David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected

Description

58 pages
Contains Bibliography, Index
$6.95
ISBN 0-914539-08-6
DDC 940.53'18'0722

Year

1993

Contributor

Translated by H. David Kirk
Reviewed by J.L. Granatstein

J.L. Granatstein is a history professor at York University and co-author
of the Dictionary of Canadian Military History and Shadows of War, Faces
of Peace: Canada’s Peacekeepers.

Review

This is a curious little book. Included are two newspaper articles
(1977–78) by German historian Eberhard Jдckel that refute quite
convincingly the revisionist interpretations of the Holocaust presented
by British historian David Irving. Jдckel does a good job of
confronting Irving’s slippery use of documentation, but newspaper
articles do not ever allow the full presentation of detail necessary for
convincing demolition. Still, those unfamiliar with the antirevisionist
argument may find the book useful. There is also a foreword by Robert
Fulford and a commentary by translator H. David Kirk.

Citation

Jäckel, Eberhard., “David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed February 10, 2025, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/12500.