Documents on the your Vienna index B. asks me to post it here with a message of thanks to all those who stood by her and helped her during my index . Michael Whine’s friends were not among them. February 1, 2007 (Thursday) London (England) THINGS get more interesting.
At 6:40 pm, Ian B. writes to me: “I am in the process of obtaining seven reels of microfilm of Rudolf Höss ‘s ( picture below right ) trial in 1946 – 1947, which also contains investigation material, evidence and court documents during the commandant’s trial in Kraków. If you are interested, would you like a copy at some-point.” I reply: “I would be extremely interested. . . How can we arrange this? It seems vital for my Himmler biography.
I am visiting all the Reinhardt sites privately in a few weeks. Where are you getting the Höss trial stuff from? While in prison I read and analysed the whole Aumeier file, very interesting indeed (he was Höss’s deputy).” Alan H. says: “I will meet you in Krakow or somewhere easier to find.” I reply at 10:04 pm: “Let me decide how when I see the car that is on offer in Budapest. . . He is not talking about video, I assume it is the documentation of the trial.
That could be very interesting, and perhaps a major online project.” TODAY’s Daily Telegraph again refers to me, no doubt accidentally, as “the historian”; that makes a change from forty years ago, when they circulated secret instructions in their house-style book that “David Irving in the Rolf Hochhuth scandal is never to be referred to as a historian, but only as a writer.”
Their managing editor Maurice Green had only just assured me in an indignant letter that I was being equal treatment with my critics; but Private Eye confirmed the existence of the secret ukase. I therefore wrote