David Irving

* Re “Holocaust Revisionist Begins U.S. Tour,” May 30: We were outraged to read David Irving described as “one of the best-known historians of the Third Reich.” In the April British court decision against him, Judge Charles Gray characterized Irving as a racist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. Gray wrote that “Irving has misstated historical evidence; adopted positions which run counter to the weight of the evidence; given credence to unreliable evidence and disregarded or dismissed credible evidence . . . Irving’s historiographical ‘errors’ converge, in . . . that they all tend to exonerate Hitler.”

Irving has made frequent appearances before the Institute for Historical Review since 1983. The IHR, based in Costa Mesa, has spearheaded the international movement to deny the Holocaust and remains the world’s single most important outlet for Holocaust-denial propaganda. Irving and other Holocaust deniers must be taken seriously and exposed for who they are and what they stand for and not accorded credibility they do not merit.

DAVID A. LEHRER, Regional

Director, Anti-Defamation

League, Los Angeles

JOYCE GREENSPAN, Regional

Director, Anti-Defamation

League, Orange County