Day 3: Thursday, 13th January 2000

Table of Contents

Part I: Initial Proceedings (1.1 to 27.8)

Section 1.1 to 13.3

Trial Transcription Details 1.1-1.26

Discussion of changing courtrooms. 2.1-4.26

Problems regarding transcription and translation. 5.1-10.2

Euphemisms of evacuations/disposal of Jews. 10.3-13.3

Section 13.4 to 27.8

Well-stocked supply trains 13.4-15.10

Photocopy of a page of a war diary at Hitler’s headquarters 15.11-20.6

Jeckelm’s reprimand 20.7-25.21

Methods of tracing evidence and organizing data. 25.22-27.8

Part II: David Irving’s Cross-Examination by Richard Rampton, continued (27.9 to 107.21)

Section 27.9 to 43.13

Disagreements regarding translation errors 27.9-34.17

Introduction to Hitler’s War (1977) 38.25-40.19

Evidence of orders 40.20-43.13

Section 43.14 to 60.23

Irving’s historical methods and mechanisms for inference 43.14-49.22

Journalists’ meeting with Hitler 49.23-52.26

Mass shootings, reprimands, and Hitler’s role 53.1-58.25

German morality regarding Jews and the disabled 58.26-60.23

Section 60.24 to 77.8

Precision of handwriting analysis for Himmler’s diaries 60.24-64.20

Removal of “Holocaust” from a published book 64.21-72.26

Removal of “Holocaust” as deliberate revisionism 73.1-77.8

Section 77.9 to 94.3

Errors in Irving’s book 77.9-82.13

Altemeyer and Hitler’s orders 82.14-88.14

Irving’s evaluation of Bruns’ and Altemayer’s credibility 88.15-94.3

Section 94.4 to 107.21

Misrepresentation of the Altemeyer and Bruns document 94.4-100.2

Discussion of transcription 100.3-104.3

Mass killings and orders 104.4-107.21

Part III: David Irving’s Cross-Examination by Richard Rampton, continued, Afternoon Session (107.22 to 204.25)

Section 107.22 to 123.22

Discussion of German extradition 107.22-111.7

1977 edition of Hitler’s War 111.8-119.20

Inflation of prohibitions against the liquidation of the Jews 119.21-123.22

Section 123.22 to 140.18

Irving accused of deliberate distortion 123.23-125.14

Irving’s interpretation of Goebbels’ diary 125.15-135.4

Discussion of the word “Vernichtung” and its meaning 135.5-140.18

Section 140.19 to 172.26

Hitler’s plans for the Jews according to Goebbels 140.19-149.16

Goebbels’s diary and the Gauleiter speech 149.17-156.2

Gauleiter speech on Hitler’s order to liquidate the Jews 156.3-163.8

Hanz Frank and overpopulation and liquidation 163.9-172.26

Section 173.1 to 187.26

Timeline of Hanz Frank and Hitler in Berlin 173.1-177.26

Irving’s placement of Hitler when orders recorded 178.1-182.5

Excerpt from Hanz Frank’s diary on the Jewish problem 182.6-187.26

Section 188.1 to 204.26

Wisliceny’s report and the European Jews 188.1-193.2

Wisliceny’s character and credibility 193.3-198.5

Wisliceny and watershed moments 198.6-204.26