Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by David Irving

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British author David Irving.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

David John Cawdell Irving is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). In his works, he argued that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it. Though Irving's negationist claims and views of German war crimes in World War II were never taken seriously by mainstream historians, he was once recognised for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents.

British - Author | Born: March 24, 1938

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Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

David Irving

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

David Irving

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

David Irving

History is like a constantly changing tree.

David Irving

...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

David Irving

It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation - that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people.

David Irving

The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews.

David Irving

I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

David Irving

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

David Irving

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

David Irving

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

David Irving

I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.

David Irving

Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don't know the figures. I'm not an expert on the Holocaust.

David Irving