In which decade did David Irving begin to turn towards Holocaust denial?
1980s
1960s
1970s
1990s
Answer
By the late 1980s, David Irving had placed himself outside the mainstream of the study of history and began to turn from "soft-core" to "hard-core" Holocaust denial. This shift was possibly influenced by the 1988 trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel.
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