“ In the 1980s he founded the neo-Nazi German Freedom Movement. In the 1990s he was convicted for incitement to racial hatred. Funke alleges that he has extensive contacts with strands of right wing extremism in Germany and abroad. He can be seen in the video of the meeting at Munich on 21 April 1990. Irving has interviewed Remer and written favourably about him regularly in his Action Reports. ”

“ Faurisson is a former French literature teacher who has argued that Anne Frank’s diary is a forgery; that the gas chambers and the genocide of the Jews are lies and that there is a Jewish conspiracy to exploit the Holocaust in order to obtain money for Israel. ”

“ Irving also mounted the argument that it would not be in the least reprehensible for him to associate with somebody holding extremist views. It would be objectionable to associate with extremists only if they were violent.
10.28 Irving sees this part of the Defendants’ plea of justification as an attempt at “guilt by association”, comparable with the worst excesses of the McCarthy era in the US. As an illustration of what he regarded as an attempt by the Defendants to smear him, Irving cited Funke’s claim that a man named simply as “Thomas” in his diary was in fact Thomas Dienel. ”

“ The rely in addition on the recording of the talk he gave in Tampa, Florida in 1996 in which Irving is welcomed by the chairman “on behalf of the National Alliance”. National Alliance literature, which is on sale at the meetings arranged by the organisation, reveals that membership is limited to “non-Jewish Whites”, who support the goals of the organisation which include building a new White world, the advancement of the Aryan race and the restoration of White living space. ”

“ In 1991 Irving is alleged to have organised a meeting between Weber of the IHR and Weckert of the DVU in Germany. Irving’s works are promoted in IHR literature. The IHR is involved in arranging some of Irving’s speaking tours in the United States.
10.24 National Alliance: the National Alliance is a large neo-Nazi organisation in the US led by William Pierce. It is right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic. In his answers to pre-trial requests by the Defendants for information Irving stated:
“I have no association with the body known to the Defendants as the National Alliance as such or whatsoever. ”

“ Some of them engage in or advocate the use of violence. I shall list them, summarising in each case where, according to the Defendants, they stand in the political spectrum and what is the nature of Irving’s alleged association with them.
10.8 Gerhard Frey/ DVU: Frey is the leader of the DVU and, it is alleged, a leading right-wing extremist who plays down the crimes of the Nazi period. He helped to organise the meeting at Passau for the DVU on 16th February 1991. He can be seen in a video made by Irving of a meeting at Passau. ”