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Irving versus lipstadt: a historian's view of the case

Pages 17-44 | Published online: 31 Aug 2007

  • Irving , David . 1983 . Hitler's war, vol 1, 1939–1942, vol 2, 1942–1945 London first publ 1977
  • Quoted on Irving's website http://www.fpp.co.uk, which contains much material on the case, including a full transcript of the proceedings, the expert reports, and the judgment. I am grateful to Simon Dagut for assistance with the internet.
  • This was Donald Cameron Watt, who gave evidence in Irving's favour, but only after being served with a subpoena, having declined to do so voluntarily Proceedings 22 52 Day 7, (on Irving's website — see note 2). Likewise Sir John Keegan, the military editor of the Daily Telegraph, who had reviewed Irving's Hitler's war favourably: Proceedings, Day 16, pp 11–12.
  • Proceedings 61 – 61 . Day 1
  • Evans , Richard J . Expert witness report 25 – 26 . (on Irving's website — see note 2). In referring to Evans's Report, I use the pagination as it appears on the website, which differs from the original. The paragraphs of the Report are numbered, but the numbers are confusing and impossible to follow.
  • Evans . Report 58 – 58 .
  • Proceedings 108 – 115 . Day 7
  • Lipstadt , Deborah E . 1993 . Denying the Holocaust: the growing assault on truth and memory New York chapter 9
  • Proceedings 98 – 99 . Day 1
  • Proceedings 228 – 228 . Day 2, Lipstadt, Denying, p 179.
  • Lipstadt . Denying 181 – 181 .
  • Irving , David . 1996 . Goebbels: mastermind of the Third Reich 46 – 47 . London Evans, Report, pp 356–9; Proceedings, Day 29, pp 98–105.
  • Irving's most extended treatment of Kristallnacht is in his Goebbels 271 282 chapter 32, Evans's critique is in pp 116–153 of his Report. See also Proceedings, Day 12, pp 75–142, Day 13, pp 23–69, Day 21, pp 8–162.
  • Irving , David . 1963 . The destruction of Dresden London Evans, Report, pp 273–305; Proceedings, Day 13, pp 69–185, Day 23, pp 194–224.
  • Irving . Hitler's war Vol. I , xiv – xiv .
  • Proceedings 28 – 29 . Day 3, Judgement, V, 5.106 (on Irving's website — see note 2).
  • Quotations and information from Evans Report 166 168
  • Evans . Report 168 – 168 .
  • Irving . Hitler's war Vol. I , 332 – 332 .
  • Proceedings 121 – 132 . Day 4
  • Proceedings 66 – 81 . Day 3
  • Evans . Report 217 – 230 .
  • Proceedings 184 – 184 . Day 6, quoting a lecture by Irving
  • Proceedings 184 – 184 . Day 6
  • Browning , Christopher R . Expert opinion, evidence for the implementation of the Final Solution Part 1, on Irving's website (see note 2)
  • Browning . Evidence paragraph 4.5
  • Browning . Evidence paragraphs 4.1.6–4.1.8
  • Irving . Hitler's war 436 – 436 . & n
  • Proceedings 262 – 278 . Day 2
  • Proceedings 60 – 60 . Day 14
  • Proceedings 66 – 67 . Day 14
  • Proceedings 81 – 85 . Day 29
  • Irving . Goebbels 377 – 377 . based on H R Trevor-Roper (ed) Hitler's table talk (London, 1953), pp 87 & 90.
  • Evans . Report 155 – 158 .
  • Proceedings 168 – 190 . Day 4
  • Proceedings 83 – 88 . Day 24, Dr Longerich's evidence
  • Proceedings 141 – 141 . Day 4, Day 16, p 121; Day 29, pp 152 & 155; see especially Day 32, p. 94
  • Evans . Report , 232 – 232 . Evans deals with this subject on pp 230–46
  • Irving . Hitler's war , I 392 – 392 . The chronological confusion that Evans refers to (p 234) in the first edition of Hitler's war (1977) has been rectified in the 1988 impression of the paperback edition
  • See above Himmler's telephone log
  • Evans . Report , 233 – 234 .
  • Proceedings 17 – 73 . Day 23, Judgement, paragraphs 13.10, 13.27 and 13.28
  • See Evans Report 350 355 Hitler's decision-making process
  • Evans . Report , 353 – 353 .
  • Bullock , Alan . 1993 . Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives 704 – 704 . London Bullock states that this description is based on ‘all who knew him’
  • Bullock . Hitler and Stalin 707 – 708 .
  • Evans . Report , 352 – 353 .
  • Irving . Hitler's war , II 630 – 631 . & n
  • Judgement paragraph 13.46
  • Judgment paragraph 13.46
  • Irving . Hitler's war 508 – 510 . Evans, Report, pp 246–55; Proceedings, Day 12, pp 32–55, Day 23, pp 112–22, 149–60; Day 29, pp 85–7; Day 32, pp 12–15.
  • Evans . Report , 59 – 59 .
  • Evans . Report , 89 – 89 .
  • Evans . Report , 362 – 367 . Lipstadt, Denying, pp 111 & 213–15.
  • Proceedings 196 – 196 . Day 19, & 205
  • Proceedings 109 – 109 . Day 4
  • Evans . Report , 74 – 74 .
  • Evans . Report , 86 – 86 . Proceedings, Day 7, p 184
  • Evans . Report , 65 – 65 . Proceedings, Day 19, pp 176–9
  • Evans . Report , 362 – 367 .
  • O'Brien , Conor Cruise . 1988 . The siege: the saga of Israel and Zionism 246 – 247 . London
  • Evans . Report , 74 – 74 .
  • Lipstadt , Deborah E . 1986 . Beyond belief: the American press and the coming of the Holocaust 1933–1945 8 – 9 . New York Evans, Report, p 339.
  • Proceedings 106 – 107 . Day 4, Judgement, paras 13.56–8
  • Judgement par 3.63
  • Proceedings 5 – 10 . Day 5, Day 23, pp 15–6; Day 24, pp 160–5, 189–91; Day 19, pp 200–1; Day 25, pp 1–2, 162–3
  • Proceedings 191 – 192 . Day 19, 199
  • Proceedings 12 – 12 . Day 1, Day 2, p 232; Day 5, p 138; Day 6, p 81; Day 7, p 90; Day 8, p 161; Day 14, pp 34, 42, 50 & 63.
  • Proceedings 130 – 131 . Day 2
  • Proceedings 202 – 204 . Day 19
  • Judgement par 13.83
  • Proceedings 161 – 162 . Day 32
  • Jacobson , Dan . 2000 . The downfall of David Irving . Times Literary Supplement , April : 12 – 12 . 21
  • Proceedings 85 – 88 . Day 8, Day 11, pp 183–6; Judgement, paras 7.121–2 & 13.84–6
  • Judgement paras 13.92–99
  • Proceedings 153 – 155 . Day 2
  • Proceedings 114 – 114 . Day 32, Banquo's ghost appears to be the anti-defamation league of the B'nai Brith
  • April 2000 . BBC interview with Tim Sebastian April , 25
  • Proceedings 114 – 114 . Day 32
  • Judgement paras 13.140–13.163
  • Evans . Report 377 – 377 .
  • Proceedings 39 – 49 . Day 7, Day 16, pp 3–11
  • Evans . Report 105 – 105 .
  • Evans . Report 62 – 62 .
  • Evans . Report 105 – 106 . and see generally, pp 28–40 & 103–111
  • Evans . Report 377 – 377 .
  • 1977 . “ Compare the ‘instrumentalist’ Lucy Dawidowicz ” . In The war against the Jews, 1933–45 Harmondsworth first publ London, 1975) with Christopher Browning, The path to genocide: essays on launching the Final Solution (New York, 1992), esp chaps 1, 2 & 5, which take account of ‘functionalist’ arguments.
  • Evans . Report 375 – 375 .
  • Irving . Hitler's war Vol. I , xiii – xiii . Proceedings, Day 1, p 30; Day 2, p 173; Day 5, p 182; Day 32, pp 77–8; Evans, Report, pp 21–2.
  • Proceedings 107 – 108 . Day 24
  • Proceedings 101 – 101 . Day 24
  • Proceedings 163 – 163 . Day 21
  • Hitler , Adolf . 1973 . Mein Kampf 60 – 60 . London trans R Manheim, intro D C Watt, esp, 294, 584–5, 605
  • Proceedings 35 – 35 . Day 3
  • Kershaw , Ian . 1999 . Hitler, 1889–1936, vol I, Hubris , 151 – 153 . London : Penguin . esp, 245–6
  • Evans . Report 20 – 21 .
  • Bullock . Hitler and Stalin 23 – 24 .
  • Proceedings 168 – 168 . Day 2, Day 3, pp 20, 73, 192, 193; Day 6, p 179; Day 8, pp 25–6; Day 24, p 132
  • Proceedings 31 – 31 . Day 5
  • Proceedings 182 – 182 . Day 5, See also Day 4, pp 66 & 79; Day 6, pp 182-4
  • Proceedings 49 – 49 . Day 7
  • Evans , Richard J . 1997 . In defence of history 116 – 124 . London Evans, Report, p 376. An account of this affair, by a friend and former teacher of the historian/lawyer in question is in Pęter Novick, That noble dream: the ‘objectivity question’ and the American historical question (Cambridge, 1988), pp 612–621.
  • Proceedings 95 – 97 . Day 19
  • See the examples in Evans In defence of history, and especially Keith Windschuttle, The killing of history: how literary critics and social theorists are murdering our past New York 1997
  • Novick , Peter . 1999 . The Holocaust in American life 270 – 272 . New York Evans, Defence of history, pp 238–43.

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