The Wages of Apostasy:
The Journal of Historical Review
Thank you, United States, for letting me come and speak. I mean that
seriously because the fight is now getting quite creepy. For two years
now, in country after country, I have been conducting this international
Campaign for Real History. During this period, in country after country,
I've come up against an international campaign AGAINST real history--an
international campaign full of lies, an international campaign to suppress
the truth. The truth of this campaign is quite clearly something that I
had previously not wanted to believe: there is, in fact, an international
force out there with an influence that transcends frontiers. Day after
day, country after country, month after month, I come up against this
international force.
In my apartment in London, I've accordingly opened a file titled "Jewish
Harassment." this should not be taken to mean, in the slightest, that I am
anti-Jewish, because I'm not. The fact that many Jews are anti-
Irving does
not mean to say that I am anti-Jewish. There's no paradox in that
statement. Week after week, month after month, they are causing me immense
harassment, embarrassment and distress. But journalists come to me, again
and again, and ask me: "Mr. Irving, are you anti-Semitic?" And I reply,
"Not yet."
For two years now, I have been the target of this worldwide campaign--in
Germany, France, Spain, South Africa, the United States, Canada, Argentina,
Brazil, and England. Let me tell you a little about what has been
happening in some of these countries.
In Germany, I'm now technically a prohibited person. I can't go there
because the German authorities have ordained that
David Irving shall no
longer cross their frontier. A free democracy, and yet that's the only way
they can fight against me: by forbidding me to come in. That edict was
issued in March 1990. But since then, I've been in and out of Germany 60
times. I'm not going to tell you how I've done it--but there are ways of
doing it.
In Austria, there's an arrest warrant out against me, but no entry
prohibition (whereas in Germany there's the entry prohibition but no arrest
warrant). So between the two of them you can find a way of getting in. As
I said to the Germans the last time I spoke to a mass meeting of 7,000
people in Passau: there are enough people here in plain clothes taking
notes for the Ministry of the Interior, and tonight they'll be asked: how
did he get in again? To this I can only say: "Go ask your colleagues in
Austria how
David Irving got in this time."
Besides Germany and Austria, officially I am not permitted to get into
Italy or South Africa. Last January and February, I spoke for two months
in South Africa, this time visiting 15 towns and cities. Two weeks after I
returned to England, a letter arrived from the South African government in
Pretoria. It told me: "
Mr. Irving, as an Englishman you normally do not
require a visa to enter South African territories. For you we are going to
make an exception." I reported this ban to the South African newspapers,
which discovered in a matter of days that this unique embargo was being
placed on me by the South African Jewish organizations. This was followed
by an outcry by other South Africans who wanted to hear me on radio and
television, and in person. It was another encroachment on freedom of
speech.
Of course, I am able to come and speak here in the United States because
you have something very important, your First Amendment guaranteeing
freedom of speech. It is very unlikely, I think, that the United States
government would actually stoop to trying to prevent me from coming here to
speak. It would be a very, very serious day indeed if that should happen.
In Canada, I have a big speaking tour lined up that is due to start on
October the 26th. Yesterday, here in this very hotel [in Irvine,
California], I was handed an express letter from the Canadian government
informing me that I would not be allowed to enter Canada. Once again,
pressure has been exerted by these international groups to keep me from
speaking. In this case it was the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,
but the reason given me was this: "
Mr. Irving, under the immigration act, a
person is not permitted to enter if he has committed a criminal offense in
another country, or if he is likely to commit a criminal offense in Canada.
We may consider you likely to commit a criminal offense."
After receiving this, I straight away instructed my attorney in Canada
to point out that I've been to Canada some 30 times since 1965, and not
once have I committed a criminal offense. So, PRIMA FACIE, I am unlikely
to commit a criminal offense on the 31st occasion. [On October 26,
Irving
legally entered Canada.
He was illegally arrested--after lecturing on
freedom of speech--at Victoria, B.C., and deported on November 13 after a
three week court battle. He is appealing.]
In June of this year, I went to Italy. I arrived in Rome, after a stop
in Munich, from Moscow, where I had been working for two weeks in the
former Soviet government's secret state archives. As I got off the plane
in Rome, six Carabinieri police cars were waiting for me at the airfield,
and as I got into the airport bus, the police stormed the bus, rifles
drawn, and called out my name, "
Mr. Irving." Ladies and gentlemen, now
that's EMBARRASSING! Under the circumstances, I tried to make it look as
if this was my VIP escort!
They held me there in the police station at Rome's airport for four
hours until the plane turned round and flew back to Munich. And half way
through, they let in the Italian student who had arrived to meet me there.
(I had been invited by a university professor.)
During the police interrogation, I "hadn't understood" a word of
Italian, and I made them speak English to me. But when the students came
in, I spoke with them in Italian, explaining how sorry I was. Seeing this,
the police colonel became very indignant and said: "SILENZIO, Don't Speak."
So I said, "Where does it say that I can't speak?" He repeated: "Silenzio,
Don't-a speaka." And I repeated: "Excuse me, but nowhere do I see a sign
that says Silenzio." At that, he seized a thick felt-tip pen, and in a
blind, Italian temper he went to the magnificently painted wall inside this
beautiful, brand new police station, saying "You can't-a see-a? Here!,"
and wrote the letters S I L E N Z I O on the wall, and then shouted:
"SILENZIO!"
Last October [1991], I spoke in Argentina. On the morning of the first
day, I took part in a two-hour television program. (I also speak Spanish.)
I was on with a man named Maurizio Maro, but whose real name turned out to
be Goldfarb. If only they had told me beforehand! But too late.
Goldfarb asked me questions like: "But Adolf Hitler, he was crazy wasn't
he?" And I said: "No, he wasn't." "But of course he was crazy," he
retorted. I responded by saying:
There's no evidence for that at all. The evidence is that we--the
British and Americans--captured seven of Hitler's doctors. We
interrogated all seven of them on that specific point: Hitler's own
physicians were asked if they considered him clinically sane or out of
his mind. All of them came to the conclusion that, even until the very
last moments of his life, he was totally sane. And not only that, I
have personally found Hitler's medical diaries--the diaries kept by his
doctor, Theodor Morrell, which I found in the archives in Washington,
DC. After transcribing them, I published them. These diaries also
confirm, without a doubt at all, that Hitler was perfectly sane and
physically normal.
[Continued]
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Life Under Fire
Vol. 13, Number 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993)
Banned in South Africa
Detention in Rome