FREE SPEECH AND HISTORY | DAVID IRVING | (GEORGE ORWELL FREE SPEECH AWARD: RECIPIENT -1992)

Repost: 18 April 2024 | David Irving(👉 https://twitter.com/irving_books ) | Mr. Irving received the George Orwell Free Speech Award from the Canadian Free Speech League in 1992 for his contributions to historical inquiry and free speech.
Irving discusses the obstacles and governmental opposition he faces due to his controversial views on history, specifically World War II and the Holocaust.
He highlights various bans and legal challenges he encountered in countries like Canada, Germany, and Austria, emphasizing his dedication to expressing unpopular opinions and conducting
Irving also compares his situation to historical instances of suppression of speech and criticizes the efforts to silence him. The script concludes with Irving's arrest in Canada following his speech, sparking debates on free speech rights versus promoting harmful historical narratives.

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Outline:
00:00 Opening Remarks and Award Presentation
01:04 David Irving's Controversial Entry into Canada
02:35 Irving's Legal Battles & Views on History
15:11 Reflections on Free Speech and Historical Inquiry
15:50 Personal Anecdotes & the Fight for 'Real History'
23:16 Irving's Encounters with Censorship & the Media
31:03 Uncovering Nazi Secrets: The Discovery of Glass Plates
31:18 Controversial Deal with the Sunday Times
32:15 Outrage & Backlash: The Fallout of Publication
34:03 The Battle for Historical Truth
34:51 Self-Publishing as a Strategy Against Censorship
40:40 The Global Fight for Free Speech
50:18 Legal Battles and Deportation: A Personal Account

About David Irving: (Note: Taken from (👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving ) but we all know it is edited and censored for the benefit of a certain tribe...)

David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a UK court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case.
Irving's 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 extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it. Though Irving's negationist claims and views of German war crimes in World War II (and Hitler's responsibility for them) were never taken seriously by mainstream historians, he was once recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents, which he held closely but stated were fully supportive of his conclusions. His 1964 book The Mare's Nest about Germany's V-weapons campaign of 1944-45 was praised for its deep research but criticized for minimizing Nazi slave labor programs.
By the late 1980s, Irving had placed himself outside the mainstream of the study of history and had begun to turn from "'soft-core' to 'hard-core' Holocaust denial", possibly influenced by the 1988 trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. That trial, and his reading of the pseudoscientific Leuchter report, led him to openly espouse Holocaust denial, specifically denying that Jews were murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Irving's reputation as a historian was further discredited in 2000, when, in the course of an unsuccessful libel case he filed against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, High Court Judge Charles Gray determined in his ruling that Irving willfully misrepresented historical evidence to promote Holocaust denial and whitewash the Nazis, a view shared by many prominent historians. The English court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, and racist, who "for his ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence". In addition, the court found that Irving's books had distorted the history of Hitler's role in the Holocaust to depict Hitler in a favorable light.

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