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WAITRESS:

We know what a bagel is.

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She goes. DEBORAH calls after her.

DEBORAH:

And not toasted!

RAMPTON:

I need this. It’s going to be a

tough day.

DEBORAH:

Proving intention?

RAMPTON:

Richard Evans has given us plenty

of places where Irving got his

facts wrong.

DEBORAH:

But we have to prove he got them

wrong intentionally.

RAMPTON:

Exactly.

DEBORAH:

I love Irving’s defence. It makes

me laugh. “Be fair, I’m an honest

historian, I may have made a few

mistakes. Historians do. Yes, I

screwed up, but I didn’t screw up

deliberately.”

RAMPTON:

He’s fighting for his life.

Remember, he knows the law just as

well as we do. Unless we can prove

Irving’s mistakes were deliberate,

we lose. We lose.

119 INT. HIGH COURT. DAY 119

EVANS is in the box. IRVING is cross-examining. DEBORAH looks

across to two perfect blonde WOMEN, who look like Valkyries

in leather and furs behind IRVING. GRAY shifts, impatient.

GRAY:

Mr Irving, the defence are claiming

that you deliberately falsified

evidence to suit your own political

purposes. You must address that

charge. We must deal with what we

call ‘keine liquidierung’.

GRAY gestures to him to continue.

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IRVING:

Very well. We are looking first at

the November 30th entry, am I

right?

IRVING is about to speak but EVANS turns to GRAY.

EVANS:

My Lord, if I may explain the

context?

GRAY:

Please.

EVANS:

Heinrich Himmler, the Head of the

SS, kept a log in which he made a

record of every telephone call he

gave and received. In 1941, he

called Heydrich from Hitler’s

bunker to give him instructions.

After the call he wrote some words.

“Judentransport aus Berlin. Keine

Liquidierung.” Which clearly means

“The Jew Transport from Berlin. No

liquidation.”

For emphasis he repeats the line slowly.

EVANS (CONT’D)

“The Jew Transport” -singular

“From Berlin.”

EVANS picks up HITLER’S WAR. DEBORAH looks expectantly to

RAMPTON as if to say ‘Is this the moment?’ RAMPTON tilts his

head to get DEBORAH to look towards EVANS.

EVANS (CONT’D)

In HITLER’S WAR you write something

completely different. “At 1.30

Himmler was obliged to telephone

from Hitler’s bunker to Heydrich

the explicit order that Jews were

not to be liquidated.” In other

words, you mistranslate the log so

as to pretend that this order came

directly from Hitler - which it

didn’t - they hadn’t even met that

day - and that it applied not to

just one particular trainload but

to all Jews throughout Germany. And

in order to bolster this false

impression, you omit the word

‘Berlin’ altogether.

EVANS smiles, conclusive. Now RAMPTON and DEBORAH both lean

in, scenting the kill.

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EVANS (CONT’D)

So your claim to have

incontrovertible proof that Hitler

tried to stop the liquidation of

the Jews - as opposed to one

particular trainload of Jews - is

false. You knew it then and you

know it now. It’s wrong.

IRVING smiles as though he knows better.

IRVING:

Of course if you privately decided

that it was a reasonable kind of

mistake to make when one is reading

a new document for the first time,

you would immediately tell the

court, would you not?

EVANS:

Of course I would. I do not feel

this is a reasonable mistake to

make. I believe it’s deliberate.

DEBORAH lets out an involuntary snort. The Nordic blondes and

IRVING hear it and turn to her, glaring. RAMPTON whispers to

DEBORAH.

RAMPTON:

Don’t worry, they can’t turn you to

stone.

DEBORAH:

I got to go pee.

DEBORAH gets up to go out. JULIUS sitting next to LAURA

signals to her with a tilt of the head.

120 INT. LADIES’ ROOM. DAY 120

DEBORAH opens the door of her stall, comes out. There is only

one basin vacant, between the two Aryan women. One of them is

adjusting her make-up, the other washing her hands. Suddenly

very aware of being a Jew among Nazis, DEBORAH goes to the

middle basin and washes. The two WOMEN stare at her, silent.

Then DEBORAH goes to dry her hands on the towel. The two

WOMEN are still staring.

121 INT. LAW COURTS. DAY 121

DEBORAH comes out, shaken. LAURA waiting for her outside.

They say nothing as they return to the court, side by side.

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122 INT. LAURA’S FLAT. NIGHT 122

LAURA is working at documents at the little table under a

single light. SIMON is already in bed. He sits up.

LAURA:

What?

SIMON:

Because I’m tired of it. You didn’t

even want to be a lawyer.

She’s tired, and could do without this. He’s gentle.

SIMON (CONT’D)

Holocaust, holocaust. There are

other things. At some point doesn’t

everyone have to let go? Is this

going to go on for ever? It’s an

obsession. How many years? Are they

ever going to let go of this

grievance?

LAURA:

I think it’s rather more than a

grievance.

LAURA doesn’t turn, she’s too angry. She works on. SIMON gets

up and comes to try and kiss her, but she’s cold.

LAURA (CONT’D)

I don’t think you should say any

more.

123 EXT. COURT. DAY 123

The familiar NETWORK REPORTERS outside a busy court.

NETWORK REPORTERS (OVERLAPPING)

Today, this punishing trial finally

heads towards its conclusion. The

defence will have its fifth and

final chance to examine David

Irving. The defence will be seeking

to make a connection between

Irving’s work as a historian and

what they allege is his more

general anti-Semitism and racism...

124 INT. HIGH COURT. DAY 124

The court is once more packed. IRVING is seen on video.

IRVING (VIDEO)

I find the whole Holocaust story

utterly boring.

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IRVING (VIDEO) (CONT'D)

The Jews keep going on about the

Holocaust because it is the only

interesting thing which has

happened to them in 3,000 years.

I’m not interested in the

Holocaust, I don’t know anyone who

is.

RAMPTON freezes the image.

RAMPTON:

That’s an excerpt from a speech you

made at the Best Western Hotel in

Tampa on July 25th 1998.

IRVING:

I remember speaking, I do not know

what the date was.

RAMPTON:

You said “I think 95% of the

thinking public find the Holocaust

endlessly boring but they dare not

say it, because it is politically

incorrect.”

IRVING shrugs as if to say “Well it’s true.” DEBORAH is

watching like a hawk, eyes on RAMPTON.

RAMPTON (CONT’D)

Mr Irving, next I want to refer you

to a talk you gave to the Clarendon

Club, whatever that may be, on 19th

September 1992. The transcripts.

Tab 5, My Lord, page 35.

GRAY:

Thank you.

A VIDEO plays of IRVING at the Clarendon Club.

IRVING (VIDEO)

But if there is one thing that gets

up my nose I must admit it is this.

I switch on my television set and

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