Wednesday, September 2, 2015

UK: Holocaust-denying historian David Irving organises 'disgusting' £2,000-a-head holiday tours of former concentration camps and Hitler's HQ

The Daily Mail reports:

Holocaust-denying historian David Irving organises 'disgusting' £2,000-a-head holiday tours of former concentration camps and Hitler's HQ so people can 'make up their own mind about the truth'

Leaflet: Irving posted this document online to promote the forthcoming tour of Poland

  • EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced historian is taking tour group to Poland next month
  • He will show them the 'Wolf's Lair' fortress and four concentration camps
  • Charities accuse Irving, 77, of 'insulting the memory of Holocaust victims'
  • A leading historian says it 'cannot be right' for the tours to go ahead
  • Irving has been jailed for Holocaust denial and admits to fascist views
  •  Read more.

    US historian Deborah Lipstadt's prediction as to how this will evolve
    :

    David Irving is advertising his trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Here's my prediction as to how this will evolve:
    1. He announces trip (already has).
    2. Gets a media buzz (already has).
    3. Social media picks it up (in process).
    4. Museum at Auschwitz Birkenau announces he is not welcome to come.
    5. Irving portrays himself as the victim of censorship.
    6. He goes anyway with a few loyal stalwarts.
    7. He makes sure to announce the date and time of his arrival at the camps.
    8. Media awaits him. Auschwitz Museum officials tell him he can't come in.
    9. In full view of the media he proclaims himself the victim.
    10. He gets invitations to speak at universities about the need for free speech and removal of censorship (this from a man who offered to settle with me if I trashed and pulped all the extant copies of my book... I didn't... he went to court... he lost). NOTE: He's already been to the Oxford Union to speak on the topic so they probably won't invite him back. But there are lots of other venues for him.

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