AAARGH
[Judge Gray]: List of issues
in dispute between the parties
1. The issues of identification
and meaning
2. The writings of [David Irving]
and his reputation as an historian
3. [David Irving's] claim
for damages; his concern about the concerted attempt to suppress
his books; his reasons for bringing the action and supporting
evidence
4. The defence of justification
(including in relation to each of issues listed below introductory
or "topic" section, then case for the [The Defendants]
followed by the response of [David Irving])
(i) [The Defendants'] historiographical
criticisms of [David Irving] in regard to:
- a. Hitler trial 1924
- b. Kristallnacht November 1938
- c. aftermath of Kristallnacht
- d. shooting of Jews in the
East
- e. Hitler's views on the Jewish
question
- f. expulsion of the Jews from
Berlin in 1941
- g. the 'Schlegelberger note'
- h. Goebbels' diary entry for
27 March 1942
- i. Himmler minute of 22 September
1942
- j. Himmler's note for his meeting
with Hitler on 10 December 1942
- k. Hitler's meeting with Antonescu
and Horthy in April 1943
- l. deportation and murder of
the Jews in Rome in October 1943
- m. Himmler's speeches on 6th
October 1943, 5 and 24 May 1944
- n. Hitler's speech on 26 May
1944
- o. Ribbentrop's testimony and
evidence from his cell at Nuremberg
- p. Mme Vaillant-Couturier
- q. Kurt Aumeier
(ii) [The Defendants'] allegation
that [David Irving] is "a Hitler partisan" and the extent
of Hitler's knowledge of the solution of the Jewish question
- a. Hitler's anti-Semitism
- b. execution of Jews by shooting
(inc. scale of killings; whether systematic policy and Hitler's
knowledge)
- c. period when deportation
was the policy
- d. genesis of gassing programme
(inc. Hitler's knowledge)
- e. extermination (inc. Operation
Reinhard; camps at Chelmno, Semlin, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka;
scale of extermination and Hitler's knowledge)
(iii) Auschwitz
a. [The Defendants'] case that
mass extermination by gassing
- early reports
- evidence gathered by Soviet
State Commission
- evidence gathered by Polish
Central Commission
- Olere drawings
- eye-witness evidence from camp
officials and employees
- eye-witness evidence from inmates
- evidence from the Nuremberg
trial
- evidence from the Eichmann
trial
- evidence from other trials
(Kremer, Mulka and others, Dejaco and Ertl)
- documentary evidence relating
to the design and construction of the chambers
- photographic evidence
b. [David Irving's] response
- [David Irving's] role at Zündel
trial
- findings of Leuchter report
replication of Leuchter findings
- evidence as to roof of morgue
[Leichenkeller] 1 of crematorium 2 [Krema II]
- camp books
- [David Irving's] reasons for
rejecting evidence relied on by the [The Defendants] (see above)
c. [The Defendants'] reasons
for dismissing Leuchter report and reply to [David Irving]'s case
(iv) whether [David Irving]
is a Holocaust denier
- a. [David Irving's] statements
as to existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and elsewhere (inc.
statements about Leuchter report)
- b [David Irving's] statements
as to existence of systematic policy of extermination
- c. [David Irving's] statements
as to numbers of Jews killed
- d. [David Irving's] statements
that gas chambers are a propaganda lie invented by British intelligence
- e. whether [David Irving's]
statements are consistent with the evidence
(v) whether [David Irving]
is anti-semitic/racist/right-wing extremist
- a. statements made by [David
Irving] which [The Defendants] allege are anti-semitic
- b. statement made by [David
Irving] which [The Defendants] allege are racist
- c. [David Irving's] reasons
for denying charges of anti-Semites and racism
(vi) whether [David Irving]
associates with right-wing extremists
- a. organisations/individuals
with which [David Irving] has associated
- b. political orientation of
those organisations/individuals
(vii) Dresden
- a. claims made by [David Irving]
as to number killed
- b. whether [David Irving] relied
on forged evidence
- c. whether [David Irving] attached
credence to unreliable evidence
- d. whether [David Irving] bent
reliable evidence/falsified statistics!
- e. whether [David Irving] suppressed/failed
to take account of reliable material
- f. whether [David Irving] misrepresented
evidence
-
(viii) Goebbels' Moscow Diaries
- a. whether [David Irving] broke
an agreement with Moscow Archive
- b. whether [David Irving's]
conduct gave rise to significant risk of damage to plates
(ix) [David Irving]'s honesty
as an historian
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