Talk:Peter Longerich

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 * Peter Longerich's scholarship & honesty was exposed by David Irving when Longerich submitted an expert report and appeared as a defence witness at the 2000 Irving vs. Penguin & Lipstadt trial. In his report Longerich claimed: "The SS invented the expression "annihilation through labour" (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) for this method of exploiting people to the point of death." And claimed under oath: "... they started in the concentration camps a programme which they called "extermination through work"." When pressed by Irving for a wartime source for such a claim, Longerich finally admitted: "Maybe it was mistake,"

This is original research. None of the sources linked say anything about "Longerich's scholarship & honesty", it's a synthesis of those sources, an original interpretation of those sources. Whoever wrote this appears to be out to sully Longerich's reputation by calling him dishonest and a poor scholar. See WP:BLP. One could just as easily interpret this not as a lie, but simply a minor mistake on Longerich's part while acting as an expert witness, which is hardly notable. Anyway, no source for this. Per WP:BLP, it requires a high degree of verification per WP:RS. Green Cardamom (talk) 17:38, 26 November 2011 (UTC)