Index to Readers’ Letters 2004

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

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• John Miller asks if the published diaries of General Gerhard Engel, Hitler’s army adjutant are genuine, and gets a full reply
• Paul J.M. Sweet shares our views on Prof Richard ‘Skunky’ EvansRoad directions to the site of Hermann Göring’s (now demolished) fabulous hunting lodge, Carinhall
• Arturo Ramirez praises Mr Irving’s book on the feud between Eisenhower and Montgomery
• Korham Gulgun inquires about stories on a Peter Stahl website that Mr Irving fakes documents
• Serge Romanov is unimpressed by the much vaunted Yad Vashem website database on Holocaust survivor statistics
• William B disagrees on America’s recent military adventures: Nobody profits from a badly run war
• Oxford undergraduate asks if it is safe to reference Mr Irving’s books in his submissions
• Peter Eastman delves into the history of an ancestor who served with Mr Irving’s father at Jutland and in Antarctic discovery expeditions
• Marcos de Escobar of Rio de Janeiro agrees with Mr Irving on the immigrant invasion of England
• Brian Carlson shares Radical’s Diary view on the Iraq war
• Doron G of Los Angeles lectures Mr Irving on the gentle graces and great virtues of Israel and its inhabitants
• Judith Stefchak of Alaska thinks Mr Irving is a bigger liar than the Australia ASSHOL “Bernhard Holstein”
• Aubrey Soper has better information on the May 1945 loss of the German liner Cap Arcona
• Aubrey Soper argues that Iraqi farmers are fair game for helicopter gunships | and he still insists he is right
• Barry Smith has further comment on Mr Irving’s motives in offering to settle the Lipstadt action out of court | Brian Hillman thinks the two offers were spurious | Richard Santana believes that Mr Irving wanted to make a killing from the trial
• George Vel asks questions about David Olère’s alleged ‘eye-witness’ sketches of Auschwitz | but David Hebden suggests that Olère really was at Auschwitz | Oskar Feder offers three more of ‘Auschwitz survivor’ Olère’s pictures of life at the camp | Frank Lowe fills in the details on the “SS doctor” sketch | RLM comments on more Olère errors
• Critique of Auschwitz photo of two women leading a troop of kids ‘to the gas chambers’
• Where did US official report on 9/11 give facts on al-Qaida’s anti-Israel prime motivation?
• Stewart Donovan expresses uncontrolled glee at what he sees as Mr Irving’s misfortunes
• Mike Kilroy has comments on Albert Camus and the Lipstadt trial
• Yannis Natsinas asks what led to the death of Gauleiter Gustav Simon
• Swedish student Henrik asks for sources on Hitler’s ideology
• Britt and Keri Singleton comment on a gun-camera video from the attack on Afghanistan
• Frank Lowe on Höss’s testimony on Gassings at Auschwitz
• Leor Leon of Israel rather likes the works of Mr Irving
• Ivan Brkich asks important questions about the Holocaust on behalf of students at his Australian college
• George Brennan has some questions about Holocaust history
• Gene Mangrum disagrees that the 9/11 hijackers were intrepid
• Were Japanese steamers were ordered home before Pearl Harbor
• William Sterling Jr wants Mr Irving to suppress opinions about ethnic groups
• Tom Stoneburner doubts there are many real anomalies about 9/11
• ‘Concerned citizen’ Barry Smith implores New Zealand’s minister of immigration to keep Mr Irving out
• Joanna Sanders of New Zealand has now decided to obtain all Mr Irving’s books
• Uri K, of Moscow, Russia, speaks up for the embattled oligarchs, suggesting that things are not always criminal as they seem
• Michael Deutsch of New Zealand would discourage Mr Irving from visiting “his” country
• Maxine Fisher finds Goebbels biography patiently researched, without the customary bias and bitterness
• Brian Hillman accuses Mr Irving of anti-Semitism in his comments on the Russian oligarchs
• A Texas fireman, describes how his team did find relics of the Columbia space shuttle
• Peter Wakefield Sault thinks the story of Mossad looting an ancient Iraqi library is apocryphal
• James Roberts has a suggestion for preventing a terrorism cover-up the next time
• David Irving’s mother wrote a famous children’s book, The Dawnchild: a reader inquires
• James Huddleston recalls how Mr Irving’s book on 1956 uprising gave Hungarian people hope
• Robert Barnaby asks if Sonderkommando men wore a dogtag?
• Richard Hughey comments that Mr Irving ‘took the Fifth’ in the PQ.17 libel trial in 1970
• Dr Andrew Mathis accuses Mr Irving of endorsing thuggish behaviour
• Clint Swift thinks that Prof Richard Evans is so cool, compared with the [expletive] Mr Irving
• Erwin Maruna asks about a rogue reference to Mr Irving in the alleged memoirs of Nicholas von Below
• Churchill’s historic phrase ‘Iron Curtain’: goes back to Signal, 1943, says Alex Zöller
• Hater Bradley R. Gilchrist thinks that Mr Irving should be ‘cleansed’
• Glennon W. Simmons disagrees with Mr Irving’s remarks on US troops in Afghanistan | and an immediate reply
• Ron Kurtz reveals Churchill’s unlikely source for the historic phrase ‘Iron Curtain’
• Gonzalo Baeza asks what we think of Peter Padfield’s biography of Himmler
• Lewis Graham says ‘Hitler’ was great; when do we get to finish ‘Churchill’?
• Gregory Rose asks for Mr Irving’s postion on the Einsatz Reinhardt camps, and gets not much of an answer
• Chinese expatriate Sissi Wu has praise for the battle for Real History
• John D Boyle of Washington state takes issue with this website’s portrayal of the war in Iraq
• Prof Philip Kirstein warns that the growing censorship of academics suggests a New McCarthyism
• Vydyanath writes from India about Mr Irving’s books which he is downloading free, and asks about Mein Kampf
• The Holocaust: James Cowell asks for good archival sources which answer the question, what did the German people know, and when did they know it?
• Bob Liepa asks about Hitler’s pen: did it have the Star of David?
• John Smith asks questions, not always answered
• Douglas Rees spotted the General-Patton-and-his-niece story in The War Between the Generals
• Charles Ziembo is impressed by Churchill’s War, and urges Mr Irving to keep on writing
• Alex asks about new editions of Churchill’s War, Goebbels, and other David Irving titles
• Barry Klazura likes Churchill’s War, dislikes Hitler
• Trina McCandless has hope: she hopes Mr Irving drowns
• A schoolteacher in South Africa would like advice on textbooks on World War Two
• What is the truth about Churchill and the 1940 raid on Coventry?
• Frank Lowe Jr comments on Dr Christopher Browning’s interview on the Final Solution ‘Mel Fowler has read a 1990 speech by David Irving to the Clarendon Club
• Colin McInnis asks how many Soviet casualties there really were in WW2
• Bob Johnson and Juliusz Jablecki ask questions about entries in the Goebbels diaries, used by conformist historians writing about the Holocaust
• Sean Buhr asks what happened to Hitler’s chief henchman Martin Bormann?
• Pat of New York has spotted an odd thing about French news bulletins from Iraq: Is Washington rationing what dumb US viewers get to see?
• Wilma Kamp of San Diego, California, asks for our readers’ help on jewellery attributed to Eva Braun
• Sheila Lynn bought a used copy of an Irving book tossed out by a US Army library
• A Reader visited Edinburgh bookstores asking for David Irving books, but is told that such ‘anti-Semitic’ material is not sold there
• Dick Earley comments on the ratio of Jews who fought for Germany in WW1 to WW2
• A Reader has advice to Windows users on how to download the free books
• Kelly Snowden can’t believe that anybody can find the constant whining about the Holocaust is boring
• Why didn’t these 735 Norwegian Jews, among them my grand parents, my uncles, aunts and cousins, return to Norway?
• On the Zyklon B controversy: there is no darker place than the mind of a High Court Judge
• Do you know of any photos of Eva Braun’s home?
• Sylvie Auguste, French writer has questions about Waldemar Fegelein
• Ramanujan asks Did Truman know Hiroshima was a civilian target