When she first encountered David Irving in 1977, she says she was impressed. I was intrigued by his book Hitler's War . My first thought was that it was very good. He is attractive. He does wonderful research and has a talent for writing.
People respect it.
The tragedy is that he has misused these talents. Irving could have made a tremendous addition to knowledge. He brought all this on himself. No one did it to him. He is obsessed with a number of things, his feelings for Hitler and his own feelings about the Jews.