David irving how many jews died

Mr Irving 62 , who is representing himself, is suing Prof Lipstadt and Penguin Books for claiming he is a "Hitler partisan" who has skewed history, questioned whether six million Jews were killed by the Nazis and whether the gas chambers existed. During two hours in the witness-box, marked by Mr Irving's continued disagreement with Mr Rampton's use of the phrase "the Holocaust" and its meaning as a publicly-recognised description of the mass murder of Jews, the writer argued it was "logically impossible" that millions of Jews were killed in gas chambers.

Referring to an interview he gave in Calgary in , Mr Irving agreed with Mr Rampton that he had said: "The biggest lie of the lot. Mr Rampton asked which elements of "the lie" - the factories, the gas chambers and the millions - he denied. One million people weighed , tonnes and would present a "major logistical problem" to the Nazis, Mr Irving said.

He denied millions of Jews were killed in gas chambers. Asked whether he accepted the Nazis killed millions of Jews by means other than gassing, disease, starvation or slave labour, Mr Irving said: "Whether it was in the order of millions or not, I would hesitate to specify.

Yes, perhaps more than one million. Less than four million. Mr Rampton later turned to a report prepared for Hitler on the murder of partisans and Russian Jews on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa in Irving was jailed in Austria in , but in began running tours of death camps and World War II sites, to the dismay of many Jewish community groups and Holocaust memorial organizations who have accused him of re-writing history and insulting the memory of Holocaust victims.

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Terms Of Service. Privacy Policy. Subscriber Agreement. JPost Jobs. Cancel Subscription. Customer Service. The Jerusalem Post Group. I recall him as a more intimidating presence, especially when I encountered him for the first time, marching down the dark corridor of his Mayfair flat. His Danish partner Bente Hogh had opened the front door and, as she was making a cup of tea, we chatted in her - and my mother's - language. Mr Irving overheard and came to see what was happening. I explained I was half-Danish and he paused to look me up and down, taking in my dark hair and eyes.

And then, perfectly polite, he invited me to his study where we could talk. In Denial, the lawyers and Prof Lipstadt travel to Auschwitz for research. They see the glass-fronted cases full of suitcases and shoes in Auschwitz I, property of murdered Jews from across Western Europe. Outside in the the freezing Polish winter, they walk round the huge second site at Birkenau, down the steps into the remains of a demolished gas chamber. Later, Richard Rampton QC is shown angry that there has not been a full detailed scientific study of the whole site, to remove all possibility of doubt.

At that time, the late s, Auschwitz was often in the news because there was international concern about the site and its upkeep. The post-Communist government wanted to build better relations with Jewish communities worldwide, so the president took personal responsibility for Auschwitz improvement. One way and another, often with survivors, I had visited the site many times.

Although Mr Irving put Auschwitz at the centre of his case, he had never been there himself. In the quiet of his study, as soon as I brought out the microphone, Mr Irving spoke energetically and confidently. In the film, Prof Lipstadt is angry that eyewitnesses, Auschwitz survivors, are not called to give evidence. Written testimony was employed by the defence instead. Mr Irving had been confident he had demolished these accounts.

He told me: "They produced only five eyewitnesses and it's always the same five eyewitnesses,". I pointed out that there were scores of living eyewitnesses and that I had met them myself.