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“Der SPIEGEL wird seinen neuen Autor im Auge behalten: Während sein Bericht in diesem Heft beginnt, reist Irving schon wieder durch Deutschland, um Material für eine neue Dokumentation zusammenzutragen”
Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine, in 1965
“. . . a British historian, David Irving, perhaps the greatest living authority on the Nazi era . . .” Stephen Spender, New York Times Review of Books [full text]
“SUCH PEOPLE AS David Irving have an indispensable part in the historical enterprise, and we dare not disregard their views.” Professor Gordon C Craig, The New York Review of Books, September 19, 1996.
“ES IST EIN GLÜCK für uns . . . einen Irving zu haben, der den Historikern zumindest neue Anstöße gibt.” Professor Hans Mommsen, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, 1978: now see his panic! Charakterschweine gibt es ja überall.
“FOR BETTER or for worse . . . the best known historians of the Nazi era are now [Daniel] Goldhagen and the British writer David Irving.”– Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 11, no. 3 (Oxford University Press, in association with U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Alphabetical site index (text) |
David Irving: Index Page
Torpedo Running, a 1985 biographical brochure.
[ Now on-online ]

Two-page leaflet (140k)

David Irving hosted a farewell dinner at the Hilton Chicago before returning to Windsor, UK

David Irving talks on the campus of Harvard University
David Irving speaking in Phoenix, Arizona |
David Irving in Person:
- Family ancestry: biographies of father, grandfather, etc
- An Index of Personal Things
- Draft unpublished memoirs, chapters of
- Some copyright-free high resolution photos of David Irving
- Reminscences by friends of David Irving at Brentwood School, 1947-1956
- At London University 1956-59, becomes a writer | A contemporary recalls
- May 1959: The Carnival Times scandal | or 50 years on: David Irving, Apartheid and ULU | front page | orgies artoon | apartheid cartoon
- 1956-1959 documents: Applies for RAF officers’ commission, Linguist Course, refused on alleged medical grounds (pdf file, 12MB)
- How Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine, praised its newcomer author David Irving in 1965 (in German)
- David Irving: Information for Counsel on my Background (1970)
- 1970: Susan Barnes (wife of Rt.Hon.Anthony Crosland, MP) writes a positive multi-page profile for The Sunday Times, September 1970: “Portrait of a Gentleman”
- Late in 1977 the Institut für Zeitgeschichte director Prof Dr Martin Broszat publishes a virulent 37-page attack on David Irving’s biography, Hitler’s War, in their quarterly journal (pdf, in German); they refused to publish a reply
- Canadian Globe & Mail newspaper published a warm view of Mr Irving’s talents as an historian and biographer — in 1979
- The Spectator interviews Benté Hogh: “Sleeping with the Enemy”
- July 1982: Stunning blonde in the life of Hitler apologist David Irving
- A balanced account of David Irving’s historical career written by an Israeli Institute (we do not endorse all its findings of course): “From Revisionism to Holocaust Denial – David Irving as a Case Study,” by Roni Stauber of the Steven Roth Institute for Racism and anti-Semitism, Tel Aviv University. Dated evidently in 1990s.
- A less balanced account, a smear sheet on David Irving issued by the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai Brith in New York, 2004
Torpedo Running. A 1985 biographical brochure about Mr Irving (and his 1983 role in exposing the Fake Hitler Diaries scandal)
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