History- David Irving Flashcards
David Irving
A holocaust denier and historian.
Speaks about Jews being
Disliked but doing nothing to change that.
Trivializing (make it less important than it is) the Holocaust
Is a crime in Austria, therefore, Irving was arrested.
Supporters
White males
Interviewer
Max Blumenthal, a Jewish German.
Neo-Nazis principle aim
Is to rehabilitate Hitler’s reputation.
Irving said
‘Hitler’s not anti-Semitic’
‘Hitler tried
To stop what was happening to the Jews. It was the people under him that did it.’
Collusion
Working together for a negative cause (Jews and Blacks for world domination).
Agent said
‘Gas chambers went used to kill people, soaps wasn’t made of Jews’ fat, and skin wasn’t used it make lamp shades.’
Irving said that
He’s not a holocaust denier. This was an evasive answer about whether the Holocaust was real.
Irving speaks about
AIDS being God’s way to kill blacks and homosexuals.
Jews were
Responsible for Auschwitz.
‘Jews are architects
Of their own misfortune.’
Counter-arguments
Evidence: eye-witness accounts, journals (Anne Frank), concentration camps left behind, dead people, Nuremberg Laws, Kristelnacht and Wannsee.