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> Nu se poate pune problema "interesului pt. adevarul istoric": Irving e
> unul dintre cei mai documentati istorici ai celui de-al "Treilea
> Reich".
Cu atat mai mult este de condamnat pentru felul in care a
manipulat adevarul istoric ca sa-si sustina tezele. Cititi concluziile judecatorului Gray in procesul de calomnie pe care Irving
l-a intentat si l-a pierdut in 2000, cred ca sunt suficient de clare si mai
mult decat elocvente. Iata numai cateva (intregul document are vreo
330 de pagini, asa ca scroll down pana la Cap. XIII. "Findings on
justification", pe la pag. 323 si mai departe, "Assessment of Irving as an
historian"):
13.140 Judecatorul admite ca "errare humanum est"
("Historians are human: they make mistakes, misread and
misconstrue documents and overlook material evidence.") Cu
toate acestea, "I have found that, in numerous
respects, 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. It appears to me that an analysis of
those instances may shed light on the question whether Irving’s
misrepresentation of the historical evidence was
deliberate."
13.142 Irving a fost consecvent, a
gresit numai intr-un sens ("all Irving’s
historiographical “errors” converge, in the sense that they all tend to
exonerate Hitler and to reflect Irving’s partisanship for the Nazi leader. If
indeed they were genuine errors or mistakes, one would not expect to find this
consistency. [...] this convergence is a cogent reason for supposing that the
evidence has been deliberately slanted by
Irving.")
13.143 [...] "Certain of Irving’s
misrepresentations of the historical evidence might appear to be simple mistakes
on his part [...] But there are other occasions where Irving’s treatment of the
historical evidence is so perverse and egregious that it is difficult to accept
that it is inadvertence on his part."
13.144 - 13.151 Suficiente
exemple ale modului in care Irving a eliminat probele care nu-i conveneau
(marturiile despre camere de gazare, despre crematoriile de la Auschwitz,
despre ordinele lui Hitler de a primi rapoarte cu numarul de impuscati
etc.), sau ale modului in care a tratat cu scepticism orice marturii ale
supravietuitorilor. Conform judecatorului Gray: "In my judgment he did so because it does not conform to his
ideological agenda [...] because this was for him an inconvenient document and
not because there were real doubts about it genuineness."
"The double standards which Irving adopts to some
of the documents and to some of the witnesses appears to me to be further
evidence that Irving is seeking to manipulate the evidence rather than
approaching it as a dispassionate, if sometimes mistaken,
historian."
13.163 [...] "I find myself unable to accept Irving’s contention that his
falsification of the historical record is the product of innocent error or
misinterpretation or incompetence on his part [...] it appears to me that the
correct and inevitable inference must be that for the most part the
falsification of the historical record was deliberate and that Irving was
motivated by a desire to present events in a manner consistent with his own
ideological beliefs even if that involved distortion and manipulation of
historical evidence."
13.167 [...] "The charges which
I have found to be substantially true include the charges that Irving has for
his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and
manipulated historical evidence; that for the same reasons he has portrayed
Hitler in an unwarrantedly favourable light, principally in relation to his
attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews; that he is an
active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-semitic and racist and that he
associates with right wing extremists who promote
neo-Nazism."
Asa ca problema "interesului pt. adevarul istoric" se
pune tocmai pentru ca, in cazul lui Irving, care a falsificat adevarul istoric
(discreditandu-se, astfel, din punct de vedere profesional), acest
interes s-a dovedit a fi egal cu zero.
Vali
An aristocratic title is not enough to ensure a noble behaviour. A person's greatness comes from acknowledging the mistakes and agreeing to correct them.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix)
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