your Adolf Hitler index Hitler’s stenographers Hitler’s secretaries free download “Hitler’s War” book your Goebbels index your Heydrich index your Himmler index Draft facsimiles Index to papers of and about Dr Helmuth Greiner, KTB-Führer des OKW: keeper of the official High Command war diary August 12, 1942 – March 17, 1943 Introduction : WHILE researching for his biography of Adolf Hitler in November 1973 David Irving microfilmed the largely
handwritten draft of the 1942-1943 War Diary ( Kriegstagebuch ) of the OKW (High Command of the German Armed Forces) written by Helmuth Greiner . It is available as Microfilm DJ-91 of the Irving Microfilm Collection, from Microform Academic Publishers Ltd., Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF3 2AT, England. This original draft is reproduced here as facsimiles in three large pdf files, pages 001 to 099 (10MB) ; 101 to 199 (12MB) ; and 200 to 242 (6.5MB).
A full transcript will be posted here shortly (it is labour-intensive work). The draft is mostly handwritten, but some typescript pages of the 242-page draft are also in the file. In accordance with his working methods, Mr Irving first typed a complete 150-page transcript of the handwritten and typed passages, which is posted with this dossier and the pdf facsimile pages.
In 1973 Mr Irving further obtained from Greiner’s widow [Frau Asta Greiner of Wiesbaden, Germany] her husband’s unpublished private diaries and the private letters he wrote to her during his Führer Headquarters stint, and these put a different accent on Greiner’s wartime opinions and provide much local colour (“Much though we long for rain and cool weather,” wrote the OKW diarist Greiner from Werewolf
on August 31, 1942, “we dread them too because then it rains in torrents and every lane will become a quagmire within minutes and the humid heat here is said to be particularly grim.”) They confirm Mr Irving’s views that such private letters are a more reliable source of opinion than war diaries: once mailed, letters are not easily retrieved and edited.
He contributed all these papers to the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) at the time, but when the German Ministry of the Interior ordered him banned from the country and archives in 1993, the archives had to return the entire one-ton Sammlung Irving; the files finally came