David Irving has been released from an Austrian prison and deported to his native England, after serving 13 months of a three-year sentence.  In press interviews the newly released Irving admitted that there were gas chambers at Auschwitz, but perversely insisted that fewer than half of the six million Jews estimated by mainstream historians to have perished under the Nazis were actually killed.

According to Agence France Presse, Irving stated, “I think Mel Gibson is right,” in a telephone interview with reporters while he was still in Austria, awaiting deportation to England.  Irving appears to be referring to Gibson’s much-publicized allegation that Jews are “responsible for all the wars in the world.”  This is consistent with the approach to World War II that Irving has become famous for: accepting Nazi propaganda claims that Jews were themselves to blame for stirring up conflict, and that the suffering inflicted upon them by the Nazis was only a logical defensive position against dangerous and subversive Jews.