"Denial"
Lies upon Lies, Hollywood style. Lipstadt’s film lies,
#1: Who’s who in “Denial’s” battle for the truth of the Holocaust.
“David [Irving] Irving and his twin brother Nicholas were born in
Essex in 1938, and their father was a naval officer and commander
who served in the Second World War, but did not return to his family
when the war ended.” In fact Cdr. JJC Irving, RNVR, was away fighting
to the end, and helped his youngest son David Irving write The Destruction
of Convoy PQ.17; and he simultaneously helped his father write his eye-
witness history on the Battle of Jutland, the great 1916 naval battle.
Lipstadt was not born until both WWs were over. Lipstadt’s film lies,
#2: The Guardian, Deborah Lipstadt - Interview. "In compressing a five-
year legal battle into a film lasting less than two hours there has,
of course, been some tampering with the chronology” – “The opening scene
depicts the moment in 1994 when Irving gatecrashes one of her university
lectures, waves $1,000 in the air and says he’ll give it to anyone who
can produce written evidence that Hitler ordered the final solution.” Mr.
Irving in fact attended the (public) lecture, accepted the invitation to
ask questions, and offered Deborah Lipstadt $1,000 in cash if she could
now show the students what she had just said she had–
Lie #3 – “a blueprint of a gas chamber complete with the openings through
which the SS tipped the pellets of cyanide.” He actually challenged: “I
have here a thousand dollars for you if you can produce to this audience,
now or at any time in the future, this document about which you have just
lied to them.” His friends videotaped the exchange which is quite different
from the fictitious Hollywood film version.
Lipstadt’s Lie #4 is in the Lipstadt interview: “The 355-page judgment in
April 2000 found that Lipstadt had not libelled Irving.” The British court
hearing the case against Lipstadt found that her trashy book had libelled
Irving in four instances, but allowed her defence in the fifth.
— Jerusalem Post on Movies: The Holocaust on trial – “I hope this movie
inspires some in the audience to read the [Lipstadt] book”. Yes, meanwhile
orders for Hitler’s War have boomed, as people want to find out what really
happened | Movie news: “Denial” ends the year as a financial flop!
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