h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Last year, as part of a series of articles for a magazine that paid real folding cash for what I write, I had to research the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, about which i previously knew very little.

One of the books I picked up was Irving's history, "Uprising!", and this was an eye-opener.

Irving spends at least half the book establishing WHY the Hungarian people had enough of Communist rule and rose up against it. He blames it on the corruption, inefficiency and self-serving nature of the Hungarian Communist party, a conclusion many normally sane people would be prepared to agree with.

Then he identifies virtually every leading light in the pre-Uprising Party as Jewish in origin, and argues a surprising conclusion: that the Hungarian party was a means for a self-serving Jewish elite to look after itself at the expense of Hungarian gentiles, who were hung out to dry so that the Jews who'd taken over the Communist Party could ensure they got the best of everything for themselves. (Good ammo for anti-Semites, this: that even a Communist Pary can be taken over by those pesky self-serving Jews. Look how dangerous they are...)

Therefore the Uprising was not so much a revolution against Communist rule, it was more a revolution against Jewish rule...

No wonder this guy is thought of as lacking a certain credibility?