David Irving’s Radical’s Diary, 1999 (15 June 1999)

your current AR-index Canadian League of Human Rights of the B’nai Brith Coalition for Human Dignity, Oregon Community Security Trust of Board of Deputies Jewish Telegraph Agency Searchlight and Gerald Gable Surfwatch Internet censorship FOR THIRTY-FIVE years author David Irving has kept a private diary. It has proven useful in countless actions.

For the information of his many supporters he publishes an edited text in his irregular newsletter ACTION REPORT. ugust 1999 London, England All day Jill works on distilling DRESDEN for Acrobat posting on Website. The computer then crashes and I spend the evening rebuilding the PageMaker item. Aaargh; but got it posted onto the Website in very nice form at 11:44 PM. Free, but in the spirit of the Web. I shall do the same with HITLER’S WAR very shortly!

Work all day with Jill on Acrobat version of NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE . Post it in the evening on the Website. Much praise already for the APOCALYPSE 1945, THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN posting. Video of Wochenschau arrives from Hamburg. I ask them for permission to place one segment on our Internet Website. Jill has started preparing GOEBBELS.

MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH for the Website, a free download; the floppies we are working from are of course considerably longer than the published text; I edit them down at St Martins’ Press ‘s request, particularly the early chapters. To a sceptic I reply: When my books first appeared (1962) there were no such things as computers or floppies. I’m going only the Acrobat way. If people can’t be bothered to get the free Acrobat Reader download, then I can’t be bothered with them.

Book sales won’t suffer (a) they’re mostly out of print; (b) students will prefer to read and quote from (my) on line books, as they can copy and paste. In my view anyway. I phone the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) about doing a mail-out; they can send out 12,500 leaflets about Cincinnati. Drive out to Heathrow at 5 p.m. to collect Benté and Jessica on their return from Denmark; I take a home movie of their arrival.

It would be nice to visit her parents, but — we know that Denmark sometimes acts as though the Wehrmacht is still in occupation. Benté does not spot me, Jessica does. Both looking very beautiful indeed. Today there are thirty emails. One from a lady in Indiana offers 2400 self supporting acres in Southern Ind [Indiana] to be offered to white power groups and individuals esp vets who make up over half of the homeless.

Yeh America, where the draft dodger sleeps in the White House and the vets sleep in the streets. She gives her address, but sounds like an agente provocateuse to me. Why me, O Lord? A Dr David Meier asks: Did you do the translation of Reinhard Gehlen ‘s memoirs into English? Did you have contact with him at the time? I reply: I did. His memoirs published in German were a heap, purchased blind (unseen) by Peter Ritner of World Publishing Co.

Ritner later exited from the company, taking an unusual and rather direct route from their 100th floor of the Empire State Building to the ground. I like to think that Gehlen’s memoirs, as worked over by me, had nothing to do with that primitive attempt at flight. When Ritner saw the useless book he had spent $200K on, he hired me to put meat on its bones; I interviewed Gehlen ten or twenty times on tape, and fleshed out the MS with chapter and verse.

In the process I reviewed all the clippings files on him and discovered the rather odd fact that chapters of his book were almost identical with articles in Dr Gerhard Frey ‘s newspaper Deutsche Soldatenzeitung : either Gehlen had lifted (pirated) them, or he was the original author for Frey, writing under a nom de plume. Gehlen then chopped out a lot of what I put in, on security grounds.

I put all the interview notes into my papers (collection, Sammlung Irving) at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, which I can no longer reach ( banned from German soil since 1993 ). A vicious and abusive email comes from Professor Arthur Butz , of North-western University, objecting that I describe John Bennett of Australia in my last Action Report as an “Aussie meathead” because he called me in the wee hours.

I could have commented of course that as a tenured professor he has a rather cushioned existence, with no doubt a pension at the end of it all. Instead I reply: I have noted your comments. Had John Bennett not repeatedly — i.e. many times — committed this infraction, he would not have earned the title. A meathead in my book is somebody who will not learn. Perhaps that includes us all, but I at least try not to phone people around the world in the wee small hours of the morning.

I have a short enough night as it is, without being phoned on the hour and half hour by my many thoughtless friends around the globe who cannot be bothered to work out for themselves what time it is in the land they are calling. Work until 3 a.m. putting in rolling link Javascript on the front page of AR-Online . Charles Provan phones, delighted to speak at Cincinnati on the Dachau massacre. Things are shaping up well; I just hope we now get the numbers.

Alois S. congratulates us on the Adobe book uploads: Dear I would like to present my congratulations for the excellent quality of your .pdf files. The use of embedded fonts and clean typography makes the result really impressive! I don’t know what impact these files will have on your book sales but it is surely a kick in the afor the enemies of real history and free speech. I reply: Many thanks for your kind remarks.

After I noticed that the FBI Website and other important Websites (among them, the Smithsonian) used .pdf files, I investigated and realised that with PageMaker 6.5 you can produce very clean files in that format for free downloading. One of my staff is currently preparing Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich in pdf. Trotz Verbot, nicht tot! We attach importance to clean typography and the hyperlinks.

You will notice that we use a generous leading (space between the lines) which would be impossibly extravagant in a printed (paper) book; this is to discourage Far East pirates from printing the pdf. files as books. I think that over the years it will help to spread my books, and not damage sales. It is anyway my modest contribution to the world we live in. Students will be able eventually to read all my 30 books in .pdf files (and very few books by my rivals are available in this manner).

Your letter of encouragement suggests to me that I am doing the right thingAbusive and pornographic e-mail from “Nazi-hunter” threatening to wreck the Cincinnati function. It reads: The infamous nazi-wannabe piece of sh*t “historian” has organized a “Real History” conference in Cincinnati September 24-26. This scumbag **** nazi pederast deserves a proper reception. Accordingly, we are in the process of ascertaining the exact location, timetables, and schedules, of these proceedings.

These will be published, together with the phone numbers of the hotel and organizers. We will also detail what our further actions will be. Islamic radio in Iran phones asking me for an interview. I refuse and hang up. Mark W. has given them my phone number With Benté to Grosvenor Square. Jessica has her pink bicycle, on which she now pedals crazily around the flower beds. She has learned suddenly to balance, “got the hang of it.”

She pedals madly up and down the paved surface, past Benté who sits facing me, smiling proudly. She whooshes past with no feet on the pedals, then no hands. My heart too bursts with pride and joy about this little girl (and about Benté too). I work until 2 a.m. Set out with Jessica as driver’s mate to Dartford with a load of books for America, at 3 p.m., but traffic is heavy and we won’t make it by 4:30 p.m. so I turn back.

Larry M. emails a picture of his five year old Sarah, who died last year. I reply Thank you so much for your kind letter and for the picture of Sarah, which came through bright and strong and which I am printing tomorrow for Jessica, who is always with us. When I go out with Jessica, as I did today I am always mortally terrified that something may snatch her away.

This worrying email comes: I have received several reports about a possible confrontation with ARA in Cincinnati in connection with your “Real History” weekend

on September 24. People have written me that the ARA is gearing up to getting ugly, and some have expressed concern that, if you are caught unawares, bad headlines for the cause of truth in history might result. The ARA is, in fact, a creation of Jewish interests. He knows this via an ARA dropout. ARA has replaced the JDL, which gave the Jewish community a bad name because of the name, “Jewish.”

They are an a Marxist-anarchist street gang for hire, to be used by more-or-less remote control – just like B’nai Brith did it in their campaign in Toronto, where BB supplied legal advice, signs and press contact as well as organizational support in their campaign against Ernst for several years. Cincinnati is ARA Central Command Office. Money and directives come from a Jewish law firm who acts as a conduit in Cincinnati.

ARA had their national (possibly even international) get-together there – marches, speeches etc. in 1996-97. They had demonstrations there where several of them were arrested. They are one ugly bunch. That the Cincinnati Police Intelligence Unit seems to have penetrated this outfit at their last gathering, and the cops there did a superb job in boxing in or containing the illegal activities of ARA hotheads to a minimum. Up at 8:30 or so.

I go out with Jessica to Grosvenor Square, and she pedals madly around the perimeter for fifteen minutes. Around lunchtime or just after (we sit outside the Spaghetti House) I finally open the first of the thick blue binders of expert reports served up by Lipstadt. This one contains reports by Professors Roger Eatwell, Funke , and Levin . I know none of them, and having read the reports suspect my life has not been deprived of much.

I spend the whole day until around midnight reading the first binder, 500 pages or so of double spaced typescript. Of course I am alarmed that my private diaries for forty years, some seventy volumes, have been placed in the hands of experts overseas, over whom the British courts have no jurisdiction, and at the end of the day I write a letter to Mishcon de Reya asking if these experts have been warned about the implied undertakings.

I also noted that Mishcon have provided Levin with Mozzochi’s affidavits , though both were ordered struck out by Master Trench as defective. This seems a clear wrongdoing to me, and they earn a sharp letter of rebuke and a request that they remove those passages, failing which I shall ask the court to do so.

Irritating is that they have cherrypicked the references to Mr Duke visiting me (with his nubile girlfriend Christy); the sentences which make plain that Mr Duke came to me as a budding author, that I then made pertinent suggestions about editing his work, and advised him to find a mainline publisher, and passed his name to my literary agent for that purpose are overlooked.

As edited by Levin, my diaries reveal me as the kind of person I for one would certainly not have liked to associate with!

I spend until 2 a.m. reading the first six months of my 1995 diary, and this restores my self-esteem: many historic episodes, large and small, like Jessica’s first steps; the admission by Auschwitz to L’Express in January that the gas chamber shown to tourists is a fake — another great revisionist victory; and the shocking phone call in February with word that poor, obese old Tom Norman , Wheezy Tom, who had spent two weeks with us at the end of 1994, and was setting up our mail-order

bookstore in North Carolina, had been found dead, shot execution-style in the back of the head while he slept, etc. Two of the Professors reproduce my nonsense-poems hummed to Jessica. Those will rebound on them if they use them in court: wait and see. One of the Professors comments on the content of the Website, for its high “traditional enemies” profile (which they speciously and wrongly equate with Jewish): What do they expect?

The Website was launched soon after the writs were served, with the aim of providing funds and Intelligence for the two big court actions (which are shortly to be joined by a third). If they object to some of the (newspaper) items I have posted, they should see those that I have rejected! Phone John Fox to discuss revelations of Himmler diary , December 1, 1941. Professor Toby Graham sends a letter regretting that he has had a stroke and cannot speak (on Churchill ) at Cincinnati after all.

I invite Count Tolstoy . Dinner at the Spaghetti House. Kevin H. is there, which rather disturbs my plan to read more of Professor Longerich’s epic statement, which is pure guff so far: I