Deborah Lipstadt

Real History, Deborah Lipstadt, Adolf Hitler and Diego Garcia Documents on the Posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 So I still wonder what did happen on Diego Garcia

on December 26? To put it bluntly: Do the US armed forces still possess a B52 strategic bomber force or not? March 12, 2005 (Saturday) Jackson (Mississippi) — Atlanta (Georgia) — A Mike Kilroy ” writes: “I see that you are apparently wrong in saying that Professor Lipstadt was avoiding you in the trial. In her words she wanted this very much and only avoided taking the witness stand because her lawyers advised her that it is not the tradition.

There was nothing she could add since her book spoke for itself, with the help of a few lawyers who did actually discuss it.” He continues, Since it is unnatural for her to back down from a direct discussion with you, perhaps it’s time you took the bull by the horns and offered to discuss this with her publicly? Or are you perhaps hesitant to tangle directly with a professor with Lipstadt’s international reputation?

I think she would probably jump at the chance to discuss this with you on radio. I reply: “You are wrong. Lipstadt has always stated since the 1990s that she would never debate with Holocaust ‘deniers’. That is one reason why I forced her into court. There she adopted the same stance. She could have overruled her lawyers at any time, I was suing her, not them . They knew she would lose the case for them the moment she opened her ugly mouth.”

As I say later in the evening, in Atlanta, when Lipstadt bleats that she would dearly have loved to testify in person, if only her lawyers had not told her not to, that is like my saying I was eager all along to fight Mike Tyson, but my doctors advised me against. Set out for Atlanta around 8 a.m., and drive hard all morning and afternoon. Arrive at the Diner at 4:10 pm, and set up; a large camera crew is there setting up to film the evening for C-Span. Eight men, two cameras.

Around thirty or forty of my guests show up, — the people I identify in my opening remarks as my Atlanta Support Group — and they fill the room nicely for dinner. I delivered a reasonable talk on the Lipstadt Trial, which I have been mulling over in my heard for the last 3,500 miles, i.e. the last ten days’ driving. Sam has advised me not to describe her as a simpleton; no great victories over those, let alone defeats. He is polite about the talk afterwards.

I forget to ask the crew for a tape. Off again way after midnight, after reloading the red Suburban. Arrived at Adairsville (Georgia) at 2 a.m., after turning down numerous Asian-run fleapit hotels on the way. March 12, 2005 (Saturday) Cincinnati (Ohio) THE credit card given me last night in Louisville by one Robert Wr. to charge for books, etc., has been declined; that’s a curse. $65 out of pocket over that.

Interesting news reports from Germany that two young German “scholars” have discovered that manuscript written by two of Hitler’s closest staff, Otto Günsche ( with me, above, at right in 1982 ) and Heinz Linge, for their KGB interrogators. Amazing how often such things get discovered, and rediscovered, and then rediscovered all over again. The German publisher, Lübbe, is holding a press conference on this sensational “find” tomorrow.

I put both German and British publishers of this document on notice that I got there first, as usual.

To the British firm, John Murray Ltd., I write: Kindly make plain in your publicity for the new book on Stalin’s Book on Hitler that it was not “first discovered” by the two young German authors, recently, but was used by me in the 1960s in writing my famous Hitler biography ” Hitler’s War ” (latest edition, Millennium Edition, 2002); it was served up to me by a KGB intelligence officer who had access to such items.

I checked its authenticity with both Heinz Linge and my friend Otto Günsche, and I donated a copy to the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, where it has been part of the Irving Collection since the 1980s. No doubt you have obtained permission to use the