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Douglas Davis

Douglas Davis

Just the Facts

Bartov added that it was important to expose people like Irving, \”who has been published by respectable publishers and been cited by scholars like me. But in recent years, he\’d become more extreme and associated himself with neo-Nazi circles.\”

Truth Prevails

Justice Charles Gray, the quintessence of British correctness, courtesy and understatement, did not mince words when he declared that David Irving was indeed, as Lipstadt had charged, an anti-Semite, a racist, a distorter of history, a partisan of Hitler and a Holocaust denier.

Will Truth Prevail?

Emerging from the Royal Courts of Justice here on the evening of March 15 was like leaving a musty 17th-century ecclesiastical battle for the fresh air of the 21st century.

Trial’s End

David Irving told the High Court in London this week that some of the world\’s largest Jewish organizations are involved in an international conspiracy against him.

Hostile Action

Holocaust revisionist David Irving mocked victims of the Holocaust by \”feeding and encouraging the most cynical anti-Semitism\” in his speeches, it was alleged last week at a trial for a defamation suit that Irving has filed against a U.S. scholar.

Scholarly Pursuit

David Irving, who denies that Jews were systematically exterminated in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, is claiming that Lipstadt ruined his reputation and career by labeling him a Holocaust denier — and asserting that he twisted historical data to suit his own bias.

Flawed Logic

A Holocaust revisionist who is suing a U.S. historian for libel has dismissed eyewitness accounts, drawings and photographs of Auschwitz gas chambers that showed vents in the roof through which lethal gases were introduced.

Undeniable Truth

Irving is suing Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin Books, over passages in her book, \”Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.\”

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