The Board of Deputies of British Jews is so critical of Irving that they have engaged in secret, and sometimes barely legal, or even illegal, activities to get him banned in several countries. He has discovered and disclosed to historians and others many documents, which, but for his efforts, might have remained unnoticed for years. I accept the favorable assessment of Professor Watt and Sir John Keegan of the caliber of Irving s military history and reject as too sweeping the negative assessment of Professor Evans. With 21 lawyers and unlimited funds from the Jewish community Mr. Irving didn t have a chance. This isn t to say that Irving isn t an anti-Semite, or that he s never let his personal bias show through in his works or in his speeches, because he has.
Nobody can stand that kind of scrutiny.
And now to Deborah Lipstadt. Most will not want to hear from her again. As far as Fred Leuchter, an assessment of his report must wait until the Polish government publishes its own findings. He s become a cult figure with over 3000 websites about him equally divided up between the far left and the far right. For now, he got into the debate because he was a well known, probably the best known, paid consultant dealing with execution hardware in the United States.