London, Sunday, May 11, 1997
[8:33 pm]
Dear Dr Browning,
I have just noticed that you once
published a reply to Martin Broszat's
review in the Institut für Zeitgeschichte
journal VfZ, 1977, of my book HITLER'S
WAR. As you
can imagine I was not too pleased by Broszat's
review, and he refused me permission to publish
my own response which I thought was rather
shabby (for example: he accused me of
manipulating translations of the
Tischgespräche, without realising that what
I had used were the original Bormann-Vermerke,
provided to me by François Genoud).
Could I ask you for a copy of your
response, which appears to have been published
in the January 1981 VfZ? I would happily pay
copying costs, or perhaps you would accept in
response a copy of my published German
transcription (and annotation) of the
entire 1938 Goebbels
diary.
Yours sincerely,
David Irving
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