Since you place my integrity in question, I will respond. You did if fact state that Irving is a bona-fide historian and implied that his Holocaust denial theme has legitimate historical working points.
Category: International Politics
Thread: International Jewish Banking Conspiracy
Post: #177
(Bold emphasis above added by me)
In his verdict rendered in 2000 in the High Court of Great Britain in the libel case Irving vrs Lipstadt/Penguin Books, Judge Charles Gray found Irving to be a falsifier of history, an historical revisionist, a Hitler apologist, an anti-Semite, a racist, and a neo-Nazi supporter.
You next attempted to excuse Irving as merely a 'bad Historian'. If an Historian does indeed do sloppy work, then the errors will be random throughout his work and tend to both deny and support any particular thesis. This is not the case with Irving. All of his errors were purposeful... and calculated to exculpate Hitler and cast doubt on the dimensions of the Holocaust. The Court found that all of Irvings historical works contained omissions, misquotes, hidden footnote references, invented passages, and ghost-sources for the explicit intent to falsify history.