Letters to David Irving on this Website

Index

[see too Index to letters, 1998-1999 | 2000-01 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | current ]

• Paul Grubach points out that Jewish academics confirm the role of Hungary’s Jews in their Communist regime and secret police
• A puzzling photo of beheaded corpses, claimed to be proof of Barbarism at Auschwitz | turns out to have been taken a month after the war at an anatomical institute in Danzig
• Kevin Walsh asks, May 2009: “Was it right for you to pull out of Norway?”
• Alex G, South Carolina student, asks about the 1941 Rudolf Hess mission
• Jim Atkins asks about Julius Schaub, Hitler’s closest Old Guard friend and chief adjutant
• Stephen Combe asks about the German official commission investigating the Dresden death roll
• I was held by the Russians in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and made to build a gas chamber there; this is what I saw
• Frank Jaffe is outraged that we accuse Israel of exploiting the Bishop controversy
• Aidan McMahon has a question about the stenographic record from Hitler’s headquarters
• Jae A of Minnesota asks the sixty-four thousand dollar question: How did WW2 happen?
• Paul Grubach of Ohio believes that Christopher Browning disproves the basis of one smear by ‘Skunky’ Evans
• Avril Smith, of Sussex, has views of her own about the mess England is in
• Sam Dickson gives the low-down on the Southern Poverty Law Center, Morris Dees’ money-spinning scam to sucker the liberals
• Chris Poole hasn’t seen Richard J. Evans since he was at Forest School in the mid-sixties. “We were amazed that he became an Historian”
• Elizabeth G asks for an explanation on why university students can not be shown the full version of Triumph of the Will
• Sylvain Lavoie is curious about anomalies in the official life story of President Johnson
• Chris Meyer investigates: What were the prevailing outside light conditions at the time of Himmler’s death?
• Friedrich Stelzel of Munich relates what he witnessed as a Soviet prisoner in Auschwitz after the war
• I was held by the Russians in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and made to build a gas chamber there; this is what I saw
• Harry Prior, a US Army veteran, has discovered the books of David Irving, and thanks God for the Internet | and Canadian H. Hendel is puzzledby the unremitting attacks on Irving and Hitler’s War
• Donald Bady throws more light on the profound wisdom of the ineffably gullible ‘Skunky’ Evans about World War Two: a mysterious note found in a German unexploded bomb — allegedly
• Rare words of praise for Mr Irving’s talk in Lancashire on Jan 25
• Jonathan Josephs is studying the Lipstadt trial for his dissertation, and has two queries, with Mr Irving answers very fully
• Stanley Wertheim asks how anti-Semites survive, financially he means
• A reader asks about Fred Leuchter’s role in the Auschwitz controversy
• ‘Rod Splitcane’ thinks it wrong to publish photos of Hitler with children, given that lots of people were killed in WW2
• Brian Hurley of Australia inquires whether people can still get ‘jewed’
• Mike K challenges, what is the difference between racism and patriotism?
• Edward Marr asks, What was really Hitler’s part in the July 1934 murder of Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss?
• Jim Cain asks about a little known episode which led to a lengthy estrangement between Hitler and his naval C-in-C | and Jim Cain asks about a Jewish admiral whom Hitler ordered to be spared
• Mike Reisch has a comment on other WW2 American interrogation techniques
• Jodie W. tackles us on a key question of Hitler’s rule, the Bomb Plot
• William Stanzler has concerns about the Daily Express’s “Judea declares war” headline, and the role of statesman Chaim Weizmann |
• Kevin Walsh adds a footnote on how Zionists broke the Jewish boycott
• Fiona Lander was brought up on The Dawnchild, by David Irving’s mother, and hopes to buy an old copy again
• Peter Myers of Australia asks why there are subtle changes between the various editions of Hitler’s War
• Scott Dean asks why are so many individual Jewish fates discussed on BBC television programmes nowadays
• Gerhard Rohringer saw bookburning at first hand in post-war Austria
• Andrew Mathis leaps gallantly to the defence of that old rogue and paragon, Deborah Lipstadt: she is not a sneaker, he says
• John Papas finds that Mr Irving’s death-roll figures for Rotterdam are now generally accepted
• Michael Wutton comments on the proliference of anti-revisionist legislation in Europe
• Peter Gebert is worried about a revisionist version of a 1945 Red Army atrocity at Nemmersdorf in East Prussia
• Mike Munford comments on the growing number of Holocaust survivors
• N R Baines comments on a remark by David Irving in the witness box: ‘Sometimes I wish I could go Heathrow Airport and get on a ‘747 and take a ten hour flight and land back in England as it was, as it used to be’
• Simon Gunson of New Zealand provides reader input on the disappearance of SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler
• Ben Matthews has “just a few questions” about World War II
• Craig Williams asks if certain Goebbels diary entries proved that Hitler knew
• Paul Grubach has discovered a minor conformist concession about Himmler’s Posen speech of 1943
• Brian asks whether four famous writers were murdered for what they knew
• Anne Cavendish suspects that the latest message from al-Zawahari is a fake | Tom Stoneburner disagrees, and writes about the latest Bin Laden conspiracy theories
• Bernhard B. relates what his mother told him of her brief stay in the Auschwitz camp, Dec 1944
• Edvin Snores of Latvia asks about evidence that ‘Gestapo’ Mueller brokered a secret deal between the KGB and SS in 1938 | more on Vladimir Karpov’s fakery
• Paul Sweet comments on the British Army beating up Field Marshal Erhard Milch on his capture
• Scott Smith asks who Paid Deborah Lipstadt’s trial costs, and gets a very full answer
• Ken Cain of Georgia, USA, expresses his horror at the little-publicised bombing tactics used by the Allies in World War II
• Brian Carlson of Massachusetts wants to know when Mr Irving will speak at Harvard again
• Lancaster bomber officer Wing Commander Jim Wright asks, Were WW2 bomber aircrew heroes or not?
• John Gilchrist discovers why Amnesty International sat on its hands while Austria imprisoned David Irving for an opinion
• Pieter Wagener recalls the 1977 David Frost programme in which Mr Irving worsted Frost; exactly thirty years ago
• Anne Cavendish of Cambridge, England, has a few things to say about Elie Wiesel-speak: When I lie, I am telling the truth
• Harold Tittmann asks, Does she really exist – the Little Old Lady in Austria? (Yes)
• Dick Wanschura of Minnesota is keen to attend our next Real History weekend at Cincinnati | Rik Marsden of Australia tells Mr Irving to keep fighting for the truth
• Marisa Lorah of San Diego is a longtime fan of Mr Irving’s books
• Andy Parson wonders if Mr Irving will change anything in the light of ‘Skunky’ Evans’ criticisms. (He won’t)
• John LeMoine starts off nice about David Irving, then loses his way, or turns ugly as we say
• Paul Herman asks why Hitler never used his nerve gases
• Niall McDonagh wants to shake Mr Irving’s hand on regaining his ill-deprived freedom | Dr. Richard Martin is eager to read the free books he has downloaded
• A fan in India thanks this website for the free book downloads
• Stephen Jones is unimpressed by all the hype around the turgid works of Ian Kershaw
• Tamara Fojt of Maryland, USA, wants to hear David Irving speak
• Ashleigh W. of Australia asks questions on the aftermath of the Lipstadt trial and the lessons of History
• Milo of the U.K. is proud of being “common” and will therefore not now contribute to David Irving’s cause (not that he ever has)
• Al Kirke says: The Pearl Harbor cover up has been of epic proportions
• Augustinius asks some pertinent questions about the Wannsee conference of January 1942
• How to reply to a critic who still believes that Hitler gave the order | and Mr Irving’s reply
• Robert S. MacNamara and Curtis Le May agreed that WW2 bombing campaigns were criminal – but the Allies were the victors
• Simon Holloway’s father was scarred for life by the 1943 poison gas ship disaster at Bari
• Ian Kershaw’s new work on Hitler’s 1940 peace offer and how Churchill (foolishly) rejected it
• Charles D. Provan of Pennsylvania commends this website
• Malcolm Stumer wonders why ex-jailbird Lord Archer can visit Australia but Mr Irving can’t
• Did President Ahamdinejad ever threaten to ‘wipe Israel off the map’?
• Ira Dean began reading Irving’s books as a teenager
• A Sixth Former asks David Irving how to become an historian and writer
• Lynn Henty has heard Operation Sea Lion was just Hitler’s strategic bluff
• A.R.Mackenzie says that Mr Irving’s Vienna trial and imprisonment reminds him of Kafka
• Henrik Larsen writes from Denmark on our transcription of Admiral Ramsay’s diary – and the fight for Wikipedia’s entry on Mr Irving
• Ian McGowan asks why a Daily Telegraph journalist did not mention another famous historian-at-gunpoint incident

• Richard Santana (NZ) writes: I have no time for you or your ilk
• Rob Baer provides a different perspective on a gruesome video showing US helicopter action in Iraq: says it was justified
• Two readers commend David Irving for making his books available free as online downloads
• Jason Bulkeley has acquired valuable relics of Adolf Hitler’s uncomplicated long time friend, and ultimately wife, Eva Braun | and more
• Tom Strasnov tells Mr Irving that Polish cavalry did not attack tanks with lances, and he has got it all wrong about Heydrich’s popularity with the Czechs too | William Blair argues that newsreel films of Heydrich funeral proves Mr Irving was right
• “Jack Archer” applauds the verdict of the Lipstadt trial, and claims to have read the transcripts, calls Mr Irving a discredited historian | Sara Salzman finds fault in the Leuchter Report, since the forensic chemist involved has now reversed his findings
• Arthur Welles inquires whether a David Irving biography is planned
• Alasdair Spark contributes his two ha’porth on Anne Frank’s controversial use of ballpoint pens in writing her diary | Douglas Rodger knows something about the date that ballpoint pens came into general use | Is the study of Anne Frank relevant to modern historians? Aubrey Soper says yes
• Thomas Mullin of Danville, California, has read our Hitler biographies and is baffled at criticisms of author David Irving
• James Cain applauds our remarks on the New Orleans hurricane catastrophe | D. Durnin feels that our criticism of the Louisiana Governor’s appearance was uncalled-for | and Drew Campbell feels our remarks on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina are ill-judged
• Young Thomas K of England would like to correspond with a Waffen SS veteran
• Steve Cass is curious about Mr Irving’s views on a picture of the Oct 1941 execution of partisans in Minsk | Fowley identifies the condemned three | but Stergios suggests the identities maybe spurious | Various web sites identify Masha as an underage Jewish nurse | Galen Jokipii applauds Mr Irving’s views on the poise of the condemned | Neal Jackson wonders about the placard used on condemned partisans
• Arthur — of Colombia is grateful for the free downloads on Mr Irving’s website
• Jeremy Crawford draws obvious conclusions from the failures of the ‘eye witnesses’ in the Tube shoot-to-kill case
• Joh Pridige asks what happened at Hitler’s Nordhausen rocket factory | Aubrey Soper has a further comment on the photo
• Jeremy Crawford draws obvious conclusions from the failures of the ‘eye witnesses’ in the Tube shoot-to-kill case
• Australian Twelfth-Grader Jenna submits her essay on Holocaust deniers, and he suggests changes (pdf)
• Law Student John Scholes asks questions about the Lipstadt Trial and appeal, and gets answers, but is not satisfied
• B Bharat as a blind Master’s student in India, has praise for our free book-download program
• Gisela M Schon, a Jewish Californian, is beside herself with glee at the silencing of David Irving. He replies
• Rigley offers thanks to the website for our edited transcripts of Guy Liddell’s diary, they are amazing
• George Stern discovers Mr Irving’s 1981 book The War Between the Generals and is told what John Lukacs did to sink it
• Grondalski has been given a picture of Hitler in a cloak, and asks is it for real? (Yes)
• Kelly Snowden thinks that Mr Irving should be banned from speaking anywhere
• Peter Lemkin is following up on the whereabouts of SS General Hans Kammler, and asks about the lawyer Prof. Kaul
• Gerald Hartig asks about Google’s offensive site description
• Hugh Trellis writes that peepholes and gastight doors are not exclusive to homicidal “gas chambers”
• Gary Goodenow recalls a 1999 conversation in which Mr Irving opined Himmler had been murdered | Letter from John Ball | Thomas Blenk recalls British used (illegal) bio-weapon devised by Paul Fildes to kill Reinhard Heydrich
• Helene T. of Australia, twelfth Grader, asks about the fate of Gypsies in the Holocaust
• An inside view on the identity of Deep Throat, and who he wasn’t
• Don Bloser of Tasmania wants to download a free David Irving book, The Mare’s Nest, but prefers Zip compression
• Sarah O. a sixth grader, asks questions about the “Holocaust”
• John O’Rourke of Australia likes Mr Irving’s history of Churchill and Menzies in WW2
• Manfred Schön asks if Hitler really blamed the German people for the defeat of his Reich | Gary Goodenow suggests further sources
• David Hebden points to a little known document on a WW2 Nazi gas chamber at Minsk
• Don Freeman finds it hard to believe that Mr Irving’s website can need donations
• Brian Mueller, student in Guatemala, asks about Kristallnacht, and the ‘denialism’ aspect
• G. Rohringer has found another strange location for the Swastika emblem — on the cover of the murdered Tsarina’s diary
• A S Marques comments on a Berlin eyesore, Lea Rosh, Holocaust posters, and mountains of shoes; Mr Irving replies
• James Huddleston liked the reflection that many Annes in Dresden may have been of Anne Frank’s age, and written diaries
• Thomas Hartman spots something odd in the controversial new Hitler-film ‘Downfall’: a gas chamber door
• Albert Doyle asks about an ‘Auschwitz survivor’ who seems suspiciously naive, Stefan Polchlopek
• David Berrard enjoyed David Irving’s talk in Minneapolis, USA, wants him to return soon
• A New Zealand reader shows photos of Kramer’s belt, medals, and other memorabilia | The belt of “The Beast”
• Mariano Mora, a composer, wants a sound recording of the 1945 bombing of Dresden
• Henry Southwell of Cornwall visited the burial pits at KZ Bergen-Belsen in 1952
• Christopher M Palmer of Aldershot, England, says that nobody knew the Jewish cemeterary there existed
• Rufus L. writes about the castle in Austria where Göring was taken prisoner
• Simon Gunson writes on the fate of SS General Hans Kammler | Alan Heath has information on the killing of German SS officers in Czechoslovakia: Kammler may have been one
• A S Marques of Portugal has spotted how BBC producer Laurence Rees faked what a German ‘eye-witness of gas chambers’ actually said
• Andrew Ullman shares Deborah Lipstadt’s obsession with human excrement, and incites others to violence against Mr Irving
• Galen Jokipii is amused that it has taken six hundred ‘scholars’ to silence one David Irving
• Bob investigates the 500 academics who signed the petition to C-Span television
• Anna Le Blanc says reading Richard ‘Skunky’ Evans’ book on the Lipstadt trial made her read Irving’s books — so it did him a favour
• Mr A Marques of Lisbon has arguments about the 1945 Dresden death toll
• Grant Wild is puzzled that “they” admit the Chelmno gas van photos are not real
• Mike Reisch suggests that judges and prosecutors in the current wave of hate-trials against revisionists should be awarded a plaque in memory of the Nazi hanging judge Roland Freisler
• Frank Lowe Jr discusses the origins of the swastika on pre-Revolutionary Russian banknotes
• Mike of Reading University quotes his professor: all historians are embarrassed by Mr Irving; who replies in effect: sic transit Reading
• Did Duke of Hamilton have a secret meeting with Hess before the one recorded in the archives?
• Brian Hillman is outraged at the alleged neo Nazi desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Aldershot, and accuses Mr Irving of being a draft dodger
• The Supreme Court in Australia now filter out access to David Irving’s website; methods of foxing the filters [Filter has since been removed]
• Henry Barth challenges on ‘new documents’ the BBC claims to have discovered about Auschwitz. Huh!
• Anxious mum frets about this scurrilous, near-the-knuckle website; alas, she gives no name. (Being German, she would like to see it and Mr Irving banned.)
• Dr Christopher Price asks Mr Irving why he withdrew Lipstadt appeal evidence