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had deliberately set out to attack Captain Broome and in spite

of the most explicit warnings persisted in his attack because it

would help sell the book." The court labeled Irving's conduct

as "outrageous and shocking."

Irving's misrepresentations did not end with the publication of

his book. According to Cesarani, in 1979 a German publisher

had to pay compensation to the father of Anne Frank after

printing the German edition of Irving's book, Hitler's War. Irving

had claimed that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery.

* Correct as written. Without consulting me, the

Ullstein Verlag publishing firm, part of the

pro-Israeli Axel Springer Group) made some

unspecified payment to Otto Frank at his demand. I

had already halted production and publication of

the book for other reasons (tampering by Ullstein

with my text). The German Bundeskriminalamt

found that parts of the diary had been written in

(post-war) ballpoint ink-paste, which made its

authenticity problematic. My opinion on it now is

ambivalent: it is unimportant, not a historical

document of any value.

Irving claims that according to his "research", the Holocaust is

greatly exaggerated.

* Correct. I think the figures have been magnified

by an Order of Magnitude. Events in Auschwitz

alone suggest that I am right:: here the figure has

been effortlessly brought down from 4 million to 1

million, and now to even less.

(He was recently quoted in the K-W Record as saying that the

number of Jews who died in concentration camps was "of the

order of 100,000 or more.")

* Incorrect. Do you really believe all the

newspapers say? I may have said "killed", not

"died".

But during the 1988 trial of pro-Nazi publisher Ernst Zundel,

he was forced to admit under cross-examination that he hadn't

even read all of Eichmann's 1960 trial testimony. (In this

testimony, Eichmann admitted that Nazi leaders discussed

the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish

problem"--extermination, in 1942.)

* Incorrect. I have Eichmann's manuscript

memoirs, given to me in Buenos Aires in

November 1991. He states that to him Final

Solution always meant the Madagascar Solution.

Anyway, do you really want to base your case on

the utterances of a Nazi war criminal?

In November 1991, a reporter from The Independent showed

that Irving omitted crucial lines from a translation of Goebbels'

diaries--lines that would have contradicted his theory that

Hitler knew nothing about the extermination of the Jews.

* Incorrect. Which "crucial lines" am I supposed to

have omitted?

Irving's record is clear: he is not an historian, and he has

made false statements and been forced to apologize for them.

As Andrew Cohen, reporter for the Financial Post, has said,

"David Irving should be denied credibility."

* Well, that really wants to make me hang up my

shingle: namely, that a shyster from a money-rag

doesn't believe me. What a waste of kilobytes,

when there are megabytes of reputable historians

saying precisely the opposite about me.

Yours sincerely,

David Irving

Focal Point Publications

Professor Jeffrey Shallit

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department

University of Waterloo,

Waterloo, Ontario

Canada

The following is the full text of the article by Mr. Shallit that Mr.

Irving quotes in the preceding letter.

LIES OF OUR TIMES

by Jeffrey Shallit

How the Words of the Holocaust Deniers and Their Allies

Show Them For What They Are

1. Background

Canada has a long tradition of tolerance and multiculturalism.

That's why many residents of the K-W area were shocked and

saddened to learn that a stereo store on King Street in

Kitchener was displaying posters advertising a talk by David

Irving, a self-described historian who says that the estimates

of six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II are

greatly exaggerated. Inside the store, according to the K-W

Record, one can find for sale a book by Fred Leuchter that

claims that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were never used

for mass killing. After local protests, the store owner retaliated

by putting up posters about the banking system based on the

writings of anti-Semite Eustace Mullins. Subsequently, these

posters were taken down by the store owner, but one explicitly

anti-Semitic flyer still remains. The Kitchener-Waterloo

Record recently carried a letter to the editor by Paul Fromm,

director of "Canadian Association for Free Expression, Inc.".

This letter defended neo-Nazi publisher Ernst Zundel, saying,

"Zundel was dragged through the courts for nine years ...

MERELY for his UNPOPULAR views." [emphasis mine]

Who are Michael Rothe, David Irving, Fred Leuchter, Eustace

Mullins, and Paul Fromm, and what do they stand for?

2. Michael Rothe

Michael Rothe is the owner of European Sound Imports, at

109 King Street W. in Kitchener. According to the K-W Record,

he is a native of southern Germany, who came to Canada

eight years ago. His stereo store might appear harmless on

the outside, but on the inside, one can obtain anti-Semitic

propaganda from a variety of sources. According to the

Record, in addition to the book by Fred Leuchter mentioned