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Tashah said:You just don't seem to get it. Are you that thick? Once again I shall explain for your explicit benefit and also, to further enlighten eveyone reading this thread that David Irving is not an historian but rather... a liar, a cheat, an anti-Semite, a racist, and a flim-flam man.
Irving vrs Lipstadt / Great Britain High Court / 2000
Although the Lipstadt defense proposed to prove to the Court dozens of examples of historical revisionism, ghost sources, and fakery by Irving... Judge Gray settled on 13 specific examples. This block of 13 examples covered every historical book ever written by Irving.
These 13 examples were examined in depth by the Court appointed Historian:
Professor Richard Evans - Modern History Ph.D. - Cambridge
General
His work has dealt with Holocaust denial and the clash of epistemologies when history enters the courtroom. He is currently writing a large-scale history of the Third Reich; volume one, covering the period to July 1933, was published in October 2003, volume two, dealing with the years 1933-39, is scheduled for publication in October 2005, and volume 3, covering the years 1933-45, in September 2007.
Awards
Editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 1998 and a judge of the Wolfson Literary Award for History since 1993. Over the years, his work has won the Wolfson Literary Award for History, the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and the Hamburg Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Birkbeck College, London.
Teaching
He teaches a document-based history of the Third Reich in Part II of the Historical Tripos. He established and directs the one-year M.Phil. in Modern European History, and teaches the core course on 'History and Historians'.
Research
Richard Evans has supervised research in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and comparative history while holding Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia and London, as well as more recently in Cambridge.
Historical Books
• Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (London, 1978)
• Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 (Oxford, 1987)
• Rethinking German History (London, 1987)
• Kneipengespräche im Kaiserreich (Reinbek, 1988)
• In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (New York, 1989)
• Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1700-1987 (Oxford, 1996)
• Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1998)
• In Defence of History (2nd edn. London, 2001)
• Telling Lies About Hitler: History, the Holocaust and the David Irving Trial (London, 2002)
• The Coming of the Third Reich (London, 2003)
Professor Evans was assisted in his Court appointed duties by a prolific team of historical researchers, document analysis specialists, and archive librarians from around the world. He was also assisted in examing the 13 chosen examples by recognized experts in the relevant fields of inquiry. By the beginning of the trial, Professor Evans had assembled 20 linear feet of specific documentation pertinint to the 13 sampled examples in Irvings many publications.
(For the benefit of readers here... prior to the trial, Professor Evans believed the historical work of David Irving to be generally valid, albeit unconventional. It was only after Evans delved deeply into the work of Irving that he realized the stunning truth... Professor Lipstadt was correct in everything she had written about Irving in her book: Denying the Holocaust.)
In the Court testimony of Professor Evans, he proved via documentation that: "Irving is not an Historian but rather... an anti-Semite and racist who manipulates History to serve his hideous agendas". Professor Evans testified that Irving has falsified history in each and all of his historical books.
I highly recommend the 2002 book published by Professor Evans (bolded above) concerning the Irving vrs Lipstadt trial. He is a noted Historian (not Jewish), had no axe to grind, and actually respected Irving before being appointed by the Court to investigate Irving's published historical catalogue.
Professor Lipstadt, Professor Evans, expet witnesses, and historical documentation all contributed to unmask David Irving. He is among the lowest of the low. Judge Gray agreed completely in rendering the verdict.
if you had read clearly my post, Because Like I said Earlier , I already admited that apparently the evidence supports that David Irving is a Bad Historian, but it is Evil to make him suffer because of it, and there are soooo many other bad historians out there that the press just loves and that gain such prestige in the public. And Like I said , just because they were wrongly sourced and bad arguments , doesnt make the Conclusion False.
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