Denial

Review by Pamela Zoslov

“I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. It's baloney. It's a legend...more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz.”

With incendiary words like these, in a 1991 speech before far-rightists and neo-Nazis, David Irving established himself as one of the world's best-known Holocaust deniers. The author of nearly 30 books, British self-styled historian Irving has made a career of claiming that Hitler knew nothing about the slaughter of six million Jews, that the Final Solution did not occur on a large scale, and that “there is not one shred of evidence” that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz.