The St Martin’s Press Scandal
THE FAMOUS New York firm of publishers, St Martin’s Press, which had previously published several books by David Irving and requested him to provide jacket-puffs to promote the works of their other authors, contracted to publish his biography,
Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich in April 1996.
SMP came under savage assault from the Anti-Defamation League [ADL] in February 1996, and their chairman Tom McCormack, who had visited Irving in London and dined with him over the previous years, suddenly became A Denier. SMP dumped the book, the product of eight years’ research, in an unprecedented action of jibbering, craven, and panic. It did not save McCormack; he resigned six weeks later.
Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reichis now available as a free Adobe Acrobat download on this website. [Download-page]
[A twenty year campaign by the ADL against David Irving]
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Index of Items Relating to The St Martin’s Press Scandalunder construction
- Summary of the Whole Episode based on David Irving’s Private Diary
- Allgemeine jüdische Wochenzeitung, Bonn, July 16, 1992: “Moskaus Archive bringen neue Wahrheiten ans Licht.” [in German]
- Press Statement Issued by the Anti-Defamation League attacking St Martin’s Press
- Apr 3, 1996: Prof Deborah Lipstadt badmouths David Irving and his Goebbels book in Washington Post; SMP defends him
- Le Soleil, Montreal, April 5, 1996: “L’historien révisionniste David Irving est mis en échec”
- Article published by Time magazine, April 15, 1996, attacking St Martin’s Press
- Christopher Hitchens interviewed on ABC Australian Radio National, May 1996 (transcript)
- Hitchens in Vanity Fair, June 1996
- Cathy Young, in The Detroit News, June 4, 1996: “Old moral equivalency remains alive”
- New Socialist Man is tireless, cheerful, clean, brave, thrifty, and kind to animals, mocks a reviewer of Irving critic Tina Rosenberg: she comes close to suggesting that Stalin’s victims were murdered in a good cause …
- Tina Rosenberg’s vicious Review of Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich in New York Times, June 1996 in The New York Times, June 2, 1996
- Prof. Kevin MacDonald’s academic work on Jewish Methods of Combating Anti-Semitism by Controlling the Media
- St Martins Press cancels biography of George Bush Jr, Washington Post recalls the Goebbels episode
- Australian Jewish News, Jan 21, 2000 on role of Lipstadt in suppressing St Martins press edition of Goebbels biography
Letters by David Irving to the press about the scandal
- See Mr Irving’s Letters Index
 and specifically:
- April 3, 1996, to the New York Times
- April 15, 1996, to Francis Wheen, The Guardian
- April 23, 1996, to Herbert Mitgang of The Chicago Tribune
- April 23, 1996, to The Observer
- May 6, 1996, to The Nation
- June 5, 1996, to Bill Glauber of the Baltimore Sun: the lies of the New York Times about the Goebbels Diaries
Other items
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