Real History and Ian Kershaw's Hitler

Posted Sunday, July 7, 2002

Updated Saturday, April 7, 2007

Index to items on
Sir Ian Kershaw
[The conformist historian]

David Irving's letters:

Oct 21, 1998: Offers Kershaw advice and assistance for his latest volume
Mar 14, 1999: Asks about an expert witness on German language
Apr 3, 1999: Mr Irving invites Kershaw to be expert witness in Lipstadt trial [Kershaw refused, explaining that his knowledge of German was not good enough]
Mar 2001: David Irving challenges Ian Kershaw in March 2001: did he really claim to be the first to use the Goebbels Diaries from the Moscow archives? (He was not) | And again

How much does Ian Kershaw 's Hitler biography derive from David Irving's? | Kershaw responds to Irving's challenge on Goebbels diaries
Gary Goodenow suspects that Ian Kershaw got his facts from Mr Irving's Hitler's War
Teacher Joe Mielis says, Guess whom Prof Ian Kershaw cites in his Hitler biography
Lying about Hitler #2: Prof. Ian Kershaw interviewed by New York Times
The Observer and The Times review Prof. Ian Kershaw 's Adolf Hitler biography: its content sounds familiar...
BBC reports: A Knighthood for Sir Ian Kershaw
Stephen Jones is unimpressed by all the hype around the turgid works of Ian Kershaw

... and see A Radical's Diary: February 14, June 18, 2002

Reviews of Prof. Kershaw's books:

N Y Times, Dec 10, 2000: "In Volume II of his biography, Ian Kershaw shows that Hitler had the perfect personality for a cult leader"

The Observer, Oct 15, 2000: "Ian Kershaw reveals a Führer who was a clinically insane monster but a dull amateur with bad breath in Hitler 1936-45"

The Times, Sep 27, 2000: Hitler's last days: Hitler screamed: "You have all betrayed me"

Ha'aretz, Feb 8, 2004: "What Daddy wanted"

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