In 1989, as cited in "David Irving", Southern Poverty Law Center (undated)
• By the end of the 1980s, Irving had endorsed the pseudo-scientific Leuchter report.
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Until the end of this tragic century there will always be incorrigible historians, statesmen, and publicists who are content to believe, or have no economically viable alternative but to believe, that the Nazis used "gas chambers" at Auschwitz to kill human beings. But it is now up to them to explain to me as an intelligent and critical student of modern history why there is no significant trace of any cyanide compound in the building which they have always identified as the former gas chambers.

— David Irving

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Until the end of this tragic century there will always be incorrigible historians, statesmen, and publicists who are content to believe, or have no economically viable alternative but to believe, that the Nazis used "gas chambers" at Auschwitz to kill human beings. But it is now up to them to explain to me as an intelligent and critical student of modern history why there is no significant trace of any cyanide compound in the building which they have always identified as the former gas chambers." in the context of "In 1989, as cited in "David Irving", Southern Poverty Law Center (undated)
• By the end of the 1980s, Irving had endorsed the pseudo-scientific Leuchter report." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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David Irving

About David Irving

David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is a British writer and Holocaust denier who specialises in the military history of World War II. He is the author of numerous books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).