History on trial: my day in court with David Irving

Prologue: the letter

The prelude

A personal and scholarly odyssey

The defense strategy

Auschwitz: a forensic tour

Our objective changes

The trial

"All rise!"

Irving in the box: not a denier but a victim

The chain of documents

The Holocaust : random killings or systematic genocide?

Queues and gas chamber controversies

An American professor

Exonerating Hitler, excoriating the Allies

Fighting words

Revolting calculations

Lying about Hitler

The diary of Anne Frank : a novel?

Our German contingent

Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association?

One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas

The final scene

The aftermath

Judgment day: phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors

Enormous thanks

The "jester's costume".