     david john cawdell irving (born 24 march 1938) is an english holocaust denier and author*"in 1969, after david irving's support for rolf hochhuth, the german playwright who accused winston churchill of murdering the polish wartime leader general sikorski, the daily telegraph issued a memo to all its correspondents. 'it is incorrect,' it said, 'to describe david irving as a historian. in future we should describe him as an author.'"  *"it may seem an absurd semantic dispute to deny the appellation of 'historian' to someone who has written two dozen books or more about historical subjects. but if we mean by historian someone who is concerned to discover the truth about the past, and to give as accurate a representation of it as possible, then irving is not a historian. those in the know, indeed, are accustomed to avoid the term altogether when referring to him and use some circumlocution such as 'historical writer' instead. irving is essentially an ideologue who uses history for his own political purposes; he is not primarily concerned with discovering and interpreting what happened in the past, he is concerned merely to give a selective and tendentious account of it to further his own ideological ends in the present. the true historian's primary concern, however, is with the past. that is why, in the end, irving is not a historian." irving vs. (1) lipstadt and (2) penguin books, expert witness report by richard j. evans fba, professor of modern history, university of cambridge, 2000, chapter 6. *"state prosecutor michael klackl said: 'he
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