Rolf Hochhuth, Germany’s most famous liberal playwright, smeared for supporting David Irving [and see early photos of Irving with Hochhuth]

• More kvelling from Germany, as Holocaust claims final famous victim Germany’s Jews allegedly force Rolf Hochhuth to eat crow: renowned playwright said to apologise for praising David Irving as serious historian | Fury of Die Zeit that Hochhuth backed Irving | Mr Irving answers Zeit lie | Hochhuth again publicly backs him. Outrage of Central Council of Jews. Berlin Morgenpost (of the Springer press) guns for playwright over his forty-year friendship with David Irving  | Herr Spiegel calls Hochhuth an “intellectual arsonist” (in German)
• The Hochhuth “scandal” Mr Irving recalls early friendship with Rolf Hochhuth: staged a lunch with Hitler’s secretary and the leftist playwright (in German)
• Setback for traditional enemies Renowned playwright Hochhuth denies he apologised for friendship with Mr Irving: Outrage of Central Council of Jews: news.de Streit zwischen Zentralrat und Hochhuth geht weiter | Hochhuth: «Der Autor des “Stellvertreters” entschuldigt sich nicht» | N24.de Keine Entschuldigung von Hochhuth  (all in German; more below)
• Got him Rolf Hochhuth forced to apologise yesterday on German TV for controversial defence of David Irving; Axel Springer press attacks on him continue | Early articles and interviews in Junge Freiheit (all in German) | Nouvel Observateur on Hochhuth “apology” for friendship with Mr Irving : “David Irving a été condamné à plusieurs reprises par la justice, notamment en Grande-Bretagne et en Allemagne, pour insultes et diffamations à l’égard des morts et propos négationnistes.” (In French. David Irving has been sentenced many times by British and German courts …” Uh, not so.)
• No Mercy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung journalist Eva Menasse shows Rolf Hochhuth ‘Keine Gnade’ for having defended Mr Irving | in German; and (in English) Mr Irving’s commentary on this Jewish journalist and flibbertigibbet
• Speak out at your peril German publisher dumps autobiography of playwright Rolf Hochhuth for supporting Mr Irving
• ‘Ich habe Verständnis für Rolf’ – David Irving über den 8. Mai und seine Freundschaft mit Schriftsteller Rolf Hochhuth
• The smearmongers Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, branded as anti-semite for 40 year friendship with David Irving, defends himself in Switzerland

Dresden, RAF saturation bombing of in 1945: 60th anniversary

• Shoulda told us earlier Dresden attack saved a Jew, says Berliner Zeitung (a Springer newspaper)  | Dresden newspaper points out that David Irving wrote to The Times in 1996 correcting his own error on air raid casualties (in German) | His commentary now (English)
• What’ve they been smokin’? Hitler and the Nazi leadership may have known beforehand about 1945 Dresden air raid, and done nothing to save the city, ‘according to new evidence from Germany’
• All Leftists Germany appoints “commission of historians” to investigate Dresden death toll | Flashback What The Times reported, gloating about Dresden, in Februar 1945
• Flashback: “The Allied air raid on Dresden on Feb. 13-14 killed 300,000 persons,” reported Stars & Stripes, May 5, 1945
• David Irving strikes back at billionaire UK publisher Bloomsbury (“Harry Potter”) Co. for their “Dresden” author’s insults
• Exclusive picture gallery: 60 YEARS AGO, THE BRITISH FIRE RAID ON DRESDEN KILLED A HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS IN TWO HOURS | What The Times reported
• Dresden too? Illinois Jews outraged at proposal to make students study all holocausts, not just “The One”
• Wash your mouths out Germany’s conformist politicians denounce NPD deputies in Saxony for walking out of a parliamentary debate on Auschwitz and talking of Dresden; call for their arrest for ‘racist thinking’

Swastikas, finding them in usual places

• Tony Walker tells us that the US Army National Guard once used the swastika as a badge emblem — then came WW2
• Outrage. Outrage; oh, outrage Website expert Eric Müller reveals that Russian banknotes issued in 1917 by the Provisional Government featured a hidden swastika emblem »»»»»
• NY Jew’s ex-wife arrested, spray-painted swastikas all over Brooklyn and Queens
• Prince Harry refuses to go to Auschwitz | We just hope that nobody remembers that his grandfather Prince Philip’s four sisters were all in Nazi Germany during WWII | and David Irving’s commentary | British Royal family links to Hitler’s Germany
• The new Little Hitlers Germans demand Europe-wide ban on use or display of swastika, Nazi symbols  — and we thought they lost WWII
• The crooked cross Hindus in Britain have started a campaign to ‘redeem’ their Aryan swastika from its Nazi past
• Tactless House Flag of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, ca 1951, in UK National Maritime Museum archives (right)
• Ultra sensitive New Zealanders (one-tenth of one percent, the usual suspects) protest at swastika artwork
• Right: An unusual UK Woodwork Show entry 2005 seems to have escaped closer scrutiny

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