trial-transcripts

David Irving calls and examines Professor Kevin McDonald on the subject of antisemitism and its origins. Richard Rampton re-examines David Irving on Hitler’s knowledge of the Final Solution and the nature and extent of Hitler’s antisemitism. He also questions Irving on his uncritical use of Hitler’s adjutant’s testimony after the war.

David Irving continues his examination of Professor Jan van Pelt on the construction of gas chambers at Auschwitz. The subjects include the secrecy involving the Nazis plans, and construction of the crematoria, gas tight doors, chimneys, and the roofs. Professor Van Pelt’s testimony includes photographic evidence. The fate of the Hungarian Jews, who arrived en masse and were largely murdered in early 1944, is also examined.

David Irving continues to examine Professor Jan van Pelt on the documentation for the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz. The subjects include eyewitness evidence, the use of Zyklon-B, and various construction features such as gas tight doors and corpse elevators.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton on the documentation for the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz including various legitimate forensic reports and documentation on the design of the crematoria. Professor Jan van Pelt is called by the Defense and is examined by David Irving in the first of almost four days he is to spend on the stand. Professor van Pelt testifies about the construction and implementation of the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz and on the eyewitness testimony regarding their building and use.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton on the documentation for the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz including various legitimate forensic reports, time sheets for workers, orders for gas tight doors and correspondence relating to architectural details. Irving is also questioned about his dismissal of eyewitness evidence of the gas chambers and his uncritical acceptance of the conclusions of the Leuchter Report.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton on his interpretation of the Schlegelberger note, which deals with the fate of the ‘mischlinge’ (half-Jews) in the Reich. Professor Cameron Watt is called and examined by Irving about his views of Hitler’s role in the Final Solution and the Allies’ knowledge of the murderous activities at Auschwitz via intelligence intercepts.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton on his interpretation of the evidence for the systematic nature of the Holocaust and the true meaning of words such as “deportation,” “evacuation,” “extirpation,” “liquidation,” and others as they applied to the fate of the Jews of Europe. Irving is questioned on whether he agrees that some 97,000 Jews were murdered at Chelmno using gas vans. Irving is also questioned about the matter of whether Hitler ever committed an order for the Holocaust to paper and about the Schlegelberger note.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton about Irving’s so-called ‘Chain of Documents’ on which Irving bases his views of the Holocaust. The documents relate to Hitler’s knowledge of the Final Solution and the systematic nature of the Final Solution. These include Himmler’s interaction with Hitler and Irving’s uncritical use of Hitler’s adjutant’s testimony and memoirs after the war. The documentation of the systematic nature of the Final Solution is traced through the beginning of the use of gas vans at Chelmno, to Operation Reinhard (Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka) and thence to Auschwitz.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton about Irving’s so-called ‘Chain of Documents’ on which he bases his views of the Holocaust. The documents relate to Hitler’s knowledge of the Final Solution and the systematic nature of the Final Solution. These include the Einsatzgruppen’s reports to Berlin on their murderous activities in the East, Himmler’s notes for a meeting with Hitler, Goebbels diaries, and Hitler’s Table Talk. Irving also testifies briefly about his activities in Moscow regarding his access to the Goebbels diaries.

David Irving is examined by Richard Rampton about Irving’s so-called ‘Chain of Documents’ on which Irving bases his views of the Holocaust. These documents relate to Hitler’s knowledge of the Final Solution and the systematic nature of the Final Solution. These include Himmler’s phone log and various communications from Berlin to Riga regarding the mass shooting of Berlin Jews. Other subjects are Irving’s selective use of the perpetrator’s eyewitness testimony and contemporary documents including that of Walter Bruns, Goebbels diaries, Hans Frank, and Dieter Wisleceny.