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Irving claimed that the Holocaust was not the work of Nazi leaders, but rather of " nameless criminals ", and furthermore claimed that " these men killed the Jews acted on their own impulse, their own initiative, within the general atmosphere of brutality created by the Second World War, in which of course Allied bombings played a part.
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Extremely modest about his singing abilities ( he frequently claimed that he could not sing, but the critics rated him as among the finest ), Astaire introduced some of the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, in particular, Cole Porter's: " Night and Day " in Gay Divorce ( 1932 ), Irving Berlin's " Isn't This a Lovely Day?
In the latter book, Irving claimed that the plane crash which killed Polish government in exile leader General Władysław Sikorski in 1943 was really an assassination ordered by Winston Churchill, so as to enable Churchill to betray Poland to the Soviet Union.
Irving in an interview with Ron Rosenbaum called his work an act of " stone-cleaning " in which Irving removed the " slime " which Irving claimed had been applied to Hitler's reputation.
In an interview with the American journalist Ron Rosenbaum, Irving claimed to have developed sympathies towards them.
Irving's intention in Hitler's War to clean away the " years of grime and discoloration from the facade of a silent and forbidding monument " to reveal the real Hitler, whose reputation Irving claimed had been slandered by historians.
He also claimed that Hitler had no knowledge of the Holocaust ; while not denying its occurrence, Irving claimed that Heinrich Himmler and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich were its originators and architects.
At a press conference held to withdraw his endorsement of the diaries, Irving proudly claimed that he was the first to call them a forgery, to which a reporter replied that he was also the last to call them genuine.
At the conference, Irving did not deny the Holocaust, but did appear happy to share the stage with Robert Faurisson and Judge Wilhelm Stäglich, and claimed to be impressed with the allegations of Friedrich Berg that mass murder via diesel gas fumes at the Operation Reinhard death camps was impossible.
In a June 1992 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Irving claimed to have heard from Hitler's naval adjutant that the Führer had told him that he could not marry because Germany was " his bride ".
Irving then claimed to have asked the naval adjutant when Hitler made that remark, and upon hearing that the date was 24 March 1938, Irving stated in response " Herr Admiral, at that moment I was being born ".
" In another 1986 speech, this time in Atlanta, Irving claimed that " historians have a blindness when it comes to the Holocaust because like Tay-Sachs disease it is a Jewish disease which causes blindness ".
Subsequently, Irving claimed to the American journalist D. D.
As to what evidence further led Irving to believe that the Holocaust never occurred, he cited the Leuchter report by self-styled execution expert Fred A. Leuchter, which claimed there was no evidence for the existence of homicidal gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In addition, Irving was influenced to embrace Holocaust denial by the American historian Arno J. Mayer's 1988 book Why Did the Heavens Not Darken ?, which did not deny the Holocaust, but claimed that most of those who died at Auschwitz were killed by disease ; Irving saw in Mayer's book an apparent confirmation of Leuchter's and Zündel's theories about no mass murder at Auschwitz.
Finally, Irving claimed " the survivors of Auschwitz are themselves testimony to the absence of an extermination programme ".
In January 1990, Irving gave a speech in Moers where he asserted that only 30, 000 people died at Auschwitz between 1940 – 45, all of natural causes, which was equal — so he claimed — to the typical death toll from one Bomber Command raid on German cities.
Irving claimed that there were no gas chambers at the death camp, stating that the existing remains were " mock-ups built by the Poles ".
Irving went on to call the Auschwitz death camp a " tourist attraction " whose origins Irving claimed went back to an " ingenious plan " devised by the British Psychological Warfare Executive in 1942 to spread anti-German propaganda that it was the policy of the German state to be " using ' gas chambers ' to kill millions of Jews and other undesirables ".
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Moreover, when the discredited author David Irving lost his English libel case against Deborah Lipstadt, and her publisher, Penguin Books, and thus was publicly identified as a Holocaust denier, the trial judge, Justice Charles Gray, concluded that:
On 20 February 2006, Irving was found guilty, and sentenced to three years imprisonment for Holocaust denial, under Austria's 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism and criminalising the " public denial, belittling or justification of National Socialist crimes ".
He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his insinuation of Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews in the 1963 play The Deputy and his 2005 defense of Holocaust denier David Irving.
The play partially drew on the work of a young British author David Irving, who later became notorious as a Holocaust denier.
The English court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, and racist, who " associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism ", and that he had " for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence ".
Irving made much of the lack of any written order from Hitler ordering the Holocaust, and for decades afterward offered to pay £ 1000 to anyone who could find such an order.
Irving downplayed Göring's role in the Holocaust, describing instead Göring's jovial personality and offering a wealth of lesser-known facts about his life.
They admired Irving for the pro-Nazi slant in his work and the fact that he possessed a degree of mainstream credibility that they lacked, but were annoyed that he did not openly deny the Holocaust.
In 1980, Lucy Dawidowicz noted that although Hitler's War was strongly sympathetic to the Third Reich, because Irving argued that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust as opposed to denying the Holocaust, that his book was not part of the " anti-Semitic canon ".
Robert Jan van Pelt suggests that the major reason for Irving wishing to keep his distance from Holocaust deniers in the early 1980s was his desire to found his own political party called Focus.
At that conference, Irving repeated his claims that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust because he was " so busy being a soldier ".
In a 1986 speech in Australia Irving argued that photographs of Holocaust survivors and dead taken in the spring of 1945 by Allied soldiers were proof that the Allies were responsible for the Holocaust, not the Germans.
Irving was a frequent speaker for the DVU in the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the relationship ended in 1993 apparently because of concerns by the DVU that Irving's espousal of Holocaust denial might lead to the DVU being banned.
In 1986, Irving visited Toronto, where he was met at the airport by Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel.
As a result, Irving and Zündel become friends, and Irving agreed in late 1987 to testify for Zündel at his second trial for denying the Holocaust.
In addition, the publication in 1987 of the book Der europäische Bürgerkrieg 1917 – 1945 by Ernst Nolte, in which Nolte strongly implied that maybe Holocaust deniers were on to something, encouraged Irving to become more open in associating with Zündel.
In January 1988, Irving travelled to Toronto, Canada to assist Douglas Christie, the defence lawyer for Ernst Zündel at his second trial for denying the Holocaust.
Irving argued that an alleged expert on gassings like Leuchter could prove that the Holocaust was a " myth ".
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Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.
Astoria ( 1835 ), written while Irving was Astor's guest, cemented the importance of the region in the American psyche .< ref > In his Introduction to the rambling work, Irving reports that Astor explicitly " expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprize
Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.
The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.
Consulting and design engineer Phil Irving ( of Vincent Motorcycle fame ) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine.
The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".
Just outside the city of Dallas, the stadium was located in Irving, Texas.
The roof's worn paint had become so unsightly in the early 2000s that it was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving.
After Cowboys Stadium was opened in 2009, the Cowboys turned over the facility to the City of Irving.
In 1989, Exxon announced that it was moving its headquarters and around 300 employees from Manhattan, New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas.
He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.
According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.
In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.
The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.
George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.
During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an " objective historian " in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of " the man on the Clapham omnibus ".
This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.
Schneider proposed this, because, in her opinion, Irving could have passed the standard Daubert tests unless a court was given " a great deal of assistance from historians ".
The new Houston team was named the Colt. 45s after a " Name The Team " contest was won by William Irving Neder.
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