Lying about Hitler

By Richard J. Evans,

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In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did.…

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This is not only one of the best books I’ve read this year but one of the best books I have ever read. Originally published in 2001, this book provides an invaluable case study of why words and truth matter so much—perhaps now more than ever.

Even if you thought you knew this story through the 2016 film Denial about the libel suit Holocaust-denier David Irving brought in England against Deborah Lipstadt, an American expert on the Holocaust, this book will keep you enthralled and in suspense as the story unfolds.

Reading this book by renowned European historian Richard Evans,…

Another great hit in Evans’ long series of books about Nazism, this is a very particular one: Evans was invited to take part as an expert in a trial for defamation brought by a British historian, David Irving, long suspected of being a tad too friendly towards the Nazi regime. This 2002 book recounts the trial and focuses on Evans decisive role: he went through Irving’s voluminous, and meticulous, books, finding misleading interpretations favoring the Nazi view of controversial events in World War II and, very particularly, views minimizing the scale of the Holocaust and Hitler’s role in it. This…

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