David Irving on The Bomb and Writing History

David Cauldwell Irving (1938 - ) is a British self-taught historian who has written history purely from the original, contemporary sources. He has shunned eyewitness testimony as unreliable. This approach has led him to clash with many conventional historians and the modern historical narratives they uphold. Attacked and often abused for his take on historical events, Irving has been at pains to go against conventional wisdom, group-think and consensus narratives. He has found himself at odds with the international politically correct establishment, which accounts for most governments in the West.

Irving, 80 years old at the time of this speech to a small but enthusiastic audience in the English Midlands, talks about rarely discussed events surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. His discussion includes his take on some modern events, post-war historical cover-ups and the top figures of the National Socialist leadership he met in the decades immediately following German surrender in 1945.