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 "SS
Verwaltungsführer
haben zu bleiben"  FOR
the ludicrous debate in Court on the misreading of Heinrich
Himmler's handwritten
note of Dec 1, 1941, read and enjoy the Trial Transcript
of Days 1,
3,
22,
and 23.
In the 1960s I was the first historian to
take the trouble to decipher Himmler's handwritten notes,
and inevitably I made misreadings: the copy before me was
faint, and in Gothic handwriting. It was very easy to
misread the phrase haben zu bleiben as Juden zu
bleiben, and in the 1960s I did. [See the note's
right-hand column, third line up]
The error was inconsequential; as I
pointed out to the Court, if the whole sentence was removed
from the 1977 edition of Hitler's
War it did not affect the paragraph 's meaning one whit.
I gave copies of all the facsimiles and my typed transcripts
to the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in the 1960s, even
before the book was published -- hardly the work of a
deliberate falisifier. In later editions the misreading was
corrected. 
See too Mr Irving's Oct 2004 comment in: Sara
Salzman takes another fat swipe at Mr Irving on History
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