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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 v. Lipstadt|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."''<ref>The Systematic Character of the National Socialist Policy for the Extermination of the Jews: Electronic Edition, by Heinz Peter Longerich. Part V: The machinery of mass murder in full operation (1942-1944). Subsection: 7. http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/defense/pl2/V</ref> And claimed under oath: "... they started in the concentration camps a programme which they called "extermination through work"."<ref>Trial transcript. Day 25. Page 23/4: http://www.hdot.org/en/trial/transcripts/day25/pages21-25</ref> When pressed by Irving for a wartime source for such a claim, Longerich finally admitted: "Maybe it was mistake,"<ref>Trial transcript. Day 25. Page 57. http://hdot.org/en/trial/transcripts/day25/pages56-60</ref>
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)[reply]
