In April 2000 Mr Justice Gray delivered his unfavorable judgment in the action brought by David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books. In June 2001 Mr Irving applied for permission to appeal, having assembled a formidable document book supporting his arguments that the Judgment was flawed. Permission to appeal was however denied. We reproduce some of the dossiers here.

IndexDavid Olère and his “eye-witness” sketches of life and death at Auschwitz 

• George Vel asks questions about David Olère’s alleged ‘eye-witness’ sketches of Auschwitz | David Hebden suggests that Olère really was at Auschwitz
• and see David Irving’s document book, pp 60 et seq: pdf file
• Oskar Feder offers three further examples of ‘Auschwitz survivor’ Olère’s pictures of life at the camp
• Frank Lowe Jr examines one of the Olère sketches of Auschwitz, and comments on the “doctor” and the “SS Guard” | Philip Matthews challenges Lowe and remarks on the national origins of Auschwitz guards, and of George Stein, a Jew, too | more errors spotted | and yet another error, the wrong Hoheitsadler | Joseph Burgard, with expert knowledge of SS collars and cuffs, dismisses the artwork as pure fantasy
• In this connection: Sept 2007 New York Times reports on one of Israel’s dirty little secrets. In the early 1960s a series of Nazi-porn books called Stalags became best sellers throughout the land