Holocaust denier David Irving on speaking tour in Florida

The well-known British Holocaust denier David Irving, currently on a speaking tour in the United States, is to appear in South Florida, one of the most heavily Jewish regions where many Shoah survivors live. In a telephone interview with the local newspaper "Sun Sentinel", Irving said he would speak "for his friends", many of whom want him to autograph books he has written. Invitations require registration by e-mail or a phone call to Irving. Alan L. Berger, chairman of Holocaust studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, was quoted by the newspaper as saying: "Not only is he a shoddy historian, but he's a Nazi sympathizer.... I find it appalling and pathetic that Irving is having an audience, people that are interesting in hearing him. "Denial of the Holocaust is continuation of the Holocaust. The victims were murdered by the Nazis and the helpers. Now that their memories are being sullied and denied, this is a second kind of spiritual genocide."