Irving To Speak In Budapest At
Heroes' Square
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Revisionist historian to join the far-right on emotionally charged
national holiday
NOTORIOUS revisionist historian David Irving, who was released last
December [2006] from an Austrian jail after serving 13 months for
breaking that country's laws on Holocaust denial, is to speak in
Budapest on Monday, 12 March. He is here at the invitation of his
Hungarian publishers, Gede Brothers, to promote the Hungarian version of
his latest work Nuremberg - The Last Battle. Sándor Gede told news
agency MTI last Thursday that Irving plans to attend book signings in
several towns around Hungary.
The extreme nationalist Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP) said on
its website that Irving will be guest of honour at its rally on Heroes'
Square on 15 March.
Irving famously published the first major work by a western
historian on the 1956 Hungarian Uprising that included interviews
with many protagonists. Although his work, Uprising - One Nation's
Tragedy was well received in some quarters upon publication in 1981,
it has since drawn criticism for its one-sided portrayal of events.
In particular, it presents the revolution as an anti-Jewish reaction
by the population.
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Irving States
My history of the Uprising, published in 1981, described the
opening days of the revolution as having all the characteristics of
an anti-Jewish pogrom.
The CIA and other historians shouldn't dispute the large numbers
of Jews among those publicly executed by the revolutionaries --
secret police officers and torturers -- and among the refugees
fleeing for their lives to the Soviet Union and the west.
The current regime under Prime Minister Gyurcsany has a similar
appearance.
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'Time to leave'
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