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Real History and the Jewish Holocaust controversy your ADLindex some traditional enemies of Free Speech: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai Brith, USA Australian Government Australian B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission Board of Deputies of British Jews Center for Democratic Renewal, Atlanta Canadian Jewish Congress Canadian League of Human Rights of the B’nai Brith Coalition for Human Dignity, Oregon Community Security Trust of Board of Deputies German Government Jewish
Telegraph Agency Searchlight and Gerald Gable Simon Wiesenthal Center Surfwatch Internet censorship –>Index: The origins of anti-semitism Irving and Todt Reply-To: H-NET History of Antisemitism List Sender: H-NET History of Antisemitism List From: Steven F Sage List Editor: Richard S Levy APROPOS of Roni Stauber’s H-Net Antisemitism paper on the career of David Irving prior to the Lipstadt libel trial, I offer the following personal experience of a scholarly
exchange with Irving. One of my two books-in-progress concerns Organisation Todt, the vast Nazi public works and slave labor agency. In that regard during summer 1998 I sought the (purported) diary of Fritz Todt , founder of OT. Back in 1978, David Irving claimed in the preface to his book The War Path that he’d consulted Todt’s diary, and had been the first to do so. Such a document should have been a real find.
But Irving cited it substantively in only two places; in one of which, the factoid he cited was available in a published Nazi period source. More recently, Irving stated on his website that he had donated much source material to the Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (IfZ, the Institute for Modern History) in Munich. Irving claimed having included the Todt papers in that bequest. So I wrote to IfZ seeking the said Todt diary. IfZ replied stating they held no such item.
Then I contacted Irving, who in reply mentioned a “transcript” of Todt’s diary yet without naming any transcriber. A transcript sounds like a good news, bad news joke. The good news is that, if said Todt diary exists, one is relieved of deciphering Todt’s scrawl, which I had already encountered. The bad news is that a transcript could have sanitized the diary, excerpted portions, and perhaps interpolated material. If a transcript exists. If a diary exists.
When I informed Irving that IfZ denied holding any diary, he offered to contact’s Todt’s daughter in Munich on my behalf. But then, as I expected, Irving never got