I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. I say to you quite tastelessly that...
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David Irving:
[first lines; in a video speaking to a sympathetic audience]
I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. I say to you quite tastelessly that more women died on the back seat of Senator Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.
[audience laughing and applauding]
Deborah Lipstadt:
Holocaust denial rests on four basic assertions. Number 1: That there was never any systematic or organized attempt by the Nazis to kill all of Europe's Jews. Number 2: That the numbers are far fewer than five or six million. Number 3: That there were no gas chambers or specially built extermination facilities. Number 4: That the Holocaust is therefore a myth invented by Jews to get themselves financial compensation and to further the fortunes of the State of Israel. War, the deniers say, is a bloody business. There's nothing special about the Jews, they're not unique in their suffering. They're just everyday casualties of war. What's the fuss?
Deborah Lipstadt:
Okay, and here's another question, how do we know the Holocaust happened? Seriously. I'm asking. How do we prove it? Photographic evidence? Not one person in this room or outside it has ever seen a photograph of a Jew inside a gas chamber. You know why? Because the Germans made sure that none were ever taken. So how do we know? How do we *know* that so many were murdered? So what's the proof? Where's the proof? How strong is it?
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I don't think we can
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Nor can we take the second route
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which would be just to say that the offending words
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aren't as offensive as Irving makes out
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Oh we can't take that route No they're offensive
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I hope so God knows I tried to be
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Yeah So really it does just leave us with this one option
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We call this the atom bomb defense
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That's the one we're gonna go for
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We plead justification
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So even if the words are defamatory
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they are still nevertheless true
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Quite Not every word It doesn't have to be every word
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We can get some things wrong But we do have to prove
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what we call the sting of the libel
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We argue that Irving deliberately subordinated the truth
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in order to propagate anti Semitism
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and engender sympathy for the Third Reich
Clip duration: 37 seconds
Views: 160
Timestamp in movie: 00h 21m 04s
Uploaded: 18 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama
Summary: Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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