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Controversial historian David Irving outrages Poles with death camp tour

David Irving, the controversial historian, has outraged war veterans and survivors’ groups with a tour of sites related to the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Irving will be shadowed by the Polish secret service as he takes a week-long guided trip round various sites related to the German occupation of Poland, including a trip to the notorious SS-run camp Treblinka, where more than 800,000 Jews died between 1942 and 1943.

The £1,500-a-head tour, organised by Irving’s Focal Point Publications website, will also visit Heinrich Himmler’s bunker in Hochward as well as Adolf Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters in Ketrzyn, as well as a series of lectures, and screening of the German film Downfall, about the last days of Hitler, featuring commentary by Irving....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)