Of course aficionados of the Irving-Lipstadt Trial have been clicking their fingers sore trying to stay ahead of the fast-breaking stories. It's been an AVALANCHE of media - and the headlines below are only the tip of the iceberg!
If you need to read the actual articles, go to http://www.fpp.co.uk/ All the articles are linked.
Who was it that said "No Debate!"?
And prefacing the media headlines, David Irving served us another juicy tidbit about his opposition: (The only thing that's missing are a few deftly placed quotation marks...)
Mr Justice Gray rendered his negative judgment at 10.30, Tuesday 11 April 2000 in Court 36 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
From what The Guardian tells us this morning, the money to fund the Lipstadt libel defence came partly from Edgar J Bronfman's Seagram distillery company and two wealthy Atlanta businessmen. Money really can buy a clean conscience. Seagram's legal drug dealing operations (alcohol) have killed many more millions, and destroyed more families, than died in the Nazi Holocaust.
Incidentally, Lipstadt's expert witnesses must have been hard-pressed to stay as neutral as they did, in the face of the inducements offered them.
Stand up Christopher Browning, the only real expert among them: He was paid £27,632 by Professor Lipstadt and Penguin Books Ltd.
His fee was bettered however by team-leader Professor Richard Evans: £70,181 -- what will your common room colleagues make of that, Richard!
Well then, they may say, what about Dr Peter Longerich, who is somewhat junior to yourself: he drew £76,195: that should pay for a few English lessons, eh.
Professor Hajo Funke, the Berlin University's glittering and totally objective expert on the German far right: £92,558 went his way -- what's the German for "Now that's a lot of moolah"?
And then there is Professor of Architecture Robert Jan Van Pelt, who was paid £109,244 despite only one flaw in his background -- he never qualified as an architect. Now how many newspapers reported that little detail emerging from his cross-examination by Mr Irving?
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Worldwide Media Coverage of the Lipstadt Libel Action | Trial news | agency coverage
* Australian Style: Helen Demidenko interviews David Irving (the full article) | Editor defends her from Jewish fury
* Baltimore Sun: Holocaust deniers can't be ignored
* The Washington Post: Historians Fight Battle of the Books
* Die Zeit: Ehrgeiz und Lügen (one of the most objective reports so far)
* Jerusalem Post: Lipstadt: Libel trial strengthened me [Prof. Lipstadt] * Jewish Journal of Los Angeles: Lipstadt to lecture
* The Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia): Theater of the Absurd: Holocaust Denial on Trial in Britain
* Sobran's: Labels and Libels
* Korea Herald: Hitler, History and the Holocaust
* Forward, New York: Isi Leibler seeks reprimand -- Irving's Case Getting Aid from Aussie
* Berliner Morgenpost: Wolfgang Benz on Squabbles among the Holocaust Scholars [in German]
* Forward, New York: Holocaust Seekers Online, a Tangled Web
* La Repubblica: Quando la politica accieca gli storici (in which veteran U.K. Marxist Eric Hobsbawm joins the revisionists) | Commentary by Gad Lerner: Il Paese de Balocchi
* Johannesburg Sunday Times: War Talk
* Celadon: Brandstifter will Biedermann sein
* Neue Zürcher Zeitung: &laqno;Götzen» im Giftschrank - Israelische Reaktionen auf die Eichmann-Memoiren
* Dagens Næringsliv: Judgment on the Holocaust [and original Norwegian text]
* The Observer: What makes a Nazi-lover tick? Jewish Telegraph Agency: Friend of Deborah exits trial believing Irving is one to 'beware'
* Ha'aretz (Israel): 'Holocaust denier showed his anti-Semitism in court'
* Aftenposten (Oslo): The truth about the extermination of the Jews is put to Judgment
* The Courier Mail (Australia): The High Price of Free Speech
* The Times: Irving denies raising glass to Hitler
* Diario (Milan): Mister Irving e Adolf Hitler [in Italian]
* Jewish Telegraph Agency: Could David Irving succeed? World awaits London verdict
* The Sunday Times: A question of history: Why I spoke up for David Irving
* The Observer: The world according to David Irving
* The Guardian: Special Report
* Daily Telegraph: David Irving is a racist and rabid anti-Semite, says QC
* The Independent: Irving 'falsified history on a staggering scale'
* FAZ: Letzte Runde: Im Irving-Prozess schlägt die Stunde der Schlussplädoyers
* Die Welt: Der Showdown
* Berliner Zeitung: Die Verneinung der Verneinung
* Jewish Chronicle: Irving views are 'music to the ears of neo-Nazis' | Irving: 'I aided Shoah research'
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Mein Führer, mein Richter. David Irving fällt ein letztes Wort ein
* The Guardian: Irving: Rabid racist or vilified victim?
* Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm): "Irving falsifies history" [full translation]
* Chicago Tribune: Charges fly near end of Holocaust Libel Trial. Historian Irving called a Liar; he sees a Conspiracy
* Die Tageszeitung (taz) Berlin: Teure Anzüge und billige Behauptungen | Verhandelt wird der Holocaust
* The Times: Holocaust trial about freedom, says Irving
* Die Welt: Vorhang auf für die Schlussrunde
* Chicago Tribune: Trial pits man who denies Holocaust vs. historians
* London Evening Standard: Historian Irving is branded "a rabid anti- semite"
* Jewish Chronicle: 'Jewish fraud' statistics prompt heated exchange | British TV to Show Film of Trial
* The Independent: Holocaust case result will deliver judgement on Irving
* Berliner Morgenpost: Hitlers williger Anwalt
* New York Post: Holocaust can't be denied
* Aftenposten: In the War Room of David Irving
* Frankfurter Rundschau: Lügner, Nazi oder Opfer einer Verschwörung?
* Jewish Telegraph Agency: Irving accused of mocking survivors as London Holocaust suit nears end | London Holocaust trial links the ancient with the Internet
* 'I expect Irving to lose,' writes Doug Collins
* Aargauer Zeitung: "In Birkenau eine Art Vergasung"
* Süddeutsche Zeitung: Zeugen, die aus der Hölle kommen
* The Sunday Telegraph: Only room for disagreement in Irving libel fight
* The Guardian: 'Mockery' of Nazi victims by Irving
* Jewish Chronicle: Skinheads shouted 'Sieg Heil' at Irving meeting
* The Times: Irving challenged over 'cynical anti-Semitism'
* Dagens Nyheter: The Man who denies the Holocaust [Swedish]
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Korrespondenz: David Irving und Michael Naumann [and Mr Irving's protest]
* Toronto Globe & Mail: David Irving holds court on Eichmann
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Der letzte Zeuge: Im Irving-Prozess sind die Befragungen nun abgeschlossen
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Der Wald hat viele Bäume
* Jewish Chronicle: Israel Singer, general secretary of the World Jewish Congress, visits trial, sees only neo-Nazis in court
* The Age: Irving interview under attack [Eichmann]
* The Washington Post: Israel to Release Eichmann Memoirs
* Lipstadt's lawyers ask Israel for Eichmann journals; emergency meeting in Jerusalem
* Prof Deborah Lipstadt's witness statement in full [she did not testify however]
* National Post (Toronto): David Irving v. the dead
* Don Guttenplan's feature article in The Atlantic Monthly, Holocaust on Trial
* Jewish Telegraph Agency: Eichmann again a 'cog,' but to discredit deniers
* The Times: Irving 'was an ally of neo-Nazis'
* Washington Post: Israelis Release Eichmann's Memoirs
* Die Welt: Nach fast 40 Jahren hat Israel die Eichmann-Memoiren freigegeben
* Daily Telegraph: Israel opens Eichmann's diary of evil
* Salon: Hitler's Apologist
* Die Welt: Israels Mut | Eichmanns Tagebücher nicht länger geheim [Irving]
* National Post: Israel agrees to release Eichmann manuscript
* Stuttgarter Zeitung: Israel gibt Adolf Eichmanns Memoiren frei
* Der Spiegel: Eichmann-Memoiren werden veröffentlicht
* The Washington Post: Israel to Release Eichmann Memoirs
* Nando: Israel considers releasing Eichmann journal
* The Age: In denial of evidence
* The Age: Writer tackles Irving trial
* AP: Israel to release Eichmann memoirs to aid in Holocaust denial trial
* ARD TV News: Eichmann-Tagebücher werden freigegeben
* The Age: Irving interview under attack
* Haaretz: Lipstadt's lawyers ask Israel for Eichmann journals; emergency meeting in Jerusalem
* Die Welt: Geschichte verlangt nach Revision - und nach Wahrheit | Die verhandelte Ehre des David Irving
* Süddeutsche Zeitung: Der Wald hat viele Bäume
* The Jewish Chronicle: Irving warned to "mind his tongue" after clashes
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Es knistert: Aus dem Irving-Prozess: Taktische Konzessionen des Klägers [vicious letter]
* The Economist: Irving's last stand
* Salzburger Nachrichten (Austria): Irvings Kampf
* Sydney Jewish News: Holocaust Survivor hired Irving's daughter
* Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports AJC squealing before they are hurt: Holocaust denier seeking shelter in British libel law
* Jewish Chronicle: Angry clashes as witness rejects Holocaust theories
* US News & World Report: Wrestling with the past
* Ha'aretz, Israel: Where are all their holes?
* Evening Standard (London): Auschwitz comes to Court No 73
* CBC Radio interviews Don Guttenplan [text and audio] [Listen in Real Audio.[audio]]
* The Times: Irving 'doesn't deserve to be called a historian'
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ): Alle Zeugen lügen
* FAZ: Guten Tag, Herr Professor
* Die Welt: David Irving oder Wie man alles leugnet...
* The Toronto Sun: Publish and be damned
* The Daily Telegraph: Irving's opinion of Hitler is perverse, claims Keegan
* Globe & Mail says: Libel suits are a refuge for cowards, bullies and scoundrels
* National Post (Toronto): David Irving v. the dead
* The Independent: The Curse of Revisionism
* The Guardian: Court 73 - where history is on trial
* Ha'aretz, Israel: 'I find the Holocaust endlessly boring'
* FAZ: Wer nicht gegen mich ist, der ist für mich
* The Times: England's black cricketers left Irving 'queasy'
* National Post (Toronto): Irving repeats 'denier' accusations on his Web site
* The Times: Diary reveals Irving's ode to Aryans
* FAZ: Nicht einmal Historiker: David Irving setzt in seinem Prozeß gern auf unbelegte Zahlen
* The Daily Telegraph: Irving not anti-Semitic, libel case told
* Profil (Vienna) interviews David Irving
* Neue Zürcher Zeitung attack
* FAZ: Wer nicht gegen mich ist, der ist für mich
* L A Jewish Journal appeals for letters of support to Lipstadt
* Dagbladet, Norway: Stiller spørsmål [Translation: Asking Questions]
* Line One News: Auschwitz Document: 'Shows Genocidal Use', Court told
* Los Angeles Times: Michael Berenbaum on the The Growing Assault on the Truth of Absolute Evil
* Jewish Chronicle: Irving says gas chambers 'not used for killing'
* Die Tücke der Wahrheitsfindung: David Irvings Klage um die Auschwitz-Lüge
* London Jewish News' Vicious Smear -- Calls trial timing "convenient" for Irving
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Der Anzügliche: Vor Gericht: Irving macht Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
* Difficult to counter the deniers, says Goteborgs Posten [Swedish | English]
* The Daily Telegraph: Mayor of Berlin snubs Holocaust ceremony
* No poison supply at Auschwitz, says Irving --Press Association dispatch
* The Times: Auschwitz death chambers 'a moral certainty'
* The Times, Jan 24, 2000: Cyanide was used to kill lice' claims Irving
* Associated Press report, Jan 24, 2000
* Politiken, Copenhagen: "Lies and the Holocaust" [in Danish]
* David Irving nails Andrew Roberts' lie in The Sunday Telegraph
* Madrid's El Mundo has a super-neutral gossip piece by Bernard Henry-Levy
* " ... Next on CNN & TIME, historian David Irving and the Holocaust. Some of his views on the subject may surprise you"
* A statement on the trial by Prof. Robert Faurisson, France
* Tagesspiegel, Berlin: The mediocre monster wasting the High Court's time | [English]
* The Australian Jewish News Newspaper forced to Suppress Lipstadt-Trial Poll Results!
* The Guardian David Cesarani on The Holocaust Industry
* The Times Irving insists that Hitler did not order the Holocaust
* The New York Press Tibor Szamuely on Denial Denial
* In Sydney Morning Herald, Alan Gold writes: "Philosophy of hate has no room for truth " (he coins new word: denialism)
* Atlanta Journal Constitution: Historians' views clash in court
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Die Nazis und ihr Erbsenzähler: Der Irving-Prozess als Strapaze
* Liberation (Paris Irving est un homme dangereux, parce qu'il a du talent
* Chicago Tribune Holocaust Trial opens in London
* The Daily Telegraph Nazi trains carried ample food for Jews, says Irving | Mass gassing of Jews not feasible | Irving 'ready to eat humble pie' over gassing of Jews
* Tampa Tribune prints an ADL letter (See how they squeal!)
* The Times Germans Want Irving to Face Incitement Trial
* The Observer Last battle of Hitler's historians
* Die Welt: Der umstrittene Historiker vor Gericht: Eine Zwischen bilanz der ersten Woche
* Jewish Telegraph Agency Irving says Holocaust 'logistically impossible'
* Stuttgarter Zeitung Germans Ask for Extradition
* Fury and Outrage at Los Angeles Times coverage
* More Fury and Outrage (as above)
* Jerusalem Post coverage of trial
* Jewish Telegraph Agency coverage
* World's Press gives first day massive coverage: [1] [2] [3]
* Mr Irving's Opening Statement, Jan 11, 2000 | Mr Rampton replies for the defence
* Ground penetrating radar used at Treblinka
* A Dr Stone of Oregon University mocks Mr Irving for suing, not taking criticism
* Abraham Foxman(ADL) claimed to be a Holocaust Survivor. But he was never in a concentration camp
* Son of Rudolf Hess writes us about the trial T
* The Times: England's black cricketers left Irving 'queasy'
* Profil (Vienna) interviews David Irving [in German]
* National Post (Toronto): Irving repeats 'denier' accusations on his Web site
* The Daily Telegraph: Irving 'sang racist poem to daughter in her pram'
* The Times: Diary reveals Irving's ode to Aryans
* David Irving calls Professor K MacDonald on January 31 as expert on tactics of Judaism
* Son of Rudolf Hess writes us about the trial
* FAZ: Nicht einmal Historiker: David Irving setzt in seinem Prozeß gern auf unbelegte Zahlen [German]
* The Daily Telegraph: Irving not anti-Semitic, libel case told
* The Washington Times: Neo-Nazis have short memories
* The Independent: The Curse of Revisionism
* Dagbladet, Norway: Stiller spørsmål [Translation: Asking Questions]
* Line One News: Auschwitz Document: 'Shows Genocidal Use', Court told
* London Jewish News' Vicious Smear -- Calls trial timing "convenient" for Irving
* Los Angeles Times: Michael Berenbaum on the The Growing Assault on the Truth of Absolute Evil [or: How to Get Three Cliches into One Headline]
* Jewish Chronicle: Irving says gas chambers 'not used for killing'
* Süddeutsche Zeitung: Die Tücke der Wahrheitsfindung: David Irvings Klage um die Auschwitz-Lüge
* Historian Irving accused of right-wing extremism
* Blair welshes on promise to outlaw Holocaust denial
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Der Anzügliche: Vor Gericht: Irving macht Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
* Difficult to counter the deniers, says Goteborgs Posten [Swedish | English]
* El Pais, Madrid: Los purificadores, bywell known writer Mario Vargas Llosa [in Spanish]
* Atlanta Journal Constitution: Holocaust skeptic admits use of flawed evidence
* The Guardian: Author tells of "massive" proof for gas chambers
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Irving präsentiert einen Zeugen
* Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports at length on the trial
* Atlanta Journal Constitution: Historians' views clash in court
* Britain capitulates to demands for Holocaust Remembrance Day
* David Irving, "das mediokre Monster, das den High Court in London beschäftigt," says Berlin newspaper [English text]
* Australian Jews force Newspaper to Suppress Lipstadt--Trial Poll Results | Australian Jewish News on role of Lipstadt in suppressing Goebbels biography
* David Cesarani on The Holocaust Industry
* The Times: Irving insists that Hitler did not order the Holocaust
* The Chicago Tribune, Sunday: Defender of Hitler Sues Critics -- and puts Holocaust on Trial
* A statement on the trial by Prof. Robert Faurisson [in French][English]
* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Entführung ins Detail: Die Nazis und ihr Erbsenzähler: Der Irving-Prozess als Strapaze in German
* Neue Zürcher Zeitung publishes a vicious attack -
* Tibor Szamuely on Denial Denial
* Irving 'ready to eat humble pie' over gassing of Jews
* Liberation (Paris): Irving est un homme dangereux, parce qu'il a du talent [in French]
* In Alan Gold writes: "Philosophy of hate has no room for truth " (and he coins new word: denialism)
* Nazi trains carried ample food for Jews, says Irving [document]
* Fury and Outrage at Los Angeles Times coverage | More Fury and Outrage
* Jerusalem Post coverage of trial
* Jewish Telegraph Agency coverage
* Der umstrittene Historiker vor Gericht: Eine Zwischen bilanz der ersten Woche
* Prof John Zimmermann objects to Los Angeles Times report | Germar Rudolf responds
* Jewish Telegraph Agency reports: Trial pits revisionist scholar Lipstadt against historian David Irving
* Germans want Irving to Face Incitement Trial
* The Observer: Last battle of Hitler's historians
* British codebreakers intercept Dec 1941 SS police code messages about trainloads of Jews being shipped from Bremen and Berlin to the East -- well provisioned with food etc
* Mass gassing of Jews not feasible, says Irving
* World's Press gives first day massive coverage: [1] [2] [3] Los Angeles Times | The Guardian
* Mr Irving's Opening Statement, Jan 11, 2000
* Mr Rampton replies for the defence
* Blair's judges poised to outlaw fighting funds used to finance libel actions -- too late!
* Irving says Holocaust 'logistically impossible'
* National Public Radio. "All Things Considered."
* Jewish Telegraph Agency: Libel suit against U.S. historian puts the Holocaust itself on trial
* The Sunday Times: Judgment day for the Holocaust historians
* Germans Ask for Extradition of David Irving: Dirty Tricks -- by Whom? [Jan 13: Mr Irving asks Judge Gray to challenge Lipstadt lawyers on oath as to involvement: but their lawyers deny, Irving accepts]
* Who is Funding Professor Lipstadt's Defence? - No Surprises |
* Wiener Library Refuses to provide Historical Evidence for Trial
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Thought for the Day:
"The edifice crumbles not at once, but a brick at a time."
(Sent to the Zundelsite)