responsible quarters that his book contained libels on Captain
Broome ... To make [the book] a success he was ready to risk
libel actions ... Documentary evidence .... showed that [Irving]
had deliberately set out to attack Captain Broome and in spite
of the most explicit warnings persisted in his attack because it
would help sell the book." The court labeled Irving's conduct
as "outrageous and shocking."
Irving's misrepresentations did not end with the publication of
his book.
According to Cesarani, in 1979, a German publisher had to
pay compensation to the father of Anne Frank after printing the
German edition of Irving's book, Hitler's War.
Irving had claimed that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery.
Irving claims that according to his "research", the Holocaust is
greatly exaggerated.
(He was recently quoted in the K-W Record as saying that the
number of Jews who died in concentration camps was "of the
order of 100,000 or more.") But during the 1988 trial of
pro-Nazi publisher Ernst Zundel, he was forced to admit under
cross-examination that he hadn't even read all of Eichmann's
1960 trial testimony.
(In this testimony, Eichmann admitted that Nazi leaders
discussed the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish
problem''-- extermination, in 1942.) In November 1991, a
reporter from the Independent showed that Irving omitted
crucial lines from a translation of Goebbels' diaries -- lines that
would have contradicted his theory that Hitler knew nothing
about the extermination of the Jews.
Irving's record is clear: he is not an historian, and he has
made false statements and been forced to apologize for them.
As Andrew Cohen, reporter for the Financial Post, has said,
"David Irving should be denied credibility."
4. Eustace Mullins
According to analyst Chip Berlet of Political Research
Associates, Mullins is quite simply, "the most vicious
anti-Semite on the face of the planet." Eustace Clarence
Mullins, born in 1923, is the author of a biography of Ezra
Pound (a copy exists in the University of Waterloo library). But
he is also the author of numerous truly bizarre tracts published
by small Christian publishers. Some of these, like the excerpt
recently posted and then removed by Kitchener store owner
Rothe, are critiques of the banking system. Berlet says,
"Mullins masks his anti-Semitism with a critique of the [U.S.]
Federal Reserve System." In a 1952 book, Mullins wrote a
book blaming Paul Warburg, Bernard Baruch, and other U.S.
Jews for drowning Americans in debt.
According to Mullins, The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 put the
nation's banking reserves in the hands of the "Jewish
International Bankers" for the purpose of carrying out a plan