Holocaust Historian David Irving Released From Prison: First Interview From The Outside

Everybody has crossroads in their lives where they have the alternative of taking the right-hand fork or the left-hand fork. There have been several such forks in my life, and I've always taken the right track. But, looking back I can see turnings that I shouldn't have taken. However, when I started to write my Hitler book, it was the most important turning I took. It was back in 1964 when I decided to write the biography of Adolf Hitler.

I decided to write that biography the way I've written all my books, which is based entirely on original, primary sources. If you write from primary sources, then you are bound to come up with a different picture and a different perspective than historians who just copy what other historians have written.

In certain respects, it has become very difficult to write Real History. I call it Real History with a capital 'R,' and it's difficult to write Real History because there is legislation against it in different countries. The legislation is different in the different countries, but it always has the same purpose. In France, for example, the legislation makes it a criminal offense to dispute the history that was laid down in the Nuremburg trial in 1945. In Germany, the law is called Defaming the Memory of the Dead, and in Austria, the law is called The Reactivation of the Nazi Party. The general effect is to make it very difficult to write Real History about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust has been chiseled in stone, and anybody who wants to have a closer look at that stone is running the risk of being sentenced.