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The defendants will find it very hard to prove it was a Third Reich decision and an Adolf Hitler decision. There were multiple shootings but it was not pursuant to any programme.

— David Irving

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Statements during the David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt libel trial, which Irving lost.

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What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.

I deny that millions died in the gas chambers because of the logistical problems for a start.

I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

I am a Baby Aryan,
Not Jewish or Sectarian.
I have no plans to marry-an
Ape or Rastafarian.

The interesting questions are what did Hitler know, did Himmler conceal it, did he keep it from Hitler, where was the killing done, was it Auschwitz, was it the Reinhard camps and that's what people are frightened to research, because they go to prison for it.

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