Happy Birthday Hitler, love from David Irving
David ‘not a Nazi’ Irving seems to have given up all pretence of being anything but the odious Hitler apologist and acolyte he so obviously is. His ‘tribute’ to Hitler, on the 120th birthday of the Führer – ‘let us never forget’ – can currently be viewed here, or click on the image below:
In his Judgment handed down in the British High Court action by David Irving against Penguin Books Ltd and Deborah Lipstadt (11 April 2000), Mr. Justice Gray stated:
The charges which I have found to be substantially true include the charges that Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-semitic and racist and that he associates with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism.
In the intervening years, it seems Irving has finally given up caring about his image as a ’serious historian’:
