Why is David Irving a denier of the holocaust?

Question

What are his motivations?

Political? religious?

Please help me

Answer 1

There is a lot of money to be made in "hate" by selling books, video tapes and even in speaking engagements.  Most of the people that expouse these beliefs are so socially inept and paranoid that they can't even hold a regular job.   So this is how they make their living.

To them, it is important that people believe that Jews control everything in the world, and in denying the Holocaust ever happened they try and make it look like the Jewish people made it all up to get money and sympathy.  

Answer 2

The Freudian answer probably lies with his parents. According to Wikipedia, Irving's father served on a British ship that was sunk by a U-boat. The father survived but severed all ties to his family.

Irving claims his WWII views are based on the cartoonish way Hitler was portrayed in the British media during the war -- but a psychoanalyst would probably say Irving was looking for someone to blame for losing his father.

If Irving thought his father was a coward for cutting off his family after the U-Boat attack, he would perceive the Germans as the stronger ones in the conflict, worthy of praise instead of disdain.

According to the ADL, his college writings were racist and anti-semitic, so he could just be a run-of-the-mill anti-semite.