David Irving[Photo by David Gamble for The Independent on Sunday]The Blunders of
Professor Eberhard Jäckel

After David Irving exposed Jäckel’s incompetence as an historian, Jäckel, professor of History at the University of Stuttgart, conducted a reckless crusade against him

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Professor Eberhard Jäckel
- David Irving issues a 1977 challenge to Prof. Eberhard Jäckel on Hitler’s responsibility for the Final Solution
- Correspondence in 1978 between David Irving and Professor Jäckel on the missing Schlegelberger document, which Jäckel shortly obtained from newly opened Bundesarchiv files.
- David Irving issues a handbill on November 7, 1983 announcing that he will attend a lecture by Jäckel in London.
- David Irving challenges Jäckel in 1984 over forged “Hitler” documents published in his volume, Adolf Hitler, Sämtliche Aufzeichungen. They turned out to have been forged by Konrad Kujau, who also forged the Hitler Diaries which Jäckel authenticated: on which see Robert Harris, Selling Hitler (London, 1986).
- Jäckel’s forgery of a 1946 (post-war) Hamburg railroad photograph to illustrate his May 1990 television series on the wartime Holocaust, Der Tod, ein Meister aus Deutschland
- David Irving writes a sarcastic letter to Professor Jäckel about the forgery, and recommends he research in archives rather than railway hostelries in future
- Jäckel’s vicious attempt to smear David Irving in two essays published as David Irving’s Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected
- Essay: “‘Innocence’ of Hitler”

- Essay: “Irving, Hitler and the Murder of the Jews”

- When the Victoria (British Columbia) newspaper Times Colonist prints a review of this book (Jan. 2, 1994) David Irving sends an angry reader’s letter
- Jäckel states in 1998 Book by Holocaust Museum, Washington, that until David Irving’s Hitler’s War in 1977 there was no real Historical Analysis of Holocaust
- Jäckel accused of Holocaust Denial: “streitet sich mit Sinti und Roma
- Der Stuttgarter Historiker Eberhard Jäckel, (links) Mitglied des Fachberater-Gremiums der neuen TV Sendereihe “Holokaust” (ZDF) Okt 2000
Some information re. Prof. Eberhard Jäckel
at http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/uni-kurier/uk82_83/personalia/p84.html
Stuttgarter unikurier Nr. 82/83 September 1999
Ein klassischer Gelehrter mit Öffentlichkeitswirkung: Eberhard Jäckel zum 70. Geburtstag
Excerpt: Am 29. Juni feierte einer der profiliertesten Professoren der Universität Stuttgart seinen 70. Geburtstag: der Historiker Eberhard Jäckel. Dreißig Jahre lang, bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1997, leitete er die Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte und hat in dieser Zeit wesentlich dazu beigetragen, der Stuttgarter Geschichtswissenschaft ein hohes internationales Ansehen zu erwerben. |
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