If you have never heard of David Irving, you're in good company. He has faded into obscurity somewhat, but in the early 1990s through the early 2000s Irving was heavy player in the Holocaust denier community—that band of tin-hat armchair historians and anti-Semites who hawk the idea that the Nazi's genocide of Jewish people was a hoax. Irving was one of its chief shills, and for a decade traveled the globe spewing pro-Nazi revisions of history.
Irving's persistent anti-Holocaust gas-bagging attracted the attention of legitimate Holocaust historian Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt. She penned a scathing indictment of Holocaust deniers called
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory and stated, "Irving is one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial. Familiar with historical evidence, he bends it until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda... He is most facile at taking accurate information and shaping it to confirm his conclusions." For her troubles, Lipstadt was sued by Irving for libel in British court.
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