David Irving : 'Holocaust denier' vows to fight on

Controversial historian David Irving has vowed to continue his legal battle to restore his reputation.
On Friday the 63-year-old was refused permission to appeal against a High Court libel ruling which branded him a "Holocaust denier".

Irving faces a £2m legal bill after last year losing his libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over her book, Denying the Holocaust

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But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday that he would continue with a separate libel case against Guardian Newspapers and writer Gitta Sereny, biographer of Hitler's architect Albert Speer.

Following Friday's ruling Mr Irving has 21 days to pay the first £150,000 of legal costs.

He refused to discuss on the Today programme whether this decision would mean his bankruptcy, but told the BBC that he was already "£250,000 out of pocket".

"Fortunately I have a worldwide circle of many thousands of supporters, mostly in the USA, who have given me five and ten dollar bills to fight this action."
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Ms Lipstadt had described Mr Irving as a "Hitler partisan" who had distorted history and as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial."

Mr Justice Gray ruled in a trial in April that Mr Irving was anti-Semitic, a racist and an "active" Holocaust denier.
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