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your Lipstadt trial index your Deborah Lipstadt dossier No. 26, August 1, 2004 [ German translation ] KEY West, Jan 2: A phone call from the Robert H Jackson Center in Pennsylvania, excited at the prospect of my talking there in May. I call London. Little Jessica answers, says a man phoned and told her I am a very bad person indeed. Nice folks. She takes it all calmly. A John H. asks for details of a bank account to which he can transfer cash for the fight.
I have to reply: “For security reasons I will not provide banking details to somebody I don’t know.” My counsel reports from London that the claim by Deborah Lipstadt (right) for all my possessions raises difficult issues of law — she has, however, involuntarily done you a considerable service. The exhibit is a target-rich area: Mike Whine [of the Board of Deputies of British Jews] is corresponding with Mishcon de Reya [Lipstadt’s lawyers] about your affairs.
Lipstadt is filled with shock and awe at how active you are in the USA; and the Trustee has gone against her own solicitors’ advice in refusing to hand back your possessions. I reply: “We have to prevent their getting the stuff they are asking for because of the confidentiality of the material. The Board of Deputies of British Jews is anxious to get insight into it.” Christopher Hastings publishes an article in The Sunday Telegraph about Churchill’s income tax problems in 1942.
I write him: Once again, Chris, when you need a Churchill biographer to quote, you turn to that a**hole Andrew Roberts. Surely it is safe to quote me again now that your boss Conrad Black has been unmasked? I have been working since 1970 on my Churchill biography, the third and final volume will come out next year.
In the first volume (1986) I went into detail about his attempts to avoid income tax, which I researched in 1976 in the files of his literary agent (in the University of Oregon) and in 1977 in the Butler Library at Columbia University, New York. When I first published these “somewhat unsavoury” facts in The Evening Standard’s Londoner’s Diary in the 1970s Winston Jr publicly called me a lunatic. Gradually the Real History of the period emerges however, no thanks to the conformist historians.
Incidentally, Adolf had similar tax problems: see the Introduction to the new edition of my “Hitler’s War”. I go to Mangia Mangia for supper, and leave in a huff as they have not taken my order within one nanosecond . . . peanut butter for supper. Mrs Scheliga phones about an Eva Braun photo of Hitler she has, would I like to sell it? A Norwegian tells me he has found a website started by Deborah Lipstadt. She has posted on it hundreds of my private papers obtained from my voluntary Discovery.
It is a serious contempt of Court. I check the site — it is horrendous. “This website is a project of Emory University’s Witness to the Holocaust Program and the Institute for Jewish Studies.” I write give them notice under the Digital Millennium