"Göring a biography" by David Irving

[Jukka Juutinen]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

You might want to take a look at this site for a detailed examination of how Irving has used source material.

The argument isn't over "political correctness" (whatever that's supposed to be), it's about standards of historical scholarship.

The argument is not about political correctness? Hmm! I took a look at the site referred to. When it has become a sign of historical truth to point to rabbinical sites? When has Deborah Lipstadt become a "distinguished" scholar? Didn´t John Keegan describe her as a mediocity, an also ran? In a world where several countries have specifically rescinded* freedom of opinion on one particular genocide, can a trial on that opinion be really objective and neutral, free from politics? I don´t think it can.

*If Angie Kurva Merkel (all possible insults intended) has her way, denying the holocaust in any EU country would be a felony subject to a penalty (up to 3 yrs in prison) that by Finnish standards is the time served by a felon convicted of manslaughter and higher than the time served by average rapists.

[Andrew Arthy]

Hi,

I would highly recommend this section of the website Nick included in his post: http://www.hdot.org/evidence/evans.asp

Richard J. Evans is a highly respected and very knowledgeable historian of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The case he makes for Irving being a very poor historian is damning.

Evans demonstrates that Irving was making questionable statements based on non-existant or unreliable evidence from his very earliest works.

To quote Evans: "Not one of his books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject. All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about."

Cheers,
Andrew A.

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