David Irving
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"David John Cawdell Irving" is an English Holocaust denier and author*"In 1969, after David Irving's support for Rolf Hochhuth, the German playwright who accused Winston Churchill of murdering the Polish wartime leader General Sikorski, The Daily Telegraph issued a memo to all its correspondents. 'It is incorrect,' it said, 'to describe David Irving as a historian. In future we should describe him as an author.'"

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Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.

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Because of my ability to stand up to the experts ... to take them all on single-handed.

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Smoking is just a prop or wardrobe that helps identify a character as a bad guy. They have to do whatever they can to make the audience feel that this is a despicable person who is fighting or challenging the hero.

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I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

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History is like a constantly changing tree.

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Applaud uncontrolled colored immigration.

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Of course it's a question of freedom of speech. The law is an ass.

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The historical truth and that I alone have been getting it right.

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Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.

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