An image problem

Given the booming market in comparison of David Irving's 3 year jail term for Holocaust denial and the uproar about the Danish cartoons, consider then Irving's own views on the power of cartoons, expressed to Sunday Times (UK) reporter Dominic Carman a couple of years ago but reproduced in today's paper:

Irving moved on to talk sympathetically about Julius Streicher, one of Hitler’s earliest followers, who published the notorious anti-semitic newspaper Der Stürmer from 1923 to 1945. He was hanged at Nuremberg in 1946 for his role in inciting the extermination of Jews: “Der Stürmer was very clever,” Irving smiles in great satisfaction. “The quality of the draughtsmanship of cartoons was spectacular. I’ve got a series of them on my website.

“There’s the postcard of the Jewish man in the street handing sweets to little children.” Like a grotesque sideshow, Irving distorted his face and lowered his voice, affecting a German Jewish accent: “ ‘Here little girl, here’s a little sweetie for you. I have more at home’. Viciously drawn, but spectacular, excellent draughtsmanship. Not a capital offence of course. But poor Julius was hanged. Today he wouldn’t even get a suspended sentence.”

Note Irving's understanding, despite or because of his rampant anti-Semitism, that sometimes a cartoon is not just a cartoon.