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Bob Liepa has a question, Friday, April 2, 2004, about Hitler's writing instrument: did it have the Star of David?.  Hitler's fountain pen
I had read "Hitler's War" back in the 1970s,
and read your millennium edition not long ago.
Aside from your superb research and writing, I must
say the design and overall quality of the book is
superb. The whole package -- from the color photos
to the reproduction of documents to the newspaper
front pages (which I particularly like) -- it's the
greatest book I've ever seen and one of my most
prized possessions. One can tell a lot of pride
went into producing it, and it was a labor of
love. ON another matter, I had recently read something on the Internet that I am curious about. As this story goes, the pen manufacturer, Mont Blanc, had been asked back in the 1930s to produce a fountain pen for Adolf Hitler, and came up with the snowcap design that remains today. When looked at from the side, the pen cap resembles a snow-covered mountain peak. But, when viewed from the top, it resembles the Jewish star. As the story goes, the pen was designed this way by an anti-Nazi so that Hitler would be carrying the Jewish star in his pocket. I know this is hardly a major issue, but I am a fountain pen aficionado, and am curious if you know anything about this. Do you know what brand of fountain pen Hitler used? I know you are a busy man, but any insight you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
David Irving comments: IT was not a Mont Blanc
pen, as Otto Günsche showed it to me --
he picked it up off Hitler's writing desk minutes
after Hitler's suicide, and kept it as a memento
throughout his ten years of Unfortunately, it became faulty, and I sent it to the Mont Blanc company in Bremen for repair. Alas, with a misplaced sense of customer goodwill, the company informed me that this model was no longer manufactured, so they had taken the liberty of destroying the original and sending me a free replacement, a modern Mont Blanc (which leaks like the devil, but which I still use). | ||||||||||||
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I'VE
neglected to mention just how impressed I am with
your "Hitler's War" 
Soviet
captivity. Field Marshal Erhard Milch
(right) used a Mont Blanc, a Meisterstück, and
his family donated it to me after the field
marshal's death (I wrote 
