Editing David Irving (section)

==Subsequent works==
{{See also|Broome v Cassell & Co Ltd}}

After the success of the Dresden book, Irving continued writing, including some works of [[Historical negationism|negationist history]], although his 1964 work ''[[The Mare's Nest]]'' – an account of the German [[V-weapons]] programme and the Allied intelligence countermeasures against it – was widely praised when published and continues to be well regarded. [[Michael J. Neufeld]] of the Smithsonian's [[National Air and Space Museum]] has described ''The Mare's Nest'' as "the most complete account on both Allied and German sides of the V-weapons campaign in the last two years of the war."<ref>{{cite book|last=Neufeld|first=Michael J|chapter=Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War|editor-last=Dick|editor-first=Steven J|title=Remembering the Space Age|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=2009|isbn=9780160867118}}</ref>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13774, Adolf Hitler.jpg|left|upright|thumb|Irving once said he works to remove the "slime" applied to the reputation of [[Adolf Hitler]] (pictured).<ref name="Rosenbaum 232">{{Harvnb|Rosenbaum|1999|p=232}}.</ref>]]

Irving translated the ''Memoirs'' of Field Marshal [[Wilhelm Keitel]] in 1965 (edited by Walter Görlitz).<ref>{{cite web |title=The memoirs of field Marshall Keitel |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/431158 |website=Catalogue |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=9 March 2025}}</ref> In 1967 he published ''Accident: The Death of General Sikorski''. In this book, Irving claimed that the plane crash which killed [[Polish government in exile]] leader General [[Władysław Sikorski]] in 1943 was really an assassination ordered by [[Winston Churchill]].{{sfn|Evans|2002|p=10}} This view was criticised by Colin Smyth in his 1969 book ''The Assassination of Winston Churchill''. Irving sued Smyth for libel but was unsuccessful and ordered to pay costs.{{sfn|Evans|2002|p=19}}

Also in 1967, Irving published two more works: ''The Virus House'', an account of the [[German nuclear energy project]] for which Irving conducted many interviews,<ref name="Virus House research"/> and ''The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17''. In the latter book he accused the British escort group commander Commander [[Jack Broome]] of cowardice in relation to the destruction of [[Convoy PQ 17]]. Broome sued Irving for libel in 1968. The [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] found in Broome's favour in 1970, with this ruling later being upheld by the [[House of Lords]]. Irving was forced to pay £40,000 in damages; this included £25,000 of exemplary damages which are only awarded when it is proven that the defendant deliberately committed a [[tort]] with the aim of making money.{{sfn|Evans|2002|p=19}}<ref name="BBC Profile">{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Andrew |title=Profile: David Irving |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4449948.stm |access-date=9 March 2025 |work=BBC News |date=20 February 2006 |archive-date=24 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524182626/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4449948.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

After ''PQ-17'', Irving largely shifted to writing biographies. In 1968, he published ''Breach of Security'', an account of German reading of messages to and from the British Embassy in Berlin before 1939 with an introduction by the British historian [[Donald Cameron Watt]]. As a result of Irving's success with ''Dresden'', members of Germany's extreme right wing assisted him in contacting surviving members of Hitler's inner circle. In an interview with the American journalist [[Ron Rosenbaum]], Irving claimed to have developed sympathies towards them.<ref>{{Harvnb|Rosenbaum|1999|pp=227–229}}.</ref> Many ageing former mid- and high-ranked Nazis saw a potential friend in Irving and donated diaries and other material. Irving described his historical work to Rosenbaum as an act of "stone-cleaning" of Hitler, in which he cleared off the "slime" that he felt had been unjustly applied to Hitler's reputation.<ref name="Rosenbaum 232" />

In 1969, during a visit to Germany, Irving met [[Robert Kempner]], one of the American prosecutors at the [[Nuremberg trials]].<ref name="Lipstadt 293">{{Harvnb|Lipstadt|2005|p=293}}.</ref> Irving asked Kempner whether the "official record of the Nuremberg Trials was falsified", and told him that he was planning to go to Washington, D.C., to compare the sound recordings of Luftwaffe Field-Marshal [[Erhard Milch]]'s March 1946 evidence with the subsequently published texts to find proof that evidence given at Nuremberg was "tampered with and manipulated".<ref>{{Harvnb|Lipstadt|2005|pp=293–294}}.</ref> Upon his return to the United States, Kempner wrote to [[J. Edgar Hoover]], the director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], that Irving expressed many "anti-American and anti-Jewish statements".<ref name="Lipstadt 293" />

In 1971, Irving translated the memoirs of General [[Reinhard Gehlen]], and in 1973 published ''The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe'', a biography of Field Marshal Milch. He spent the remainder of the 1970s working on ''[[Hitler's War]]'' and ''The War Path'', his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler; ''The Trail of the Fox,'' a biography of Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]]; and a series in the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' describing the [[Royal Air Force]]'s famous [[Operation Chastise|Dam Busters]] raid. In 1975, in his introduction to ''Hitler und seine Feldherren'', the German edition of ''Hitler's War'', Irving attacked [[The Diary of a Young Girl|Anne Frank's diary]] as a forgery, claiming falsely that a New York court had ruled that the diary was really the work of the American scriptwriter [[Meyer Levin]] "in collaboration with the girl's father".<ref>{{Harvnb|Lipstadt|1993|p=232}}.</ref> The publisher of ''Hitler und seine Feldherren'' was later required to pay damages in relation to this claim.{{sfn|Evans|2002|p=19}}