Believe me, I had my own doubts. Then the David Irving trial came. I read the transcript every day of the proceedings. I worked in the City at the time. Like you, David Irving honestly doubted the Holocaust narrative, and I did too. However, the trial invited experts, who put evidence before Irving, which led him to change to his mind. At his 2006 criminal trial in Vienna, Austria, David Irving claimed he changed his mind about the Holocaust after reviewing the personal files and diaries of Adolf Eichmann, which became available in 1991–1992. Based on this, Irving pleaded guilty to the charges, stating he now accepted that the Nazis killed millions of Jews and that gas chambers did exist. However, at the London trial Irving had changed his mind again and thought gas chambers did not exist. Then came van Pelt's testimony. Architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt presented comprehensive blueprint and forensic evidence. This included Crematorium Modifications. Original blueprints showing the structural conversion of Birkenau’s underground mortuaries into gas chambers. Zyklon B Delivery Systems. Documentation of the ventilation and induction columns used to introduce and rapidly extract lethal gas. David Irving conceded he was wrong and that the gas chambers existed. However, regarding the numbers there is of course still debate. In 2002, the left wing journalist Fritjof Meyer published a highly controversial article in the academic journal Osteuropa, where he claimed that approximately 510,000 people were murdered at Auschwitz. The main consenus places the figure much higher, at 1.1 million. Either way, the gas chambers were real. The Final Solution was real, in the sense of the Einsatzgruppen targeting and killing jews. This all happened. I had my doubts too, trust me. I don't anymore.
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