RE: Historians/David Irving
Okay, you crazies got me. Have any of you read what David Irving has written? Or what he actually believes? I never heard of the guy until this thread and it turns out he was a very respected historian for years. The NY Times at one point praised him as this brilliant young historian. He was living the high life in a beautiful residence and was driving a Rolls, all from his research and writing. Much of his work is still taught as fact today.
We are talking about a British guy who moved to Germany to work in a factory as a means of learning the language. He then befriended many of Hitler's friends and relatives and recorded first hand accounts. He procured an amazing amount of documentation, 100s of 1000s of pages, many he originally gave to the German archives.
This is the man who exposed Hitler's diaries as forgeries.
The point? Until he claimed that nobody died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz, he was a real and cutting edge historian, not like all the mainstream historians who for years have just repeated what they have learned from previous generations. The man did his own research, he spent hours interviewing those who were there and he procured and translated the documents themselves that he based his conclusions on.
So, why would a guy that seemed at the top of the world decide to make such a crazy claim? I have no idea, but I sure as hell know that he didn't need to be imprisoned for it.
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I also looked into this Fred Leuchter guy. He never claimed to be a licensed engineer, which is what everyone seems to get stuck on. He was 'a,' if not 'the' leading gas chamber expert in America. He designed them for prisons here in America. His conclusions have been verified by other scientists.
Nothing, as far as I can see that this man claimed, proves the Holocaust didn't happen and anyone who says it does is an idiot.