Mr Irving's Trial Diary

Jul. 20, 2000 ACTION REPORT 1 July 20, 2000 AR#17 DISTRIBUTED FOR THE INFORMATION OF DONORS TO THE FUND InIn thisthis issue:issue: • On Jan. 11, 2000 the Trial of the Century Began in Britain’s historic High Court • On Mar. 15 David Irving and Defence Counsel make dramatic Closing Speeches • On Apr. 11 Judge Gray hands down his scathing Judgment ... and the next stage begins • Read these dramas here in A Radical’s Diary:- Spielberg, Bronfman, AJC gave Six Million Dollars to the Lipstadt Liars BY DAVID IRVING ROUND TWO TO GO TO January 9, 2000 LL DAY TODAY, SUN- day, on final pre- parations. Head UK COURT OF APPEAL swimming. At 2:45 Into Battle ... Astonishing Post-Trial Revelations in U.K. Press p.m. a phone call Afrom The Daily Express: The LONDON – Author David Irving is to challenge the unfavour- German government is asking able Judgment handed down in the British High Court in his for my extradition. “Is this the defamation action against Atlanta scholar Deborah Lipstadt first you have heard of it?” the and her UK publishers, Penguin Books Ltd. The two-month journalist asks. “Yes,” I say. “If trial was followed with intense curiosity by the international that’s the quote you want, – ‘It is www.fpp.co.uk/online.html media, but in the words of Mr. Irving cast more noise than the first I have heard of it’.” for regular updates on Because of a speech I made in Sept. the libel appeals and illumination on one of the greater mysteries of World War II. 1990! views on the other news Many journalists commented on tism are not alleged in the Lipstadt I sarcastically point out that (a) the the courtroom spectacle as Mr. Irv- book (which Penguin admitted was Germans will have to get a move ing battled single-handed against enjoying “negative sales” – more on, as the “crime” expires after A letter from David thirty leading lawyers and experts. returns than sales), the defence ten years; and (b) I have lived at Lipstadt herself is Jewish, and dragged these topics in to distract Irving to his supporters this same address for 32 years, has written extensively attacking from arguments on the Holocaust, Jews who marry outside their own the death figures, Adolf Hitler’s per- with the same phone number, My Dear Friends: race and religion; but while most of sonal involvement, and the exact and they know where to find me. Round One is behind us. the Six Million Dollars used to fight nature of the Auschwitz death camp. As the Polish government agreed Mr. Irving came from Steven Mr. Irving scored several direct in 1995 that what I said in 1990 We fought hard, relying on Spielberg, Edgar J Bronfman Jr., hits during the action. Lipstadt’s is true, I am astonished, I say, naked intellect and the and the American Jewish Commit- chief architectural witness admitted that the German government is truth. The enemies of free tee (as the press revealed), the De- he was an unqualified, unregistered “still trying to brazen it out.” fence team, led by star attorney charlatan who would be arrested if When he asks, “Do you still de- speech used money . we Anthony Julius, went to great pains he stepped outside the courtroom had no idea, until the very scribe yourself as a ‘fascist’,” I to preserve a “non-Jewish” image. and called himself an “architect”. say: “I really am very busy, good- Julius even had a Black paralegal This witness was also forced to last day, just how much bye,” and hang up. Twerp! sit briefly in the well of the court, admit that the Auschwitz gas cham- was being poured in, to after Mr. Irving made a withering ber story rested on a handful of six Six p.m., Jessica and I walk a bun- enable the witnesses to attack on Defence Counsel Richard “eye witnesses” who saw SS offic- dle of documents (on Hamas, testify in the way they Rampton for having a wholly White ers pour cyanide pellets through four etc.) down to [Penguin Books team while accusing him of “rac- large holes in the roof. There are Ltd’s lawyers] Davenport, Lyons. did. The Judge did his job ism” (Mr Irving has often employed 10,000 survivors, Mr. Irving pointed Work on revising my opening state- conscientiously, but in a minorities as his personal staff). out, but only these six are ever ment until two a.m. Courtroom awash with Although racism and anti-Semi- Court PAGE 13 Diary PAGE 2 torrents of dirty money I believe he found it We still counsel). Her publisher Penguin Books Ltd urgently THE LIPSTADT CASE difficult to separate the also decided not to venture onto the witness need sup- stand. History from the Histri- port to She is now touring the world at , a onics. The press left the carry on Putting their Money the fight pop, addressing audiences in Los Angeles, Judge in no doubt of his through Chicago, Miami, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere, fate if Judgment went the Court on the Table on how she single-handedly “slew the against Deborah Lipstadt of Appeal. dragon.” And good luck to her, I say; I hear by David Irving she’s complaining about three months’ loss and her publisher — Use the en- velope pro- IN MY British High Court libel action of income, though Emory University, it neither of whom had the vided, or against her, Emory University professor seems, gave her three months’ paid leave of courage to testify. You will mail to Deborah Lipstadt “took the Fifth”. While I absence for the trial, during which she lived in a luxury London hotel. see from my Trial Diary P O Box offered myself for cross examination, and something of the nature of 1707, was put through the hoops by Britain’s Of course, nobody pays me for the three Key West, most fearsome and highly paid (fee: years I lost preparing the trial. the battle.— Which FL 33041 ,) counsel for three weeks, she I had no choice, given that Lipstadt’s continues...! easiest of all, ducked out of testifying on the witness allies had for ten times as long spearheaded go online at David Irving, www.fpp.co.uk/ stand, even though she would have had help only me facing her (I could not afford London Money BACK PAGE 2 ACTION REPORT Jul.20, 2000 The Defamers Penguin Books the KGB archives in Moscow); David Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd and managing director and author n Prof Deborah Lipstadt Deborah Lipstadt, right, arrive at the courtroom effort primarily on restat- High Court on Day 1, Jan. 11, 2000 ing in exhaustive, tedious and confus- ing detail the historical Under the new Civil Procedure Rules in the calls the “Holocaust de- U.K. each of the parties provides to the Court record, as it is known a 500-word summary of the issues. This was niers”, an odious phrase today, on the persecu- David Irving’s Summary. which she herself claims to tion of the Jews by the have coined; until thus in- Nazis and their collabo- structed by those paying her, rators. , Prof. Lipstadt had not even author of about thirty works of history, mentioned Mr. Irving in her What is known today (most of which is not published by respected mainstream UK completed book. The First and international publishers since , Defendants published the and has never been dis- puted by the Plaintiff) is and accorded the widest attention in work. the popular and serious press. He has not however what is at The work attacks the Plain- issue in this part of these been called one of the most widely read tiff both ad hominem and as an histo- historians in the English language. His proceedings: the issue here is solely rian, depicting him as a neo Nazi who whether the Defendants (upon whom books are widely quoted as references has knowingly distorted and manipu- by others including HM Government’s the burden of proving their pleaded lated the historical record in pursuit of defence of justification lies) can show official historians. Until about he a political agenda. had access to every country in the world that the Plaintiff manipulated histori- and their archives, including the former The collateral attempt by the Defend- cal evidence i.e. what matters is what communist countries. ants to blacken further the name of the the Plaintiff knew at the time, yet wil- Plaintiff, while risky in itself, is one fully and perversely disregarded in pur- Disaffected by his findings, various which is permitted for the purposes of suit of his alleged agenda. British and international organisations, mitigation of damages only, and can be primarily of the Jewish communities, The Plaintiff will resist any attempt to dealt with readily by the normal proce- use the court room to refight World began in the to make overt and dures of court. covert attempts to destroy the plain- War II, or to rewrite the history of that tiff’s career by robbing him and his It is appears however, from the De- war. The issues are those pleaded in the works of their legitimacy. They also fendants’ pleadings, that they: statement of claim, which is already secretly sought to have him physically n wide enough. n barred from other countries and their libels which they, but not the Plaintiff, archives. The Second Defendant [Prof. regard as lesser (e.g., the allegation Lipstadt] made herself the willing ex- that the Plaintiff consorted with Louis Penguin Books later complained to the press about the ecutioner of this campaign, accepting a Farrakhan and the Hizbollah terrorist millions of pounds they spent to defend themselves in this action.

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