David irving himmler biography examples

Critical responses to British author and Holocaust denierDavid Irving have changed dramatically as Irving, a writer on the subject of World War II and Nazism, changed his own public political views; further, there are doubts as to how far Irving applies the historical method.

This article documents some of these critical responses over the course of his writing career.

Overview

Irving was once held in regard for his expert knowledge of German military archives. Much of his scholarship was disputed by historians to the point that his standing as a historian was challenged from his earliest publications.^[1]

Beginning in the s, Irving began to claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had neither ordered the extermination of the Jews nor known about the Holocaust.^[2] Contentious in large part for advancing interpretations of the war considered favourable to the German side and for association with far-right groups that advanced