21.09.2010
In connection with numerous questions asked by the journalists and relating to the presence in Poland of David Irving, the Open Republic Association informs that it has notified the Director of the Main Commission for Persecuting Crimes against Polish Nation of the National Memory Institute [IPN], Mr. Dariusz Gabrel, of the fact that David Irving, the British writer and journalist and the author of many historical books, committed a crime set forth in Art. 55 in connection with Art. 3 of the Act on the National Memory Institute. This crime consists in publishing in 2009 in Poland the book “Hitler’s War”, in which David Irving negates Adolf Hitler’s crimes. Our application, published on our web page, contains justification of this thesis. The Open Republic has not yet received any formal response, but it was indirectly expressed by the spokesman of IPN-u, Andrzej Arseniuk, who stated on 17 September 2010 in Alert24.pl service, that “in order to persecute a crime ex officio, it must be committed”. This statement of IPN spokesman proves that he did not read our request and is shocking, because it shows that the Institute, which is supposed to take care of law abiding, refuses not only persecuting Irving, but even examining the facts and grounds of accusations.
Read BBC release about these facts.