“What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.”

— David Irving

Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_irving_20061223.ram

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British writer and Holocaust denier 1938

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