Atkins, Stephen E. (2009). Holocaust Denial as an International Movement. Walport, Connecticut; London, England: Praeger. p.119. ISBN 978-0-313-34538-8. Following the failure of Focus, in September 1983, Irving for the first time attended a conference of the IHR. [72] Van Pelt has argued that, with the failure of Irving's political career, he felt freer to associate with Holocaust deniers. [72] 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 pseudoscientific allegations of neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Friedrich "Fritz" Berg that mass murder using diesel gas fumes at the Operation Reinhard death camps was impossible. [78] At that conference, Irving repeated his claims that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust because he was "so busy being a soldier". [79] In a speech at that conference, Irving stated: "Isn't it right for Tel Aviv to claim now that David Irving is talking nonsense and of course Adolf Hitler must have known about what was going in Auschwitz and Treblinka, and then in the same breath to claim that, of course our beloved Mr. Begin didn't know what was going on in Sabra and Chatilla". [79] During the same speech, Irving proclaimed Hitler to be the "biggest friend the Jews had in the Third Reich". [80] In the same speech, Irving stated that he operated in such a way as to bring himself maximum publicity. Irving stated that: "I have at home... a filing cabinet full of documents which I don't issue all at once. I keep them: I issue them a bit at a time. When I think my name hasn't been in the newspapers for several weeks, well, then I ring them up and I phone them and I say: 'What about this one, then? '" [79]

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In the first edition, Irving's estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100,000 and 250,000 – notably higher than most previously published figures. [28] These figures became widely accepted in many standard reference works. In later editions of the book over the next three decades, he gradually adjusted the figure downwards to 50,000–100,000. [29] According to Richard J. Evans at the 2000 libel trial that Irving brought against Deborah Lipstadt, Irving based his estimates of the dead of Dresden on the word of one individual who provided no supporting documentation, used a document forged by the Nazis, and described one witness who was a urologist as Dresden's Deputy Chief Medical Officer. The doctor later complained about being misidentified by Irving, and further, that he, the doctor, was only repeating rumours about the death toll. [30] According to an investigation by Dresden City Council in 2008, casualties at Dresden were estimated as 22,700–25,000 dead. [31] His opponents claim he is being bankrolled by rightwing extremists, mainly from America. Mr Irving denied that he had been funded by members of the Ku Klux Klan, although he did have their details on his database. "They are clearly marked, warning KKK," he said.

He claims that "as a reputable historian with some ground-breaking work behind me I should be enabled to use an element of scepticism in my work without being accused of being a Holocaust denier". The non-jury case will be heard before Mr Justice Charles Gray, a distinguished former libel barrister, and is expected to last at least three months. Mr Irving is also suing the historian Gita Sereny over a review in the Observer of his book about Joseph Goebbels, which claimed he rather than Hitler was the brains behind the Holocaust. Lipstadt, Deborah (1993). Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-02-919235-8.

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David Irving commented that he had not been told that the festival was going to present him as a liar, [177] and that he was preparing a lecture about the real history of what took place in Norway during World War II, contrary to what official historians have presented. Irving stated that he had thought the Norwegian people to be made of tougher stuff. [179]The Leuchter report, was, indeed, an amateurish report produced by a man with no expertise, either historical or forensic." Hirsh, David. Law Against Genocide. Routledge Cavendish, 2003, p. 134. Irving subsequently appealed to the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal. On 20 July 2001, his application for appeal was denied by Lords Justices Pill, Mantell and Buxton. [149] [150] Mink, András (2000). "David Irving and the 1956 Revolution". Hungarian Quarterly. 41 (160): 117–128.

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Irving was portrayed by John Castle in courtroom dramatizations of the Lipstadt case for the PBS Nova episode "Holocaust on Trial" (2000). [196] Irving told the court today he had revised his opinion after seeing the personal files of Adolf Eichmann. Speaking in German, he told the court he now accepted that the Nazis had killed millions of Jews.Main article: Hitler's War In Hitler's War, Irving used a 1942 memorandum by Hans Lammers (pictured), the Chief of the Reich Chancellery, to the Justice Minister, saying: "The Führer has repeatedly pronounced that he wants the solution of the Jewish Question put off until after the war is over."