Day 2: Wednesday, 12th January 2000

Table of Contents

Part I: Initial Proceedings (104.1 to 128.17)

Section 104.1 to 115.3

Trial Transcription Details 104.1-104.26

Video Excerpts, Newsreel of Judgment from Auschwitz Trial 105.1-110.13

Video Excepts, ABC (Australian) news broadcast, July 1994 110.14-115.3

Section 115.4 to 128.17

Schedule of Auschwitz Evidence discussed 115.4-120.5

How to order Irving’s Testimony and Cross examination 120.6-126.8

How Irving will testify in chief and under cross 126.9-128.17

Part II: David Irving’s Evidence in Chief (128.18 to 216.6)

Section 128.18 to 135.13

Summary of Irving’s statement, January 22 1999 128.18-131.12

Irving’s expertise reputation as historian 131.13-135.13

Section 135.14 to 152.17

Publication of Denying the Holocaust 135.14-140.14

Irving’s complaint regarding damage to reputation 140.14-146.8

Effect on Irving personally 146.9-152.17

Section 152.18 to 172.19

Irving rejects “Holocaust Denier” 152.18-160.4

Hitler’s role in the shooting of Jews at Riga 160.5-165.6

Himmler’s message to Joachim, December 1941 165.7-169.16

The Schelegelberger document 169.17-172.19

Section 172.20 to 195.7

Irving’s historiography and use of documents 172.2-175.25

The Destruction of Dresden 175.26-184.2

Irving’s interviews with Hitler’s staff 184.3-192.14

Irving’s use of source material 192.15-195.7

Section 195.8 to 219.6

Irving raises two points on Dresden and adjutants 195.8-199.19

Distortion of evidence 199.20-204.8

Antisemitism and right-wing extremism 204.9-211.17

Ernst Zundel 211.18-214.24

Conclusion of Irving’s examination in chief 214.25-219.6

Part III: Richard Rampton’s Cross Examination of Irving (219.7 to 292.26)

Section 219.7 to 239.13

Discussion of terms: “Holocaust” and “Holocaust Denier” 219.7-227.23

Chelsea Town Hall press conference 227.24-239.13

Section 239.14 to 257.5

Removal of “Holocaust” from Hitler’s War (1991) 239.14-245.8

Rejection of “gas chamber Holocaust” 245.9-252.26

Denying gas chambers and Holocaust denial 253.1-257.5

Section 257.6 to 279.16

Einsatzgruppen reports and Hitler’s knowledge 257.6-266.7

Systematic nature of reports to Hitler 266.8-273.12

Mass killings on the Eastern Front 273.13-279.16

Section 279.17 to 292.26

The Bruns document 279.17-284.19

Specificity or Generality of Himmler’s order 284.20-292.26