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here is scarcely a dull
moment these days in
London's Royal Courts of
Justice, where a Holocaust
revisionist is engaged in a landmark libel
case against a U.S. Holocaust scholar.
The latest twist came when David
Irving announced to the court; just set-
ding in for a protracted three-month
trial, that he was anticipating his arrest
by British police because a German
court is seeking his extradition.
The long-standing warrant for his
arrest, he said, relates to his claim that
thegas chambers at Auschwitz were
not genuine.
Irving cited the extradition as an
example of the "the kind of hatred I
face and the problems I face because
of the repugnant allegations against
me" in Emory University Holocaust
scholar Deborah Lipstadt's 1993 book,
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing
Assault on Truth and Memory, pub-
lished by Penguin Books.
Irving is claiming that references to
him in the book have "blackened" his
name and damaged his career as a
writer and historian by alleging that
he manipulates data to suit his ideo-
logical preferences, labeling him a dis-
torter of history and portraying him as
a Holocaust denier.
The book, he said, had generated
"waves of hatred against me. "
As an example, he showed the
judge a Jan. 12 article from the
German daily Stuttgarter Zeitung,
which reported that a court in nearby
Weinheim had asked the British gov-
ernment to facilitate his extradition.
The extradition request stemmed
from a lecture Irving gave in Weinheim
in which he asserted that the gas cham-
bers at Auschwitz were a fake.
The lecture was given in September
1990. Irving was indicted for racial
incitement in 1996, and extradition
proceedings were launched in 1998.
Irving said no attempt had been
made to serve a warrant against him but,
he declared, the British government had

agreed to cooperate with Germany.
He also conceded that he had been
fined $24,000 and barred from
Germany in 1992 for making the
same statement at a meeting in
Munich, also in 1990.
Earlier, during five hours of testimo-
ny, Irving denied that 6 million Jews
had died in the Holocaust and told the
High Court that it was logistically
impossible for the Nazis to have killed
millions of Jews in gas chambers. He
also said there was no evidence that
Hider had sanctioned a systematic pro-
gram of extermination of the Jews.
Irving, a 62-year-old author of 30
books on World War II, conceded that
the SS might have undertaken gassing
experiments, but he denied that mil-
lions could have been killed in this way.
Asked by lawyer Richard Rampton,
appearing for Lipstadt, whether he
agreed that 6 million had died "in one
of the blackest chapters of 20th centu-
ry history," Irving replied, "A lot of
the numbers are very suspect."
Although Irving conceded that the
Jews had suffered a tragedy, he said "the
people who died were not just Jews but
Gypsies and homosexuals, the people of
Coventry and the people of Hiroshima."
Asked how many innocent Jewish
people he thought the Germans had
killed deliberately, Irving raised the case
of Anne Frank, who died of typhus in
Bergen-Belsen at the age of 15.
"She was a Jew who died in the
Holocaust," he said, "And she wasn't
murdered unless you take it in the
broadest sense."
Of Hitler, Irving said, "There was a
time when he was on the right course,
but he went off the rails. You can't
praise his racial program or penal meth-
ods, but he did pick up his nation out
of the mire after World War I, reunified
and gave it a sense of pride again."
Irving said he ignored Lipstadt's
book until 1996, when he found that
bookstores refused to stock his own
new work, Goebbels: Mastermind of the
Third Reich. ❑

Related editorial: page 33.