What is David Irving?
{{Infobox person | name = David Irving | image = David Irving 1.jpg | image_size = | caption = Irving in 2012 | birth_name = David John Cawdell Irving | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1938|3|24}} | birth_place = [[Hutton, Essex]], [[England]] | alma_mater = | occupation = Writer | known_for = [[Holocaust denial]], [[Historical revisionism (negationism)|historical revisionism]], writing on [[World War II]] | spouse = {{marriage|María del Pilar Stuyck<br>|1961|1981|end=div}} | children = 5 | signature = | website = [http://www.fpp.co.uk/ fpp.co.uk] | footnotes = }} '''David John Cawdell Irving''' (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and [[Holocaust denier]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hare |first1=Ivan |last2=Weinstein |first2=James |name-list-style=amp|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6d08lrIYNQC&pg=PA553 |page=553 |title=Extreme Speech and Democracy |location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0199601790}}</ref> He has written on the military and political history of [[World War II]], with a focus on [[Nazi Germany]]. His works include ''[[The Destruction of Dresden]]'' (1963), ''[[Hitler's War]]'' (1977), ''Churchill's War'' (1987) and ''Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich'' (1996). In his works, he argued that [[Adolf Hitler]] did not know of the [[Holocaust|extermination of Jews]] or, if he did, opposed it.<ref>{{Harvnb|Evans|2001|p=101}}.</ref> His works were never taken seriously by mainstream historians. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Irving, David}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Writers from Essex]] {{bio-stub}}