Below see the text of my email to David Irving. If you are interested in reading what he published on his website (that includes additional email exchange but it is not complete), please go to http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/hate_05/Schon_by_name_270705.html
Dear Mr. Irving,
It was with great delight that I watched your lawsuit against Deborah Lipstadt take a turn for the worst. As much as I prize my and everybody else’s right to free speech, I cannot understand how people like you proceed in life as if decency and honesty were abstract concepts which have no impact on them whatsoever. Also, your initial claim that Lipstadt was attempting to curb your right to free speech was ironic at best; after all, you’re the one who took her to court when she, exercising her own right to free speech, made comments about you that you considered unflattering.
I am not even half your age, but I know myself to be mature, well-educated and respectful of people’s heritage and personal history. Unlike you, I do have degrees which, if nothing else, provide me with the ability to step outside of my own familiar environment and realize that what is foreign is not per se malignant. You, Mr. Irving, seem to be unable to understand the nature of true, unbiased debate. The fact that your bogus revision of history went unpunished (or only mildly challenged) for so long does not surprise me: on one hand, there are plenty of people who subscribe to ridiculous theories such as your Holocaust ones (people like you, ignorant and xenophobic by nature); and on the other, I really do believe that the scholarly world did not really take you that seriously – they rather perceived you as a clown of sorts.
The ultimate fallacy is having you actually deny Auschwitz and the gas chambers, where part of my family perished. In doing so, you even defy reports by your own government (and others around world) about the existence of the same. Do you really think us Jews so powerful as to be able to perpetuate a lie of this magnitude in so many different countries, during such a long period of time?
Probably the hardest thing for you Holocaust deniers/anti-Semites to deal with is the fact that not only Hitler and his culprits did not succeed in completely annihilating the Jews but the ordeal has, in many ways, made them stronger. This must be very hard to swallow, Mr. Irving.
In any case, we Jews can’t complain. We can now call you by your proper epithet – Mr. Irving the Anti-Semite (thanks to Judge Charles Gray’s conclusion). Great things you’ve accomplished, dear sir.
Sincerely,
Gisela Schön
David Irving's website: http://www.fpp.co.uk/
