Los Angeles - British historian David Irving is delighted with the publicity he received during his recent unsuccessful libel battle in London but will appeal the verdict branding him a racist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, organisers of his first major post-trial speech said yesterday.
Mr Irving, who claims that Adolf Hitler did not mastermind the mass slaughter of Jews, was a surprise guest at a weekend conference of revisionist historians meeting at a secret location in southern California, his first major speaking appearance since he lost a London libel action in April against US professor Deborah Lipstadt, who wrote a book calling him a "Holocaust denier".