Editing David Irving (section)

==Student years==
[[File:David Irving at Brentwood 1955.jpg|thumb|Irving in 1955]]

After completing his [[Advanced Level (UK)|A levels]] at [[Brentwood School (Brentwood, England)|Brentwood School]], Irving studied for a physics degree at [[Imperial College London]], leaving after the first year. He did not complete the course because of financial constraints.<ref name="Guttenplan 41" /><ref name="ShermerGrobman2009p281">{{Harvnb|Shermer|Grobman|2009|p=281}}.</ref> Irving later resumed his studies but had to drop out again for the same reason.<ref>{{Harvnb|Evans|2002|p=11}}</ref><ref name="adl profile">{{cite web|title = David Irving: Propagandists' Poster Boy |publisher = [[Anti-Defamation League]] |year = 2005|url = http://www.adl.org/holocaust/irving.asp |access-date =18 April 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070405134246/http://www.adl.org/holocaust/irving.asp |archive-date =5 April 2007 }}</ref>

===''Carnival Times'' article===
Irving's time as an editor of the ''Carnival Times'', a student [[rag mag]] of the [[University of London]] Carnival Committee, became controversial in 1959 when he added a "secret supplement" to the magazine.<ref>[http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/irving.html?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=irving Extremism in America: David Irving] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230115529/http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/irving.html?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=irving |date=30 December 2017 }} [[Anti-Defamation League]]</ref><ref name=Waterhouse/> This supplement contained an article in which he called Hitler the "greatest unifying force Europe has known since [[Charlemagne]]". Although Irving deflected criticism by characterising the ''Carnival Times'' as "[[satire|satirical]]",<ref>{{Harvnb|Wyden|2001|p=159}},</ref> he also stated that "[[Treaty of Rome|the formation of a European Union]] is interpreted as building a group of superior peoples, and the Jews have always viewed with suspicion the emergence of any 'master-race' (other than their own, of course)".<ref name="50 Years On: David Irving, Apartheid and ULU">{{cite web |last=Lay |first=Kat |url=http://www.london-student.net/2009/05/26/50-years-on-david-irving-apartheid-and-ulu/ |title=50 years on: David Irving, Apartheid and ULU |publisher=London Student |date=26 May 2009 |access-date=21 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130160544/http://www.london-student.net/2009/05/26/50-years-on-david-irving-apartheid-and-ulu/ |archive-date=30 November 2009}}</ref> Opponents also viewed a cartoon included in the supplement as racist and criticised another article in which Irving wrote that the British press was owned by Jews.<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen E. |last=Atkins |year=2009 |title=Holocaust Denial as an International Movement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9Uj6u6b-ZIC&pg=PA119 |location=Walport, Connecticut; London, England |publisher=Praeger |page=119 |isbn=978-0-313-34538-8}}</ref> Volunteers were later recruited to remove and destroy the supplements before the magazine's distribution.<ref name="50 Years On: David Irving, Apartheid and ULU"/>

Irving later said that the criticism was "probably justifiable" and described his motivation in producing the controversial secret issue of ''Carnival Times'' as preventing the ''Carnival'' from making a profit that would be passed to a South African anti-apartheid group, which he considered a "subversive organisation".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/mssa:ms.1500/EAD&big=y&adv=&query=South%20African%20Apartheid%20Collection%20&filter=&hitPageStart=1&sortFields=&view=c01_8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708174040/http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/SaxonServlet?style=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/saxon/EAD/yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&source=http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/mssa:ms.1500/EAD&big=y&adv=&query=South%20African%20Apartheid%20Collection%20&filter=&hitPageStart=1&sortFields=&view=c01_8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2010 |title=International Pressure Groups: Non-American groups and their respective governments to bring an end to South African apartheid 1963–1991 |website=drs.library.yale.edu:8083 |publisher=Yale University |access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref>