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David Irving

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Letter to the Editor
Ganpac Brief

[Not published]

The Ganpac Brief is a newsletter for German- Americans, circulated by Hans Schmidt of Florida, USA.

Ganpac Brief
P O Box 11124
Pensacola FL32524�1124 USA

London, September 13, 1997

Dear Hans Schmidt
I JUST READ your Ganpac Brief of September 1997 with Mr Goodson's article on my book Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich. May I just comment briefly, that people who try to skirt around the unpalatable content of the Goebbels diaries which I used in the Moscow secret state archives, and was indeed the first to exploit, by suggesting that they are somehow forged, are way off beam. The Germans filmed the diaries on about 1,700 glass plates in 1944 and 1945, some 70,000 pages of them. Some forgery! Even if somebody forged only the pages about the 1938 Kristallnacht, the question arises, why? Nobody has ever used them (before me), and those plates have been there since 1945.

As for the allegation that I did not let Ingrid Weckert see them, as a courtesy I indeed sent her photocopies of the crucial November 1938 pages, a few weeks after my return from Moscow in 1992, and she was good enough to suggest one or two improvements to my transcription of the handwriting. She rather naughtily then passed on copies of those transcripts to other people, as I later learned!

Meanwhile, thanks to the efforts of the Traditional Enemies of free speech, my book[1] partially based on the diaries (which was Doubleday's selection as book of the month for May last year) is floating face-down dead in the water in the United States: If that doesn't satisfy your readers that the diaries were genuine, nothing will!

Yours faithfully,
David Irving

Further notes:
  1. The book Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich is published in the UK by Focal Publications at �25.00 net. Sample chapter on the Kristallnacht.

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