Real History , Liars, and the coming of war your Lipstadt actionindex Alphabetical index (text) As I anticipated, there is clearest possible evidence that the page covering that event has been removed and retyped on the same typewriter but by a different typist.. — David Irving, reading the British Second Army’s record of Himmler’s death March 18, 2003 (Tuesday), London Up at 9:20 AM. I had written

on January 8 to Duncan Sandys Jr requesting access to the late Lord Sandys’ papers which are “open” in the Churchill archives, in these terms: “For my work on the third volume of Churchill’s life, I would like to consult a file of correspondence between Mr Duncan Sandys and Churchill 1944-1945, which is in the Churchill College archives. The file is already marked as open, but needs your general consent, I believe.

There may also be other items falling in this category which I would like to consult. Duncan Sandys Sr provided major assistance to me already in 1963 when I wrote the book The Mare’s Nest , about the German V-weapons. I would be happy to send you a complimentary copy of vol. ii if it would interest you.”

Today, over two months later, he e-mails me refusing! “The executors of Lord Duncan-Sandys’s estate have considered your request for access to his papers and have decided not to grant it on this occasion.” Apart from the Allen Dulles papers at Princeton, many, many years ago, this is the only occasion on which I have been refused access to a collection of papers in a public archive. I reply: “I am sure that the late Duncan Sandys (Lord Sandys) would strongly disapprove this decision.

As the executors may be aware from his papers he gave me the greatest possible assistance for my book The Mare’s Nest in 1967, which was serialized by The Sunday Telegraph and Der Spiegel. He subsequently invited me to his receptions and cocktail parties. On one occasion he personally escorted me round the then secret Underground War Cabinet Rooms! However, the decision is theirs and I shall ensure that it is suitably highlighted in the introduction to the third volume when published.”

March 19, 2003 (Wednesday), London The German Federal Archives today returned to me, at their own expense, the David Irving Collection from the Bundesarchiv, a big pallet of boxes. We have to pay £200 Customs charges. My boxes of papers have returned after ten years. On July 3, 1993, the day they banned me from the archives building in Koblenz “in the interests of the German people,” they had to undertake to