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Originally Posted by BrianC
Hi Steve
Why should David Irving's reputation as a historian be doubted? Have you not read his 'Destruction of Convoy PQ17'?
Cheers
Brian
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Brian, it was a long time ago and you may not recall that that particular book resulted in Irving being successfully sued for libel by Capt. Broome, the escort commander. Further, in the action that Irving initiated against Deborah Lipstadt ...
“The judge summarised his findings as follows: Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist, and that he associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism... therefore the defence of justification succeeds...”
Hence the reservations expressed in the earlier post.