David Irving on Norwegian Television

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David Irving on Norwegian Television - May 26, 2009

Part 1 - Part 2

David Irving was invited to speak at the Norwegian Festival of Literature 2009 (May 26-31) but due to public outcry and threats from some of Norway's leading authors, the invitation was withdrawn, much to the dismay of the festival's artistic leader who resigned in protest.

This years theme is truth.

The biggest commercial Norwegian television channel TV 2 decided to invite him to Norway to do an interview. The
channel paid his travel expenses.


From the festival's programme:

We all have our own understanding of what constitutes a truth and a lie, of right and wrong. At times we avoid truth because it is too uncomfortable, at other times we seek it out because we feel its importance in the choices we make in life. We build trusting relationships with people on the basis that they are truthful with us, and we lie to those we love to protect them from the truth. "A lie can be put right, it can be corrected by a further lie, it is never final and absolute. But a truth is, from the outset of its being revealed, inescapable – a brother to death." These are words of the Norwegian novelist and playwright Jens Bjørneboe (1920-76) from the opening passages of Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom). This novel, the first part of the trilogy History of Bestiality, will be read aloud in its entirety during the festival. Bjørneboe explores the most appalling truths about modern Western civilisation, but never abandons the notion that truth, even when it exposes dark actions, can set us free.

Perhaps this explains why writers risk their own personal safety to write what they believe to be the truth? Truth is contentious; we fight over it in religion, politics, history, media and the courtroom. "What is true in one land, is a lie in another" wrote the 18th century Danish playwright, Ludvig Holberg. The 2009 Norwegian Festival
of Literature poses a number of questions: What is contemporary literature's relationship to truth? How do authors approach the concept of truth in areas of conflict, where cultures, religions and languages meet? How do we preserve truth in translated works? The Festival has invited authors that each, in very different ways, handle the theme of truth in their work. In an existence that can often seem both desolate and inhuman, literature confirms its right to assert existential truths and protect the integrity of the individual. (Source)

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interesting link, Irving, hes a strange fish thats for sure. Not sure what to make of him.

Some of his information is sound, although his stange anecdotes about Hilter facts and such sometimes don't do him justice in staged interviews albeit....

hes a proper historian thats for sure, just slightly twisted and obsessed about his choosen subject, Hitler, understandable considering his treatment in the public eye and the main stream media lense.

People take that the wrong way and scream anti-semitc, but I see a determined passion in the man. He views WW2 on a level that I think most people can't even comprehenf. Such detail, that only a life times study could bestow.

What ya all think about him?

Agent, nan, nooooo surely not.

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What ya all think about him?

My opinion of Irving has been moulded somewhat by the views of the revisionists at www.vho.org/
They accuse him of promoting a "holocaust-lite" which he "backs up" with logical leaps from such documents as the Hoefle telegram,"recordings" of "German prisoners of war" in captivity done by the British intelligence services,the Goebbels "diaries" that he "liberated" from Russian archives etc,etc.
Not to mention his needless own goal with the Lipstadt libel victory.
It all reeks of a damage-limitation and muddying-of-the-waters exercise to me.Notice also how irving is constantly wheeled out for media interviews and print articles as the "good little half-denier".For someone who the Jews supposedly don`t like,they give him plenty of media coverage.