The Case of David Irving Shows that
Nothing Is More Dangerous than Telling the Truth
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The Case of David Irving Shows that Nothing Is More
Dangerous than Telling the Truth
Paul Craig Roberts
David Irving is undoubtedly the best historian of
World War II. For decades he relentlessly searched for and found
diaries of the main figures, pried loose official documents, tracked down
witnesses, searched the war archives of many countries, all of which is the
material of his extraordinary histories.
The facts differed from the official narratives. Jews
took umbrage and ruined him financially, forcing his publisher to destroy their
printings of his histories, which were best-sellers praised by other
historians, and by bringing corrupt law suits against which he had to defend,
which exhausted his financial resources and left him penniless and homeless.
He managed to keep going with proceeds from his
well-attended lectures whose locations had to be kept secret to prevent Jews
from having thugs break up the gatherings. Eventually Jews
were able to get some governments to ban him from the country in order to block
his lectures. Invited to speak in Austria, he was falsely arrested and
imprisoned. The stress of his life has resulted in a stroke that has disabled
him.
You might imagine from my account that Irving wrote
against Jews. But that is not the case. He documented the slaughter
of several hundred thousand Jews by German political functionaries in conquered
parts of Russia. He got in trouble with the Jews because he reported
that his 50-year search of the world’s war archives, including the Soviet and
Israeli archives, failed to turn up a single document supporting the existence
of an organized holocaust. He offered a monetary award to anyone who could help
him find evidence of an organized holocaust. None did.
Irving makes it clear that Jews suffered persecution
under the Nazis. Hitler’s position, stated repeatedly by Hitler was
that the “Jewish question” would be settled after the war. Initially
Hitler’s plan was to settle the Jews in Madagascar. After his initial victories
against the Soviet Union, he talked of sending the Jews to their Bolshevik
friends in the rump part of Russia that he intended to leave to Stalin.
The massacres of Jews seem to have been the ad hoc
actions of political administrators of conquered Soviet territory who found
themselves recipients of Jews sent by functionaries in anticipation of them
being forwarded to the part of the Soviet Union that was to remain. Not having
any means of holding them the territorial administrators shot them.
This seems to be the holocaust story that is real, but
instead of debating it and trying to prove it wrong, the Jews attacked Irving
personally.
It is important to understand that Irving did not set
out to disprove the holocaust. He set out to gather the facts about
the causes of the war and the behavior of the participants in order to write a
factual history instead of a self-justifying one written by the victors. The
holocaust occupies only a few lines in Irving’s massive work.
Irving’s third volume of his study of Churchill is completed
and needs to be published. The family is exhausted of resources, and
publishers are too afraid of the Jews to sign a contract and advance money.
Consequently a work of a decade might be lost, and Irving’s health left
unattended from lack of resources.
Truth is the most important value. Without
it there can be no justice, no freedom, no scholarship, and no science. David
Irving has been the greatest truth-teller of our time, and the consequence is
his ruin.
When we think of what has happened to David Irving, to
Julian Assange, and to what may yet befall Tucker Carlson, we can safely
conclude that in the Western world today nothing is more dangerous than to tell
the truth.
Here is the statement from his family:
Last October, after arriving in Florida, David Irving
fell ill and has been in declining health ever since. He is now back in the UK
and requires round-the-clock care, a demand we’ve had to arrange privately due
to constraints with NHS services. He was hospitalised for nearly two months,
enduring the kind of challenges we never anticipated he would face.
It is with sadness that we must accept that David is
now unable to engage in his life’s work. His unwavering dedication to unveiling
Real History has not only defined his career but also enriched the minds of
readers worldwide. David’s situation, however, has placed us at a crossroads
where the path forward demands collective support.
This is an appeal to safeguard the essence of a man
whose life’s work has been to bring us closer to the nuanced truths of our
past. Your donations will be pivotal in two primary areas:
Medical Care and Support: Your contributions will
ensure that David receives exemplary care to manage his condition and uphold
the highest quality of life.
Preservation and Continuation of His Work: Financial
support is also imperative to safeguard David’s extensive body of work.
To participate in this crucial effort please donate.
Here, you’ll find all the necessary information to make your
contribution. https://irvingbooks.com/donate/
Regardless of size, every contribution is a step
towards sustaining David’s impact on historical literature.
Your support and solidarity in this challenging time
are invaluable. We will keep you informed of his health and well-being as
he faces this stage of his life with dignity. He is in good hands.
David Irving’s family
https://irvingbooks.com/blog/support-david-irving/
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