David Irving's index to items on Adolf Hitler

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Index

Documents on the Life and Times of Adolf Hitler

Picture gallery a soldier's photo album of life at Adolf Hitler's HQ, purchased at an American auction

The August-September 1939 private letters and diaries of Hitler's army liaison officer Nikolaus von Vormann
Documentation - Herbert Backe: Hitler's food minister - extracts from his letters and private papers, provided by his widow Ursula
Documentation - a March 1938 Table Talk of Hitler: Es kam anschließend an das Mittagessen beim Führer die Sprache auf Vererbungsprobleme | facsimile (in German; pdf, 320 Kb)
The letters of wealthy German steel industrialist Fritz Thyssen in exile, to Hitler and other top Nazis, published in Life Magazine, New York, Apr 29, 1940, pp. 11 et seq.; he believes Hitler "innocent of the developments that turned National Socialism into its very opposite" (p. 12).

A LIFE photographer took this picture inside Hitler's underground Berlin bunker in July 1945. It had the kind of door that Deborah Lipstadt, Prof. Robert Jan Van Pelt and Mr Justice Gray all agreed was conclusive evidence of a gas chamber. We think Hitler should have been told. . .

Interrogation [by Capt O Norden] of Hitler's long time housekeeper Anni Winter on Nov 6, 1945, presumably by Nuremberg prosecutors: 9pp in German | same in English (pdf files, 1.4MB)
David Irving: Interview with Prof Dr Dr Ernst-Günther Schenck at Klagenfurt, Austria, May 11-12, 1982
Hitler's Table Talk online. The original Weidenfeld English translation by Norman Cameron and R.H. Stevens, introduced and with a new Preface by H.R. Trevor-Roper - the accurate contemporary record of Hitler's remarks during lunch and dinner at his headquarters, 1941-1944, as taken down by Bormann's adjutant Heinrich Heim
From the Irving Collection: The secret diary of Hitler's stenographer Karl Thöt, 1942-1945
Facsimile from Irving Collection: Hitler apologises in a handwritten letter to Generaloberst von Fritsch, Mar 30, 1938 (Moscow archives)
From the Irving collection: Private letters from Hitler's headquarters, 1944-1945, written by Fegelein's adjutant Johannes Göhler | private letters written by Alwin-Broder Albrecht, Hitler's personal adjutant (1939-1945) from August 1, 1944 to April 1945
A Doctor's diary quotes Hitler's views on Führer-Biographers, Sept 1944 : only a young Englishman... | The whole Dr Erwin Giesing diary 1944-1945 (pdf format)
Hitler's four female secretaries and their characters (in German)
Himmler's Gestapo seized files on Hitler's crazy cousins - one of whom was terminated in 1940 (in German)
Fragmentary notes on the conversations with Frl. Christa Schroeder during a drive with her to Austria and back, April 20-21, 1974
In secret pep talk Hitler tells his western commanders on March 20, 1944 that the Allied invasion of France will come in Normandy (in German)
US Army interrogation of Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, July 1945
A Pilot's Diary of Hitler's June 1940 flights to the frontline in France, and visit to Paris after the German victory: Flug an die Front (in German)
A much photographed little girl holding Hitler's hand was his welcome guest, although she was of Jewish blood

Moscow releases KGB and SMERSH documents on burial of Hitler: Cremated Remains Were Scattered Over Elbe
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
Box 51, David Irving's entire research on Hitler and the Jewish Problem, is missing: an inventory of its contents
David Irving's assistant Elke Fröhlich interviews Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder in 1971
Late in 1977 the Institut für Zeitgeschichte director Prof Dr Martin Broszat published a virulent 37-page attack on David Irving's biography, Hitler's War, in their quarterly journal (pdf, in German); they refused to publish a reply
Hitler's music collection contained works by Jews. No surprises there, except for people who still believe he was a dyed-in-the-wool anti-semite | David Irving reminisces about KGB officer who looted Hitler's music collection, Lev Bezymenski
Hitler's secretaries (dossier)
Jim Cain asks about the destruction of Hitler's mountainside home, the Berghof
David Irving, a Radical's Diary: Exhibition orders closure of his stand at Warsaw Book Fair under pressure | David Irving to sue Warsaw Book Fair company for breach of contract | He runs a critical eye over the East Prussian bunker headquarters of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler Mr Irving inspects Hitler's East Prussia headquarters The Wolf's Lair | Full report
Recent David Irving activities in Poland on film: Himmler's secret headquarters | Remains of Hitler's HQ The Wolf's Lair | Visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau sites | Private discussion in Warsaw
Hitler "drew characters from Disney's famous cartoon movie, Snowhite and The Seven Dwarfs" - In this website's expert view they are not by Hitler

VERY RARE: HITLER'S WALKING STICK sold privately at $5,750 in England, is now in USA
WE are also selling a friend's collection of memorabilia from Adolf Hitler and his men, including photographs, albums,
and other memorabilia and 640 unpublished Original Photos of Ernst Röhm (below), the SA Stabschef, 1933-1934, and other top Nazis (now updated)

Focal Point acts as agents for the sale of the following Adolf Hitler items: his walking stick [Gehstock] | photos 1 and 2 and 3 | news about Hitler and Eva Braun bone relics | paintings: Wüst, Bechstein, Troost, Pfarrer, Netherlands, Montreal, Cullis, Bijl, Astroman | Ernst Röhm original photos - See the lying articles about these in the British and German press, e.g. Berliner Zeitung Irving eröffnet Nazi-Ebay (incidentally their owners Ullstein published most of Mr Irving's books: see below).

Hitler didn't escape, says Russian Center for Forensic Medicine - issues an unusual denial |
Hitler: Ashes were scattered in the Elbe River Moscow releases KGB and SMERSH documents: Cremated Remains Were Scattered Over Elbe
Seeking brief place in history, Bavarian Mayor revokes honorary citizenship of A. Hitler
Moscow Dorms Shut Before Hitler Birthday and The Guardian
Forgot his gun? British spy's son releases secret July 1939 Hitler photos MI6 agent Charles Turner took them at Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
New picture gallery: high quality photos of Hitler's Berlin Chancellery and Bunker
David Irving's Radical's Diary: Mr Irving may offer Hitler's body parts for sale [on which see Daily Mail's libellous spin]|
Bad, bad guy- Controversial celebrations underway for "Norway's Nazi outcast" Knut Hamsun: Great poet, won Nobel prize; but wrote nice obit for Hitler
Report on the free-speech German trial of Frau Haverbeck (who wrote positively about Hitler). Frau Haverbeck hat äußerlich völlig ruhig und selbstsicher den Gerichtssaal betreten (German text, Mr Irving's commentary in English)
Was Catholic Hitler "Anti-Christian"? On the Trail of Bogus Quotes
Bonne-bouche: David Irving's assistant Elke Fröhlich interviews Hitler's secretary Christa Schroeder in 1971 (in German) | Hitler's secretaries (our new website dossier)
Flashback: Mr Irving's Interview with Artur Axmann in 1991 about the faked Hitler Bunker 1945 Conversations | From David Irving's memoirs: François Genoud and Hitler's Table Talk | Mr Irving's 1971 interview with the mysterious François Genoud in Geneva. Genoud on how he obtained Hitler's Table Talk
More documents from David Irving's archive: The top-secret draft of the Nazi High Command war diary 1942-3 - its content was changed after the war to denigrate Hitler | The secret diary of Hitler's stenographer Karl Thöt, 1942-1945 - WHOLE DIARY HAS NOW BEEN POSTED | Reader's letter | Last 20 days of Third Reich as described by Schwerin von Krosigk in lecture in Ludwigsburg (in German)
More documents from Mr Irving's archive: A Pilot's Unpublished Diary of Hitler's June 1940 flights to the frontline in France: Flug an die Front (in German) | Mr Irving's chat with Hitler's secretary in 1974 | In secret pep talk Hitler tells his western commanders on March 20, 1944 that the Allied invasion of France would come in Normandy (in German) | Himmler's Gestapo seized files on Hitler's crazy cousins - one of whom was terminated in 1940 (in German)| Hitler's four female secretaries and their characters (in German) | More original documents: Letters exchanged between Field Marshal von Rundstedt (right) and his family 1940-1943| 1944-1945 diary and papers of Dr Erwin Giesing, Hitler's ENT specialist
World safe again US Police take Adolf Hitler Campbell, 3, and sisters from parents - Next time try Barack-Hussein-Obama Campbell | ShopRite in New Jersey refuses to bake birthday cake named for Adolf Hitler Campbell, age three. We're missing the Christmas spirit here | Walmart then steps in | Adolf Hitler dad says swastikas out, holocaust happened, names stays
Profile in The Independent (London): David Irving: 'I'm Hitler's biographer': His take on Nazi Germany has made enemies [viel Feind' viel Ehr'] | Hindu Times | Johann Hari's article gets under a lot of skins - traditional enemies hint that Mr Irving invented the famous quote from Hitler's doctor's diary: Anonymous | Daniel Finkelstein of The Times | Wartime document from the Irving archives: A Doctor's diary quotes Hitler's views on Führer-Biographers, Sept 1944: "only a young Englishman..."
Hitler's bad habits revealed in documents - other habits not mentioned: invading countries, "killing millions", love of opera
The dam is bursting - TV show host Eva Herman shakes German TV execs by speaking truth about Hitler - is muzzled instantly || North German TV station fires Eva Hermann, talk show host, for praising Nazi family policies in Hitler era, especially the esteem in which mothers were held: "That's too much!" scream the muckspreaders: NDR fires Eva on the spot, after twenty years [in German] | BBC report | and the International Herald Tribune. AWPOW again - are we powerful or what!
AWPOW: Are we powerful or what? Traditional enemies muzzling Free Speech in Australia. Barry Cohen whinges about Foxtel having shown a Hitler documentary scripted by David Irving | Foxtel network pulls plug on documentary -- "acutely embarrassed"
Nazi sticker book, with pictures of Adolf Hitler skiing, up for auction - should fetch around $200, not worth more
Salt Lake Another stolen Hitler item recovered by sheriff's office
More documents released from David Irving's archives: Facsimile: Hitler apologises in a handwritten letter to Generaloberst von Fritsch, Mar 30, 1938 (Moscow archives) | Private letters from Hitler's headquarters, 1944-1945, written by Fegelein's adjutant Johannes Göhler | private letters written by Alwin-Broder Albrecht, Hitler's personal adjutant (1939-1945) (in German)
Israeli newspaper: Document found pinning blame for World War II on Joseph Stalin, not Hitler - Dangerous stuff: criminal offence to say this in Germany
Hitler's fan mail reveals a 'beloved Fuhrer'
Not a good idea? Hitler returns to front page as Nazi-era papers hit the streets of Germany | Panicky Bavarian Government bans these reproductions (in German)
More Nazi war crimes Photo archive created on Hitler's orders could help art restorers: "Thousands of colour photographs commissioned by Adolf Hitler are released on the internet, bringing back to life many of Germany's lost art treasures."
Sunday Times: Hitler's secret library - Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare - these were the works that he adored | The Economist on Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped his Life: "He was better known for burning books than reading them" - RAF Bomber Command was pretty good at burning books too, we hear | Lev Bezymenski: controversy over Soviet era historian | Hitler's music collection contained works by Jews. No shocks there, except for people who still believe he was a dyed-in-the-wool anti-semite | David Irving reminisces about KGB officer who looted Hitler's music collection
Veteran auctions globe he took from from Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" (what would George Bush's globe be worth in 60 years' time?) | Valkyrie Producers May Be Sued Over Hitler Globe; Copyright Law Gone Mad | New York Post |
The Mystery of Hitler's Globe Goes Round and Round -- Hitler's globe is missing
David Irving, A Radical's Diary: Peter Longerich now agrees that Heinrich Himmler did not inform Hitler what he was doing.
WW2: MI5 rejected Eddie Chapman's suicide bid to kill Hitler
David Irving, a Radical's Diary: a much photographed little girl holding Hitler's hand was his welcome guest, although she was of Jewish blood | another Edelweiss photo of Hitler with a child, Eva | Letter: 'Rod Splitcane' thinks it wrong to publish these photos, given that lots of people were killed in WW2 | spot the faking
A coming new work by Ian Kershaw on Hitler's 1940 peace offer and how Churchill (vaingloriously) rejected it | updated | plus Mr Irving's commentary | Hitler-historian Sir Ian Kershaw retires early from Sheffield University and academic life. Refusal to answer questions. Born 1943, had not reached age of compulsory retirement | World's leading Hitler Historian Sir Ian Kershaw to honour Holocaust dead - Kershaw admits his knowledge of German is not so hot | Paul Grubach reviews Ian Kershaw's new book on Hitler and the Holocaust | The Observer and The Times review Prof. Ian Kershaw's Adolf Hitler biography | Conformism brutally rewarded: A Knighthood for Kershaw | | Historian Ian Kershaw quits as American TV calls his Book on Hitler too boring'
Iranian TV: UK, Russia depict 1943 Nazi Plot to Kill Big Three (In fact: Adolf Hitler secretly forbade such assassinations)
Latest from Hollywood's hate factory: Hitler to get Pulp Fiction treatment in Tarantino Movie "Inglorious Bastards" - Sure to win some Oscars
Israeli expert considers Hitler a Military Genius | Hitler's 'suicidal urge' prolonged war by three years, German historians say - These craven conformists would say that, wouldn't they: But his heroic armies also kept Stalin's hordes away from western Europe, and saved civilisation, some might add | German official history, 10 vols., examines Germans' WW2 fanaticism
Must be good then - Russians ban Hitler's Table Talk, one of the most reliable sources on Nazi leader's thinking, edited by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hitler planned 'Big Brother' style television to broadcast Nazi propaganda
Interview: Hitler was the perfect boss: Former maid breaks her silence on the 'charming' dictator
Film crewman's disrespect for Hitler traitors Tom Cruise furious with crew member who farted during a minute's otherwise-silence (lucky to escape jail for that in Germany)
Last member of failed 1944 plot to kill Hitler, or so he claimed, dies - Baron Philipp von Boeselager dies at 90 | Australian | Telegraph - so much plotting, but not one traitor brave enough to use a pistol | | P rivate diary provides further information on suicide of General von Tresckow, one of the July 20, 1944 German army traitors | Family betrayed Germany, now: Grandson of anti-Hitler plotter seeks restitution "We have suffered so much", says aristocrat | Spearheaded by Rolf Hochhuth: Berlin honors would-be Hitler assassin Georg Elser - the little carpenter who nearly succeeded where all the cowardly, bumbling General Staff officers miserably failed
James Bond author Ian Fleming urged appeasing Adolf Hitler, criticised the warmongers as "the slaughterhouse brigade" |
David Aaronovitch finds that Author Nicholson Baker thinks Britain should have made peace with Hitler (guess what Aaronovich thinks)
German fire team says sorry over Hitler quote
Woman to sell Hitler painting at £7,000 loss because she hated it: Given it by her son
Or is it Kujau's? The art of Adolf Hitler (with a little help from the Chapman brothers) When the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a series of paintings by Adolf Hitler for £115,000, many questioned the morality of paying for works produced by a brutal dictator |
The Guardian's praise for Hitler's taste in art: Jonathan Jones: Help! I've got the same taste in art as Hitler! (Charles Saatchi, eat your heart out)
Haaretz in 1932: Hitler makes better impression than expected - Haaretz - Israel News |
Sold at auction, $19,000: Handwritten notes of William Randolph Hearst on meeting Hitler, 1934: "Hitler certainly is an extraordinary man..."
British Prime Minister [not Blair] praised Hitler In 1936 private letter British prime minister Stanley Baldwin praises Adolf Hitler as 'a remarkable man', talks of his 'great achievements'
Twenty-five years ago on April 25 1983 David Irving exposed the fake Hitler diaries to a shocked Hamburg press conference | Gerd Heidemann, the man who "found" the diaries, is in poverty
David Irving, a Radical's Diary: Two Poles offer me a suitcase full of Hitler Documents. But Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge told me she typed the famous testament straight into her machine -- there was no "first draft"
US Army interrogation of Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, July 1945 |
Still trying. Die Welt article "proves" Hitler was behind the 1938 Night of Broken Glass (in German). NB: In 1992 David Irving first found the Goebbels diaries of that night. His verdict: Unconvinced. They must try harder
Daily Mail: Pictures of "feared Hitler henchman" to be sold - Viktor Lutze. Lutze was a nonentity who replaced Röhm in 1934, and died when the car his daughter was driving crashed in May 1943. David Irving exclusively used Lutze's diary when writing Hitler's War |
ZDF website cautiously shows dramatic colour photos of Adolf Hitler's triumphal tour of Austria seventy years ago: lucky not to be prosecuted under Austria's Banning Law
Daily Telegraph "unseen pictures" of Adolf Hitler in Brussels - but gets the date wrong |
When Adolf Hitler paid his respects at the Vimy Ridge Memorial in 1940
German Lawmakers Mark Nazi "Destruction of Democracy" Only one Parliamentarian spoke against Hitler's Enabling Act in 1933. The law allowed Hitler to rule without parliament and set up a Homeland Security Central Agency, and his police to make arrests without warrant. It was his Patriot Act
Berlin Tussaud's version: Adolf Hitler finally returns to Berlin - in London's Tussaud's we last saw his effigy hidden behind a glass anti-spit screen | Man rips head off the Hitler waxwork | More outrage, but world still safe: Madame Tussauds' Adolf Hitler waxwork causes outrage in Berlin | Berlin Tussaud's version: Adolf Hitler finally returns to Berlin - in London's Tussaud's we last saw his effigy hidden behind a glass anti-spit screen | Man rips head off the Hitler waxwork
Tourists keen on guided Hitler tours of Munich
Nazi auction of Hitler pic stirs outrage in New Zealand | Jewish leader fails to prevent New Zealand auction of Hitler photo
In case you missed it 64 years ago: German newsreel of April 20, 1944 celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday | "Sexual disorders led to Hitler's rise to power": Moscow historian Leonid Mlechin discusses why Hitler remains such a puzzling and prominent historical figure
Oughtta be a law against it - Outrage at Archibald Hitler portrait
Possessions of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to be sold by Lincolnshire auctioneer | and in earlier auction news: photo album of Adolf Hitler's young lover Angela "Geli" Raubal was expected to fetch more than £2,000 | Anti-Defamation League profited from auction sale of "Hitler's shotgun" (PS: Hitler was a dedicated opponent of hunting) | Hitler's walking stick offered for sale - sold through our website for $6750 | The envy of a humble journalist: Nietzsche and his Nazi sister - trivia: Hitler used N's walking stick
Outrage, as Hitler dolls go on sale in Ukraine | story later found to be a hoax
Pensioner sues police over damage to her signed picture of Hitler
Outrage of Australia blame-deniers over "pro-Hitler school project"
'It's time to print Hitler's Kampf' - Using diverse arguments, German historians campaign to end ban on Hitler's Mein Kampf: copyright expires in seven years anyway | German Jewish leader backs idea, demands "annotations" (and cuts too?) | Austrian filming of parody of Mein Kampf begins: Jewish script depicts Hitler as penniless, bumbling, unsophisticated (what else?)
Death of Hitler Daily Telegraph story: Dental detective work gets to the root of Hitler mystery: Using forensic dentistry and computer imaging, scientists have proved that the charred remains of Hitler found by Red Army soldiers in Berlin were those of the Führer | Sunday Times version of same story | Apr 2000: Adolf Hitler's skull went on display in Moscow, along with documents revealing what happened to the dictator's remains after they were seized by Soviet troops in 1945 | Elena Rzhevskaya reminisces about carrying a piece of Hitler's skull around in Berlin
New picture gallery: high quality photos of Hitler's Berlin Chancellery and Bunker
Reader's letter about the Schlegelberger memorandum: a critic still believes that Hitler gave the order | and Mr Irving's reply

Hitler HQ in years of triumph: Soldier's photo album - Picture gallery - Part I (right):

Part II: This gallery depicts a worm's-eye view of life with the platoon. Erwin Rommel (Kdt of the FHQu from 1938 to early 1940) is visible in two of the 120 pictures: