider that more coloured immigrants are now in this country, 3 times as many as the size of the army with which Adolf Hitler invaded Russia in 1941. You can see the size of the invasion that we have passively, silently and cowardly and cravenly succumbed to in this country. Worst than that of course, anybody who objects to it in this country has to watch his language very closely, as [unintelligible] who's in our presence today knows, have to watch your language very carefully in order not to fall foul, fall foul of the full majesty of the law.'[P's speech at Bow Town Hall, 29 May 1992: K4, Tab.4, p. 2]
[2/G]INTERVIEWER: were quoted on, Mr Irving, you were quoted on radio in Australia yesterday saying it makes you queasy seeing black men playing cricket for England. Can you explain to us what you mean by that?
[2/H]'Patriotism always involves a certain degree of hostility to foreigners. In fact people sometimes say to me, "Mr. Irving, racism." And I say, "You tell me this: what is the difference between racism and patriotism?" They're both two ways of describing the same kind of elemental xenophobia that exists in every human being that God created.' [P's interview for This Week, 28 November 1991: K3, tab 12, pp. 10-11]
But we have to make it attractive to them. We have to provide them with full economy, uh, a full employment to which they can return. We can't send them back to unemployment; if you pay them five thousand pounds to leave from Heathrow they'll come back in through Prestwick, and leave again through Heathrow and it'll be the biggest stage army since Henry the Fifth! [Laughter] So my views are given roughly there.' [P's speech to the Clarendon Club', 19 September 1992: K4, Tab. 5, pp. 6-7]

3. Misogyny

[3/C]See extract 2/D above.

4. Political chauvinism.

IRVING: Oh yes.
INTERVIEWER: And rid of foreigners?

5. Hitler partisan

[5/A]IRVING: ...I think Adolf Hitler made a lot of mistakes. He surrounded himself by people of very very poor quality. He was a rotten judge of character. These are the mistakes that you have to avoid replicating.
INTERVIEWER: What's the way in which you would like to resemble Hitler?
IRVING: I'd like to build Autobahns, I'd like to design great cities and buildings, I'd like to be able to stand in front of an audience which the BBC once showed magnificently in a hundredth birthday film. Bill Jones did this. They took the episode where Hitler delivered a speech. But what they showed was not him speaking, they showed the two or three minutes when he arrived on the podium and just stood there, drinking in the applause of 100,000 people first. Not many orators can do that. It takes, I'm trying to develop oratory. I'm always very grateful when I speak to live audiences. I would be grateful if I could be as magnificent an orator as Adolf Hitler or as flowery an orator as Winston Churchill. [P's interview for This Week, 28 November 1991: K3, tab 12, p. 11]
[5/B]'Fed Ex delivered my missing package and I can see the missing Hitler self-portrait through the burst corners of the box. Hoorah' [Diary entry, 5 April 1995; K4, Tab. 10, p. 44]
[5/C]'At the kiosk was a picture of Hitler and three miners, with bikes, standing on the bridge. "A feiner kerl" [a nice guy] I commented to the kiosk owner, but earned only a sniff in reply.' [Diary entry for 10 November 1989; K4, Tab. 10, p. 20]
[5/D]'I think they're [the Jews] making a mistake. For thirty years they've tried to make my life impossible. But the irony is that because of that I've become involved in the whole debate about the Holocaust. And because of that it may make the life of the state of Israel impossible.' [P's interview for This Week, 28 November 1991: K3, tab 12, p. 12]
[5/E]INTERVIEWER: ...So that's beyond dispute. How can you say that, that Hitler was the Jews' best friend?
IRVING: What I did in fact say was that, that in view of the fact that without Adolph Hitler and the Holocaust, as it's now called, the state of Israel might even, might even now very well not exist. In this respect, of course, Hitler did the Jews a great service. [P's interview with Ray Martin, 21 March 1986: K4, Tab. 2, p. 1 ]
[5/F]INTERVIEWER: David, do you think Hitler was a...a...a, was a bad thing?
IRVING: Hitler was a war criminal. He committed crimes on the same scale as, as I maintain on the same scale, as, for example, Roosevelt or Truman, who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima or Stalin who bombed Dresden. The same kind of war criminal. When people get to that stage they forget ethics and morals. [P's interview with Ray Martin, 21 March 1986: K4, Tab. 2, p. 9]

5.1 Endorsement of Hitler/Hitler programmes

[5/G]'...a man of a certain amount of intellectual honesty' [P's speech at IHR Conference, 4 September 1983, Anaheim: K4, Tab. 1, p. 11]
[5/H]'Basically Hitler himself determined who should be his biographer. I know that since I found Hitler's ear, nose, and throat doctor in Krefeld in early 1970, the man who treated Hitler after the assassination attempt of 20 July 1944, Dr. Erwin Giesing. I called on him in his practice. He had no time at that moment and I had to wait for half an hour for him. Already in the waiting room he gave me a file to read, about 500 typed pages. Can you imagine how one feels when one reads the diary of the doctor who treated Hitler after the assassination attempt? It begins on 23 July 1944. I ask him, why are you giving this to me, Herr Dr. Giesing? He answers me, read page 387. It's about a conversation between Hitler and Giesing. The doctor writes that he had to treat Hitler for the pain in his ears. He writes, I asked the Führer if he knew that the Kaiser also once suffered from a similar ear pain. He nodded. I asked him if he had read that very good book about the Kaiser written by an Englishman, 'A Mythical Creature of our Times'. The Führer answered in the affirmative to this too. I said, actually the Kaiser came off very well. After all he was an Englishman. The Englishman managed to utilise the Kaiser's hand-written papers. Hitler said, Herr Doctor Giesing, for two years now I too have also gone over to allowing protocols of my discussions to be taken down. Perhaps an Englishman will also come one day who wants to write an objective biography of me. It has to be an Englishman of the next generation. Because a representative of the present generation cannot write the truth about me and certainly won't want to either. It has to be an Englishman who knows the archives and who has mastered the German language. And that is why you are getting the diaries Mr Irving, the doctor said. 'Adolf Hitler hat im Grunde selbst bestimmt, wer sein Biograph werden sollte. Daß weiß ich, seit ich Anfang 1970 in Krefeld den Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenarzt gefunden habe, der Hitler nach den Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944 behandelt hat: Dr. Erwin Giesing. Ich habe ihn in seiner Praxis aufgesucht. Er hatte gerade keine Zeit, und ich mußte eine halbe Stunde auf ihn warten. Er gab mir aber schon im Wartezimmer einen Akt zu lesen, ungefähr 500 Blatt Schreibmaschine. Das war sein Tagebuch. Können Sie sich vorstellen, wie man sich fühlt, wenn man das Tagebuch des Arztes liest, der Hitler nach dem Attentat behandelt hat? Es beginnt am 23. Juli 1944. Ich frage ihn: Wieso geben Sie mir das, Herr Dr. Giesing? Er antwortet mir: lesen Sie die Seite 387. Da geht's um ein Gespräch zwischen Hitler und Giesing. Der Arzt berichtet, daß er Hitler wegen eines Ohrenleidens zu behandeln hatte. Er schreibt: Ich fragte den Führer, ob er wisse, daß auch der Kaiser schon einmal unter einem derartigen Ohrenleiden gelitten habe. Er nickte. Ich fragte ihn, ob er das von einem Engländer geschriebene, sehr gute Buch über den Kaiser "Ein Fabeltier unserer Zeit" gelesen habe. Der Führer bejahte auch dies. Ich sagte: Eigentlich ist der Kaiser sehr gut wegekommen. Immerhin war der Autor Engländer. Diesem Engländer ist es gelungen, die schriftlichen Unterlagen des Kaisers auszuwerten. Hitler sagte: Herr Doktor Giesing, seit zwei Jahren bin auch ich dazu übergangen, von meinen Besprechungen Wortprotokolle aufnehemen zu lassen. Vielleicht kommt eines Tages auch ein Engländer, der über mich eine objektive Biographie schreiben will. Das muß ein Engländer der nächste Generation sein. Er kann nicht aus der heutigen Generation stammen. Denn ein Vertreter der heutigen Generation kann über mich nicht die Wahrheit schreiben und will es sicherlich auch gar nicht. Es muß ein Engländer sein, der die Archive kennt und auch die deutsche Sprache beherrscht. Und deswegen, sagte der Arzt, bekommen Sie das Tagebuch, Herr Irving.' [Guido Knopp (ed.), Hitler heute. Gespräche über ein deutsches Trauma (Aschaffenberg, 1979), pp. 70-71: K4, Tab. 10, p. 69]
[5/I][After a speech at Oundel school] 'The Hitler self-portrait is as always the clincher; after I finish they storm the stage to shake my hand, to finger the portrait - something that That Man himself once touched! And to snap up books from the table....' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997 (on title page, on pages 'July 1997' ) p. 17: K4, Tab. 10, p. 58 ]
[5/J][At Washington University Irving handed out 'large HITLER'S WAR posters' to those 'good looking' students who asked 'intelligent questions' and added] 'I point out that (a) they can annoy the pants off their parents with them, and (b) nobody can paint Hitler moustaches on them, as he already has one.' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 22: K4, Tab. 10, p. 66]
[5/K][Irving offered his readers a 'historic lesson' from the Monica Lewinsky scandal that engulfed US President Bill Clinton, and the investigation by Kenneth Starr] 'If this had been the Third Reich, Starr, not Clinton, would have found himself in hot water. Adolf Hitler would have seen to that. In a Nazi regulation [Irving cites the reference] that is rarely quoted (it is in my Hitler's War), one which Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Ministry of Justice issued on Hitler's orders on August 11, 1942, it was forbidden to interrogate women under any circumstances about their sexual relations with men. The lawyer-hating Führer had gained the impression, the new regulation said, that prosecutors conducted such interrogations purely for one purpose: their own sexual gratification. This is an impression, sad to say, which lingers around the whole Starr Report.' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 15, 20 July 1999, p. 24; K4, Tab. 10, p. 67]
[5/L]'"Irving: I think they have seen me as some kind of Messiah - the first kind of moderately right-wing person who can speak the Queen's English as opposed to the hobnailed-boot mobs who march up and down the East End of London or in Brixton. I think they're mistaken. Because I'm not interested in the infantry at present, I'm interested in the officer corps, and it is the officer corps of this particular thinking movement that I'm assembling at present."' [Diary entry, 19 June 1981: K4, Tab. 10, p. 3]


IRVING: Populist.
INTERVIEWER: A populist?
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