David Irving Interview - Part 1 - An Independent Mind (2008)
The English Centre of International PEN reviewed the film approvingly:
THE final interview, and arguably the most controversial, was with the historian David Irving. While he still vehemently denies accusations of racism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, Irving conceded that he had voiced “doubts and scepticism” about Auschwitz during a speech he had given in Austria in 1989. He was arrested for attempting to reactivate the Nazi party and in trial admitted that he had denied that Nazi Germany had killed millions of Jews. In February 2006, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
While in no way condoning Irving’s position on the Holocaust, English PEN deplored the court’s decision. “It should not be a crime in a free society to publish opinion, however poorly dressed up as fact,” PEN said in a statement. “It is more important than ever that democracies deal with contentious issues through debate and ridicule rather than through suppression by law.”
Similarly, Irving contended that everyone should be given a voice, no matter how contentious their opinion. “I want to visit a free Germany where everyone is free to say what they want and that every opinion can be freely held up and exposed either to acclaim or ridicule,” he said. “As soon as you start saying this opinion is acceptable and that option isn’t acceptable then you are degrading society, and society is losing in the long run.” While Bloomstein conceded that Irving “represents something immensely troubling” he was adamant that “we have to take these people on [] Irving makes us think about the limits.”
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I LOVE THIS MAN !!! …
I LOVE THIS MAN !!! What would be the ed up world without this great historian… what a brave brave man !!!
He certainly gets …
He certainly gets the most laughs.
Hurrah for David …
Hurrah for David Irving!!!! He’s the best historian in the whole planet Earth!!!
He shld have gone 2 …
He shld have gone 2 iran.He’ll b a hero there.I think ahmadinejad shld start a new conference n invite Irving there.
which of my points …
which of my points do i need to provide evidence for? how can jews in the holocaust be white europeans? werent the ones doing the killing white europeans? maybe ur telling me something new here,maybe it was the white europeans being killed by the jew,just like the soviet jews did to the white ukrainians and eastern europeans,u just cant see any bad u jews do,millions upon millions of white innocent white people were killed by jews in the 2nd world war but u cant admit that coz ur a jew
the jews in the …
the jews in the holocaust were white europeans u douchebag. and the 100 million u refer to were predominantly soldiers, prisoners of war and ye some innocent people with different views. the difference was that the jews were all innnocent, being slaughtered for how they were born, not what they did.
thats a great …
thats a great argument right there, calling me a paedophile and dirty jew just shows how stupid and pathetic u are, yet despite all ur claims u have failed to produce any evidence. btw have u ever even met a jew? clearly not.
what have i said …
what have i said thats a lie? its all true,ur just a typical disgusting jew who sticks up for dirty jew criminals just because their the same race as u,u horrible peadophile!!
please go educate …
please go educate urself and stop spreading lies. not one bit of wat uv said is true because if it was ud be able to prove it.
i have. u wana no …
i have. u wana no were mine comes from? survivors.
whats that supposed …
whats that supposed to mean? so u think every jewish person is the same? and u can steriotype them all under one heading? let me guess u believe they have horns right? and drink blood? have u ever even met a jewish person? clearly not.
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“oh and the number …
“oh and the number 6 million comes from all the lists and records of names they kept.”
oh.. tell me something about it. where did you find these lists? have you dug it our in your garden. many historians would apreciate this kind of evidence
where did i say …
where did i say that jews were not murdured by nazis at all?
the number of aushwitz victims fell from4mln to 1 mln. why didnt the owerall number fell to 3?
what about Treblinka geological structures. try some specifics. i dont like google copypaste
ok u seem to be …
ok u seem to be contradicting urself here. are u saying the holocaust happened but in smaller numbers or not at all.. because 6 million isnt impossible, including the pogroms death marches camps people that died in the ghettos thats round about the right number.
um. seriously? …
um. seriously? maybe u should go read a history book.. or check urself into a menatl institution.
wow. u rlly belive …
wow. u rlly belive that if there werent any jews there wouldnt be any problems in this world? have u ever met a jewish person? no. its all the baseless haters like u out there that are the reason for all the ill in the world
ok are u crazy or …
ok are u crazy or just plain stupid? du rlly believe wat uv sed? no jews said anything about being murdered before 1922. the holocaust happnede around 20 yrs later. go educate urself and stop spreading lies.
it is illegal in my …
it is illegal in my country(Poland) to share opinions about Holocaust. you can go to prizon for publicly saying that it is imposible to fit in 2000 people at once in 200square meter gas chaimber and that crematories were not eficient enough to cremate 1/10 of the oficial 1milion in Aushwitz. some of my reltives were slawes in nazi camps so it is not about neonazizm or antisemitism, it is about truth and freedom of speach. it is still a crime even if naziz killed 600.000 innocent”JEWS”.taboo?
do you realy think …
do you realy think that nazis would be so stupid to kill 6 milion people and not burn the evidence documents? when they realized they will fail the war they dig out 700.000uncremated bodies in Treblinka to burn it and destroy the evidence(acording to the oficial story it took them 3 months in winter). you mean the did that and forgot to burn some evidence papers? this is extreme stupid. the lists that surwived and data from enigma complately rejects 6mln.this number is technicaly imposible
When David Irving …
When David Irving says that he agreed with many of Hitler’s opinion, including women, a quick search suggests that Hitler thought that women should not work, but make their world their husband, home and children. I also read that Hitler thought that the concept of the emancipation of women was an intellectual invention. I don’t know how true this is, maybe someone has better sources. Certainly, in the “developed” world, the economy has adjusted to make it essential that women work.
actually the nazis …
actually the nazis were very meticulous and documented everything they did. ever heard of the wansee conference? because the manusscript THEY typed up proves that yes yes they did murder jews, oh and the number 6 million comes from all the lists and records of names they kept.
why du hate them? …
why du hate them? have u met one? and dont generalize it just shows how pathetic ur argument is and how small minded and uneducated u rlly are. jewish lie machine?? are u ing kidding me??
he actually inst …
he actually inst denying the killing of the jews what he is saying is that hitler was not the main architect in this and that the killing was not sistematic, it was more of a killing made by the officers in the field, he denyies the gas method nad probably the amount of victims yet his argument doesnt seem irrational, are there any historians with documents that can argue against what he is saying?
LOL! That’s exactly …
LOL! That’s exactly the problem - too much guessing!