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David Irving

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The Resume

    (March 24, 1938- )
    Wrote ‘The Destruction of Dresden' (1963), ‘The Rise and the Fall of the Luftwaffe' (1973), ‘Hitler's War' (1977), ‘The War Between the Generals' (1981), ‘Churchill's War' (1987) and ‘Nuremburg: The Last Battle' (1996)
    Sentenced to three years imprisonment in Austria for violating laws against denying the Holocaust (February 20, 2006)

Why he might be annoying:

    He claimed that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust.
    He said, ‘There were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.'
    He asked, ‘Given the ruthless efficiency of the Germans, if there was an extermination program to kill all the Jews, how come so many survived?'
    He suggested that parts of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank' had been forged by her father.
    He said that Churchill had ‘sold out the British Empire' to the interests of ‘international Jewry.'
    He called the Holocaust a ‘big lie' and ‘propaganda story' used to cover up an international Jewish conspiracy.
    He sued historian Deborah Lipstadt for libel for calling him a Holocaust denier and lost, with the judge declaring it was ‘incontrovertible that Irving qualifies as a Holocaust denier.' (1998).
    His Holocaust denial resulted in his being banned from Austria, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He described Himmler as a ‘Nazi gangster.'
    The judge in the libel trial wrote that when he sticks to military history, ‘Irving has much to commend him.'
    When he was sentenced to prison, Lipstadt said, ‘I am not happy when censorship wins…. The way of fighting Holocaust deniers is with history and truth.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 116 Votes: 56.03% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 29 Votes: 58.62% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 49 Votes: 51.02% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 21 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 115 Votes: 80.87% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 23 Votes: 82.61% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 61 Votes: 68.85% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 101 Votes: 70.30% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 113 Votes: 76.99% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 106 Votes: 76.42% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 204 Votes: 71.57% Annoying