Fwd: Irving

Grant White ulgw at dewey.newcastle.edu.au
Wed Mar 27 20:10:06 CST 1996


Yep that's right,
He was actually refused entry to Australia 18 months or so ago becaused 
of his hateful reconstructions. Scary thing is though, that he has his 
followers and more and more people are accepting his ideas.

Grant

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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:

> By the way, I have heard several reports that Irvine is now a
> 
> `Holocaust revisionist' arguing that the number of Jews exterminated
> 
> in the death camps is far lower than the millions usually claimed and
> 
> I think also reported to have downplayed the involvement of many of
> 
> those implicated in the war crimes and their intention to exterminate
> 
> all Jews. I have no idea whether this is an accurate report of his
> 
> views. Does anyone else have the scoop.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> Irving's new book is about Goebbels (St. Martin's Press I think-the only 
> publisher who would publish-In the UK it's being published under Irving's 
> own imprint-not too sure what an "imprint" is?) and most of the reviews 
> I've read call it reprehensible-One of the reviewers claims Irving has 
> dubbed himself a "closet fascist", sympathizing with the Nazis but 
> criticizing their overzealousness.  I remember reading _Hitler's War_ and 
> didn't Irving claim Hitler knew less about the Holocaust and/or didn't 
> actually order extermination, concentration camps, etc.?!  Amazing these 
> goofballs are still around.  
> 
> 
> 
> Rich
> 
> NYC
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> 
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> 



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