about the 1956 revolt in Hungary, which Irving characterised as "primarily an anti-Jewish uprising", supposedly because the Communist regime was itself controlled by Jews. On 30 April 1942, while escorting Convoy QP 11 in the Barents Sea, the ship was badly damaged by the German submarine U-456. Despite acknowledging that the copy of "TB 47" he had used was inaccurate, Irving argued during the late 1980s and 1990s that the death toll at Dresden was much higher than the accepted estimates: in several speeches during this period, he said that 100,000 or more people had been killed in the bombing of Dresden. Mr Irving, who frequently claims his finances are "on a knife edge", said he was only able to pursue a notoriously expensive libel action because of the "4,000 supporters across the world who have contributed to the cause.

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Irving lost the case – and another that he brought against the Observer over a review by Gita Sereny – but speaking from his home in the Scottish Highlands, a 40-room mansion near Nairn provided by an anonymous benefactor, he says that history has “vindicated” him. Irving's depiction of Hungary's Communist regime as a Jewish dictatorship oppressing Gentiles sparked charges of antisemitism. Since at least the 1970s, he has either questioned or denied Hitler's involvement in the Holocaust and whether or not the Nazis had a plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The first was The War Between the Generals, in which Irving offered an account of the Allied High Command on the Western Front in 1944–45, detailing the heated conflicts Irving alleges occurred between the various generals of the various countries and presenting rumours about their private lives. I am already dangerously exposed, and I cannot take the chance of being caught in flak meant for others!Many believe he changed his view because the alleged diaries contained no mention of the Holocaust, thus buttressing Irving's argument in Hitler's War. 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. Irving's reasoning is that if Cairo was taken by the Israeli Defence Forces, then the Israelis might discover the " rat-line", as undercover smuggling networks for Nazis were known, that had allowed Eichmann to escape to Argentina, and that therefore Eichmann had written his memoirs as a potential defence in the event of being captured by the Israelis.

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In a book review published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 18 June 1979, the German historian Andreas Hillgruber for the most part offered a highly unfavorable judgment of Irving's work. Irving had concluded that the alleged Hitler diaries were a forgery because they had come from the same dealer in Nazi memorabilia from whom Irving had purchased his collection in 1982.

After work on the second Zündel trial, Irving declared that based on his exposure to Zündel's and Leuchter's theories that he was now conducting a "one-man intifada" against the idea that there had been a Holocaust. The book did tacitly admit that the Holocaust had actually occurred, a position Irving would later repudiate.

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In an interview with the American journalist Ron Rosenbaum, Irving claimed to have developed sympathies towards them. 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.

I made a great point of tracking down all Hitler's surviving doctors," he told the paper, "and I identified Erwin Giesing as the doctor who treated Hitler after the bomb attempt on his life in 1944. In particular, Irving accused Rommel's friend and Chief of Staff General Hans Speidel of framing Rommel in the attempted coup. Despite his criticism, Hillgruber ended his review with the comment that Irving's work "amounts to an indubitable and in no way small merit of Irving". During the early 1990s, Irving began to associate with the neo-Nazi American group the National Alliance, which sponsored seven Irving lectures between 1995 to 1998.

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In 1963, at the age of 25, Irving published The Destruction of Dresden, which dealt with the Allied bombing raids on the German city and was written at a time when British interest in the raids was high. Irving claimed Hitler only used antisemitism as a political platform, and that after he came to power in 1933 he lost interest in it, while Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis continued to espouse antisemitism. 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. Craig, a leading scholar of German history at Stanford University, wrote about Irving's claim that the Holocaust never took place and his description of Auschwitz as merely "a labor camp with an unfortunately high death rate". There are 220 of my lectures on YouTube, I believe, and these young people tell me how they’ve stayed up all night watching them.The defence is being led by Richard Rampton QC, and Anthony Julius, the solicitor who handled Princess Diana's divorce and the author of a book about the poet TS Eliot's anti-Semitism. Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of Adolf Hitler (pictured). Much of his scholarship was disputed by historians to the point that his standing as a historian was challenged from his earliest publications.