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Excerpts
from High Court Judge Charles Gray's ruling in the David
Irving libel suit
Tuesday April 11, 2000
(emphasis added)

It is my conclusion that
no objective, fair-minded historian would
have serious cause to doubt that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz
and that they were
operated on a substantial scale to kill hundreds
of thousands of Jews.
It appears to me to be incontrovertible that Irving qualifies as a
Holocaust denier. Not only has he denied the existence of gas
chambers at Auschwitz and asserted that no Jew was gassed there,
he
has done so on frequent occasions and sometimes in the most offensive
terms. By way of examples, I cite his story of the Jew climbing into
a mobile telephone box-cum-gas chamber; his claim that more people
died in the back of Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than died in the
gas chambers at Auschwitz; his dismissal of the eyewitnesses en masse
as liars or suffering from a mental problem ... I reject as being
untrue the claim made by Irving in his evidence that in his denial of
the existence of any gas chambers at Auschwitz, he was referring
solely to the gas chamber constructed by the Poles after the war for
the benefit of visitors to the site or, as Irving put it, as
a 'tourist attraction.'
Having grossly underestimated the number who lost their lives in the
camps, Irving is prone to claim that a greater number than that were
killed in Allied bombing raids on Dresden and elsewhere. He has,
moreover, repeatedly claimed that the British Psychological War
Executive ingeniously discovered the lies that the Nazis were killing
Jews in gas chambers in order to use it as propaganda.
Irving is anti-Semitic. His words are directed against Jews,
either
individually or collectively, in the sense that they are by turn
hostile, critical, offensive and derisory in their references to
Semitic people, their characteristics and appearances ... Irving has
made claims that the Jews deserve to be disliked; that they brought
the Holocaust on themselves. He speaks regularly at political or
quasi-political meetings in Germany, the United States, Canada and
the New World. The content of his speeches and interviews often
displays a distinctly pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish bias. He makes
surprising and often unfounded assertions about the Nazi regime which
tend to exonerate the Nazis for the appalling atrocities which they
inflicted on the Jews. He is content to mix with neo-facists and
appears to share many of their racist and anti-Semitic prejudices.
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.
Fritjof
Meyer, bless you!
Because
of your work Justice Grey has to revise his judgment - in time.
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