David Irving: Spokesman for Holocaust Denial

The National Alliance has also provided a forum for David Irving, the well-known British Holocaust denier. Irving has asserted that Hitler neither proposed nor knew about the mass extermination of the Jews of Europe and that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Irving addressed National Alliance events at least four times between 1995 and 1997. At a talk sponsored by the Cleveland NA unit in September 1996, Irving reportedly called the figure of six million Jews killed by the Nazis a "gross exaggeration that someone in New York came up with." In 1998, Irving continued to appear at NA-sponsored events, sharing his "revisionist history" with members in New Jersey and Cleveland, and with a broader audience at Washington State University (WSU), in Pullman, Washington. Irving's public appearance at WSU was reportedly organized by an NA member who is a student at the school.