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John
Dietrich
writes, on Saturday, December 25, 1999
Facts on The Prof.
I am doing a report on the Second Quebec Conference and would like some information on Friedrich Lindemann (Lord Cherwell). I have been unable to find anything except the fact that his father was German. I am curious about his animosity toward everything German. I would appreciate any assistance you could offer. Thank you.
David Irving
replies:
Friedrich
Lindemann, the later Lord Cherwell (right) 
was
born in the Alsace -- in Metz I think. There is an excellent
book on him called
The
Prof, by Roy Harrod; this
fine book was my introduction to him. On the Second Quebec
Conference you will find that the British government have
now released recently a lot of previously secret files:
Public Record office file PRO CAB.126/183 Hyde Park
memorandum [on the atomic-bomb agreement], Sept
1944, Mar 25, 1945 - February 17, 1947, and files before and
after that; their website is now machine searcheable (you
should reach it at http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/
). Have a look too at my introduction
to the Morgenthau Plan, which
evolved at that conference (I published a book on that, but
only in German).
Although many of his critics thought that he was of Jewish origin, almost certainly he was not. Lord Cherwell is one of the people I would most have liked to meet. But he died many years ago
Illustration from David Irving, Churchill’s War, vol. ii (Focal Point, London, 2001).
David Irving