In April 2000 a High Court judge branded the writer David Irving a
racist, an antisemite, a Holocaust denier, and a falsifier of
history. Irving's attempt to silence his critics by means of a
libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was
decisively rejected in a judgement later confirmed by the Court of
Appeal. Faced with mountainous costs to pay, Irving was declared
bankrupt on 5 March 2002. None of this has stopped him continuing
to try to prevent the publication of books that expose him as a
manipulator of historical documents and a Holocaust denier.
The key expert witness against Irving was the Cambridge
historian Richard J. Evans, a specialist on modern German history
and author of In Defence of History. Although Evans's report was
upheld in all its major points by the High Court, Irving's threats
of legal action have intimidated a series of publishers.
Now Verso brings you the book in full. Evans describes how he
came to be involved in the case, and reflects on the interaction of
historical and legal rules of evidence. He recounts his discovery
of how Irving falsified the documentary evidence on the Second
World War, and demonstrates his connections with far-right
Holocaust deniers in the United States.
Evans argues that the trial does for the twenty-first century
what the Eichmann trial did for the second half of the twentieth.
It vindicated history's ability to come to reasoned conclusions on
the basis of a careful examination of the evidence, even when
eyewitnesses and survivors are no longer around to tell the
tale.
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