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Letters to David Irving on this Website

 

UNLESS CORRESPONDENTS ask us not to, this Website will post selected letters which it receives, and invite open debate. NO CONCLUSIONS should be drawn about the opinions of either Focal Point Publications or David Irving from the publication of these letters

 

 
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

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