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Part of the English attack plan on Peenemünde was to lure the German fighters away from the target by a small diversion attack on Berlin. Again, professional historians such as Donald Cameron Watt noted numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations. Holocaust denial is a crime in several European countries, including Germany and France, and the government is still considering proposals to introduce similar laws in Britain.

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In 1977 on a BBC1 television programme, he said that Hitler "became a statesman and then a soldier . Irving and Faurisson then flew to Boston to meet with Leuchter, who agreed to lend his alleged technical expertise on the behalf of Zündel's defence. After completing A levels at Brentwood School, Irving studied for a physics degree at Imperial College London, leaving after the first year.

There is no explicit reference to extermination of the Jews of Europe in the Wannsee Conference, not in any of the other documents in that file.

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Since at least the 1970s, he has either questioned or denied Hitler's involvement in the Holocaust and whether or not the Nazis had a plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Irving denied that the Nazis gassed any Jews or other people, with the exception of admitting that a small number of people were gassed during experiments.

In a review of 1977, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote that "no praise can be too high for his [Irving's] indefatigable, scholarly industry". As a result of Irving's success with Dresden, members of Germany's extreme right wing assisted him in contacting surviving members of Hitler's inner circle.

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On 6 October 1995, Irving told an audience in Tampa, Florida, that he agreed with the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels that the Jews "had it coming for them". An eight-member jury at a court in Vienna convicted Irving, 68, a few hours after it began its deliberations on the first day of his trial. I wasn’t aware until recently of how Holocaust denial has now taken off online again to such an extent. Trevor-Roper argued that: "He [Irving] seizes on a small, but dubious particle of 'evidence'; builds upon it, by private interpretation, a large general conclusion; and then overlooks or re-interprets the more substantial evidence and probability against it. Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of Adolf Hitler (pictured).Handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, he arrived at the court carrying a copy of one of his most controversial books, Hitler's War, which challenges the extent of the Holocaust.

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In a feuilleton published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 18 October 1989 the German historian Rainer Zitelmann praised Irving for having "struck a nerve" with his provocative style and aggressive assertions. Help comes - three dollars here, five dollars or 10 dollars there - but I have got to be careful [about saying who they are] because of poor Neil Hamilton. In 1988, Irving argued that the Nazi state was not responsible for the extermination of the Jews in places like Minsk, Kiev and Riga because according to him they were carried out for the most part by "individual gangsters and criminals". Irving's reasoning is that if Cairo was taken by the Israeli Defence Forces, then the Israelis might discover the " rat-line", as undercover smuggling networks for Nazis were known, that had allowed Eichmann to escape to Argentina, and that therefore Eichmann had written his memoirs as a potential defence in the event of being captured by the Israelis. In his works, he argued that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it.Although he is now barred from a whole series of countries, he has continued to give speaking tours — for which he charges hefty sums — in the United States. None of this could be found back in surviving squadron war diaries, reports of casualties and losses nor in the interviews that Middlebrook had with German pilots who participated in the battle. It’s all to do with this phenomenon of people not trusting what they are told by their governments and newspapers. He went so far as to crash the press conference held by Hugh Trevor-Roper at the Hamburg offices of Stern magazine on 25 April 1983 to denounce the diaries as a forgery and Trevor-Roper for endorsing the diaries as genuine. Irving had concluded that the alleged Hitler diaries were a forgery because they had come from the same dealer in Nazi memorabilia from whom Irving had purchased his collection in 1982.