https://irving.video/videos/watch/b0ed25fb-33a1-4910-bb50-42d2234f9851 OverviewA 138-minute autobiographical account in which historian David Irving discusses his life, writing career, and research methodology. Irving traces his background, early work as a steelworks laborer in Germany, his entry into historical writing via the Dresden bombing, and the legal prosecutions he faced in Austria and England. He contextualizes his approach to controversial historical subjects and addresses obstacles he identifies as impediments to free speech and independent scholarship. Topics coveredFamily background and father's naval service in World Wars I and II 00:01:00, Prison sentences in England (1995) and Austria (2005–2006) under contempt and historical revisionism laws 00:02:00, Conditions of solitary confinement in Austrian prison and court proceedings 00:03:03, Early education at Brentwood School and London University, studies in physics and politics 00:06:01, Work as a steelworker at Thiessen steelworks in the Ruhr valley, 1950s 00:07:03, Discovery of the Dresden bombing story and early research methodology via correspondence 00:09:01, Interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris and publication of The Destruction of Dresden 00:11:02, Key momentsIrving recounts a German steelworker from Leipzig telling him of witnessing the Dresden bombing that killed 100,000 in one night—"my blood runs cold even now when I think about this" 00:10:02, He describes receiving 600 letters from eyewitnesses after advertising in newspapers across Germany, America, and England for accounts of the Dresden raid 00:10:02, Irving recalls interviewing Air Chief Marshal Harris in April 1962, and Harris revealing the Dresden raid was a political decision ordered by Churchill, not a military one 00:11:02, SourceRecorded in 2009, likely as a standalone archival interview; Irving references speaking from a house "not far from the castle where the Queen lives in Windsor" and addresses an unidentified interviewer or recording apparatus directly., No specific broadcaster, venue, or interviewer name is identified in the transcript; the format appears to be a seated monologue or autobiographical oral history., Originally published to or added to the David Irving Video Archive (irving.video); no upstream institutional broadcaster is evident from available metadata., About this archive: irving.video preserves the lectures, interviews, and TV appearances of historian David Irving. All videos are captioned, every transcript is searchable. Books at irvingbooks.com. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:07:48 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://irving.video https://irving.video/lazy-static/avatars/217f0272-12b9-4650-9c50-a2b60755061b.jpg https://irving.video/videos/watch/b0ed25fb-33a1-4910-bb50-42d2234f9851 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://irving.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.