{"id":68670,"date":"2019-03-20T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68670"},"modified":"2019-03-20T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:43:24","slug":"27-05-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=68670","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Denier David Irving Promoting Guided of Nazi Death Camp Sites, in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Holocaust Denier David Irving Promoting New Guided Tour of Nazi Death Camp Sites, Hitler\u2019s HQ in Poland<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Holocaust denier David Irving speaks to journalists in Warsaw during a 2010 visit to death camps and other World War II sites in Poland. Photo: Reuters \/ Kacper Pempel.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The notorious British Holocaust denier David Irving has announced that he will lead a tour of Nazi death and concentration camp sites in Poland later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 81-year-old Irving advertised the tour on his personal website over the weekend. \u201cThe 2019 tour starts on September 1 from Warsaw, Poland, and ends back there on September 9,\u201d Irving wrote. \u201cIt includes the bunker headquarters of Adolf Hitler (\u2018The Wolf\u2019s Lair\u2019), SS chief Heinrich Himmler (\u2018Hochwald\u2019), and the German Army high command, and the sinister Operation Reinhardt sites (Treblinka, Sobib\u00f3r, Belzec, Majdanek).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since his reputation as a historian was destroyed by his failed libel action in the British High Court against the American scholar Deborah Lipstadt in 2000, Irving has supplemented his income with World War II-related historical tours in Europe, as well as sales of his reissued books and occasional speaking tours of the US. According to his website, Irving\u2019s next American tour is scheduled for the spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Denial of the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews is illegal in Poland \u2014 where the September tour takes place \u2014 under legislation dating back to 1998. Treblinka, Sobib\u00f3r, Belzec and Majdanek were Nazi death camps that became operational from the middle of 1942, as the German regime stepped up the extermination of the Jews through its \u201cOperation Reinhardt.\u201d About 1.7 million Jews perished in the Operation Reinhardt camps, the majority in purpose-built gas chambers, along with an unknown number of Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.<\/span><\/p>\n

By his own admission, Irving and his groups have behaved disruptively and provocatively on previous similar tours. A journal kept by Irving on his 2011 tour contained repeated references to the antics of Hugo Haig-Thomas, his personal assistant. Standing outside a gas chamber at the Majdanek camp, Irving related that \u201cHugo H-T says rather blasphemously, \u2018If I were a prisoner, I think I\u2019d ask for the window seat.’\u201d Another entry recounted Haig-Thomas playing the \u201cHorst Wessel Lied,\u201d the Nazi party\u2019s anthem, on the piano in the bar of the hotel where the group was staying.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irving himself proudly confessed to having disrupted a school student\u2019s tour of Majdanek while on the same visit. \u201cThe guide delivers a brief and impassionate (sic) account of the horrors which occurred in this \u2018gas chamber,’\u201d Irving wrote. \u201cI suggest loudly that \u2018skepticism\u2019 is called for, and she is stunned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Irving went on to say that teacher had made \u201csome retort\u201d to his uncalled-for intervention. However, \u201cunable to speak Polish,\u201d he continued, \u201cI reply in Russian, which is much the same: Not possible. She gathers up her flock and sweeps out clucking indignantly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nazi Holocaust Denier David Irving is planning to act as a tour guide taking visitors to sites of extermination camps at Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor & Majdanek.<\/div>\n
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