Thursday, September 30, 2010



David Irving stirring the pot again



He enjoys the publicity
"Controversial British historian David Irving praised Adolf Hitler as 'a great man' and his Gestapo as 'fabulous policeman' on his shocking tour of former Nazi death camps in Poland.

Irving said Hitler was not 'immoral' but was let down by lesser people in the Nazi regime, according to an undercover report by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. 'Hitler could be very cruel but he was not immoral. He was just surrounded by "little" people,' the paper said Irving told those on a £1,500-a-head tour he has been hosting.

Irving, who was once jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, also told tourists that the German dictator should be compared to Hannibal, the leader of Carthage that fought against and who almost overpowered Rome. The historian said: 'He was like Hannibal. He held the military forces of the rest of the world for six years. Exactly like Hannibal, but nobody has never denied the greatness of Hannibal. 'Hitler was a great man, one of the greatest Europeans for centuries.'

He added: 'The Gestapo were fabulous policemen. They sent 300,000 to Auschwitz and 800,000 to Treblinka.'

His comments will be studied closely by Polish authorities and are sure to infuriate Holocaust survivors.

Source

He's pretty safe in Poland. Poles almost seem to have an antisemitic gene in them -- so praise for Hitler is something that they tend to understand.

Irving gives free speech protections a pretty good test wherever he goes. He is what Australians call a "stirrer": Someone who is deliberately provocative in order to get a reaction -- a reaction that amuses the stirrer.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The GeStaPo was certainly efficient, which can be called "great".

But yes, this is just a typical leftist anti-Semite like so many others in Britain, Germany, France, and Poland.

Bobby said...

"He added: 'The Gestapo were fabulous policemen. They sent 300,000 to Auschwitz and 800,000 to Treblinka.'"

---And how is that great? Gee, I thought great policeman solved crimes and shoot the bad guys, rounding up people doesn't seem to take much skill.

The best thing to do about David Irving is to ignore him. He wants to talk crap, that's fine with me. Lot's of people talk crap and I simply tune them out.

TheOldMan said...

I don't know why the left is so upset. They rant on and on about diversity... This dimwit isn't inciting or advocating violence, he is just opening his mouth to prove that he is a nutcase.

Anonymous said...

He can say what he wants. His reputation is zero with me, and I won't read his books or support him in anyway. People are free to be stupid if they believe what he has to say.

Anonymous said...

In 8th grade Composition class we took a test and there was an extra credit section where we were to write about the most influential person of the century and explain why we thought that. I wrote that Adolf Hitler was the most influential person because without him WWII may have never happened and the world would be a completely different place today(Mid 1990's). I made sure I didnt in any way suggest that was he did was good, just "influential". I didnt get any credit for it because the teacher thought it was not an "appropriate subject". I complained to the principal and he agreed with me. I got an A+(110%) on that in the end.

Anonymous said...

Hasn't this idiot been committed to aged care yet? Surely the UK government could find two consenting doctors to put him away?