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 Re: كذبة الهولوكوست يهودي أمريكي قالها بدون خ (Re: سيف اليزل برعي البدوي)
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Gas chamber claims impossible, says Irving
Libel action author denies that Holocaust was systematic
Simon Wiesenthal Center
The holocaust history project
Vikram Dodd
Thu 13 Jan 2000 12.51 EST First published on Thu 13 Jan 2000 12.51 EST
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The author David Irving yesterday denied in the high court that the Nazis used gas chambers to murder millions of Jews during the second world war.
The alleged Nazi apologist is suing for libel over a book that called him a "Holocaust denier" and his claim came as he entered the witness box on the second day of the trial.
Mr Irving said it was logistically impossible for millions of people to have been gassed to death, and denied that the Holocaust had been "systematic" or ordered by the Third Reich's leadership.
He is taking legal action over a book, Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, which he says ruined his career. Mr Irving is suing its author, the American academic Deborah Lipstadt, and her publisher, Penguin Books.
Questioned by Richard Rampton QC, for both Professor Lipstadt and Penguin, Mr Irving said he believed that the Nazis had killed between one and four million Jews during the second world war.
Asked by Mr Rampton: "Do you deny that the Nazis killed millions of Jews in gas chambers in purpose built establishments؟", he replied: "Yes".
Mr Irving, who is representing himself, said: "I deny that millions died in the gas chambers because of the logistical problems for a start."
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He said that a million people would weigh 100,000 tonnes and that the "logistical and architectural impossibilities" in constructing extermination camps could not be over looked.
Mr Rampton quoted from a transcript of a 1991 press conference Mr Irving gave, where the author said: "The biggest lie of the lot, the blood libel on the German people, is the lie that the Germans had factories of death in which they liquidated millions of their opponents."
Mr Irving conceded that he had cut the word Holocaust which had appeared in his 1977 biography of Hitler, for its second edition in 1991.
Mr Rampton quoted Mr Irving as saying about the revision of the book: "You won't find the Holocaust mentioned in one line, not even in a footnote, why should [you]. If something didn't happen, then you don't even dignify it with a footnote."
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Mr Irving insisted that this passage referred only to the Holocaust via gas chambers. He said that he found the term Holocaust "offensive and unhelpful" and that it "should be avoided like the plague" because it was so imprecise.
Mr Irving accepted that his view about the non-existence of the gas chambers put him at odds with the public's view that they existed.
The author repeatedly denied the mass murder of Jews had been systematic, and said: "The defendants will find it very hard to prove it was a Third Reich decision and an Adolf Hitler decision. There were multiple shootings but it was not pursuant to any programme."
Mr Irving stood by this position despite being challenged by Mr Rampton, who said it was undermined by a 1942 report seen by Adolf Hitler detailing the massacre by one German unit of 363,211 Jews on the eastern front.
In August 1941 Hitler had ordered that he be kept informed of the activities of the unit, the Einsatzgruppen, a special SS death squad operating behind German lines.
Mr Irving described the document as "an orphan", saying there were no other reports of this nature which existed and were addressed to the fuhrer.
Three-and-a half hours in the witness box left Mr Irving looking tired.
Mr Irving said he had at first ignored Prof Lipstadt's book. But by 1996 he found its allegations had led to the ruination of his career. A US contract for a biography of Goebbels was terminated.
He said her book had exposed him to "a burden of hatred" that had led to him being attacked by a Jew shouting that he was a "Holocaust denier".
Mr Irving added that after the recent death of his disabled daughter, a wreath was sent in the name of the head of the Nazis' extermination programme of the disabled.
It emerged yesterday that Prof Lipstadt will not testify in her defence. But Mr Irving played a videotape of her on a 1994 Australian television programme, in which she said of revisionist historians: "They are the #####alent of people who believe the earth is flat, Elvis Presley is alive and well, or there was no slavery."
The trial, which is being heard before Mr Justice Gray without a jury, continues.
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