Ирвинг против Липштадт David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust
Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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1.6 Argument and structure of the Report 1.6.1 Very soon after
we had begun our examination of Irving's work along the lines
sketched out above, it became clear that Irving did all of these
things. Penetrating beneath the confident surface of his prose
quickly revealed a mass of distortion and manipulation in every
issue we tackled that was so tangled that detailing it sometimes
took up many more words than had been devoted to it in Irving's
original account. Unpicking the eleven-page narrative of the
anti-Jewish pogrom of the so-called Reichskristallnacht in
Irving's book Goebbels: Mastermind of the 'Third Reich' and
tracing back every part of it to the documentation on which it
purports to rest takes up over seventy pages of the present
Report. A similar knotted web of distortions, suppressions and
manipulations became evid