Real History and Hitler’s adjutants

Bormann’s adjutant misjudged the mood and suggested that as it was an airborne pest, the job should go to the Luftwaffe adjutant.
—
David Irving talks about a famous
July 1944 incident at Hitler’s
Headquarters.

July
16, 2002 (Tuesday)
Key
West (Florida)

My Counsel phones from London at my request. Discussion of the final wallop, and raising the modest funds needed to punch it through; they are needed in two stages — he says the first stage is to perfect the transcript concerned, but he thinks the legal point to be appealed before a Lord Justice of Appeal, the second stage, is a short one and we stand a good chance as Gray J himself said he would be unhappy about making an Order if
[…].

There are two days’ work involved in perfecting the transcript. I must sort it out with Peter Laskey (my solicitor).

I look up the transcript, and find the passage which Counsel, Adrian
Davies, is referring to. I will post it in a confidential website dossier, with password protection, for my major contributors later this week.

A NICE letter in this morning’s mailbox from Fritz Darges in Germany. Now
that is a name from the past! I interviewed him thirty years ago, when I was researching Hitler’s War.

He was Martin Bormann’s adjutant attached to Hitler’s HQ, and as such attended most of the war conferences at the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg until an odd incident in 1944 which was gleefully confirmed to me by several of the others present — an incident which, if included in some Wannsee-type made-for-TV docudrama would be dismissed as wholly far-fetched, even if it had the name of Stephen
Spielberg as producer tacked onto it.

I described the Darges episode only briefly in Hitler’s War:

Hitler’s
world
[in
the summer of
1944]
was thus beginning to crash. In Italy
the German Fourteenth Army pulled out
of Leghorn (Livorno). In Denmark
Communist resistance cells were waging
overt partisan warfare. In Hungary too
there were ominous rumblings. Hungary
refused to deport the Jews from
Budapest; instead, Horthy
announced, a general would be bringing
Hitler a letter

on July 21 . The reasons for
Hitler’s discontent were therefore
manifold. His irritation was such that
on July 18 he dismissed one of his
adjutants, Fritz Darges,
transferring him to the eastern front
because of a minor incident involving a
winged insect in the conference hut. He
lunched in his bunker that day with his
secretary Fräulein Christa
Schroeder. He was ill at ease.

Once
he exclaimed, “Nothing must happen to
me now, because there is nobody else
who could take over!” He had
premonitions of trouble and commented
uneasily, “There is something in the
air.” Two days later he admitted to
Mussolini that he had first
experienced them during the flight to
the Wolf’s Lair. On July 29 he was to
say, “I admit I long expected an
assassination attempt.”

The actual “Darges incident” was even more improbable than the above passage suggests. It was July 18, 1944. A fly began buzzing around the famous conference hut — destined to be wrecked just two days later by an assassin’s bomb. It landed on Hitler’s shoulder several times, as he stooped over the battle maps, and he irritably squatted at it and missed, while his adjutants began to snicker.

Called upon to dispatch the insect, Bormann’s adjutant misjudged the mood and suggested that as it was an airborne pest, the job should go to the Luftwaffe adjutant,
Nicolas von Below. Hitler dismissed
Darges on the spot and he was banished to the Eastern Front.

Among others, I had half-heartedly invited Darges to come to Cincinnati, if only to shake hands and meet privately with our hundreds of guests who are eager for first hand contact with Real History.
In his reply, received today, he regrets that his eyesight is now all but gone, he needs medical attention, and he is just too old to make the trip: and who can blame him?

“I would have loved to attend this convention,” he writes, in handwriting even bigger than Hitler’s famed typewriter. “I am sure you will be struggling to get at the truth about history. There are still major lacunae there, and the media-mafia dominates the market. I know of the difficulties people are causing you. I wish the convention every success in the fight against the
Dunkelmänner” — the dusky figures who oppose us.

LATER, journalist Sam
Francis phones: We have been announcing him as one of the after-dinner speakers for our upcoming Cincinnati conference in six weeks’ time. He is just the kind of man we need, who does not fear to express his opinions. The Washington
Times carried his column for many years, but fired him — for personal reasons, rather than because of the fire and brimstone that he breathed.

“I have rather bad news,” he begins —
as though the reason for his unexpected phone call could have been in any doubt.
He has decided he cannot speak after all.
He has mentioned his invitation today to
Peter
Brimelow, who carries his column in some publication, and Brimelow has “hit the roof.”

I don’t know who Brimelow is, but I know his type. The media are crawling with people like him. They oil their way around the floor. I thank Sam for calling, and hang up. Russ Granata also called in sick a few days ago, saying he felt unwell: that is an uncanny ability, to be able to predict feeling unwell six weeks hence.

Reminds me of the historian
Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who accepted our jnvitation two years ago, then forgot he had accepted and thrice denied it to the media when challenged; and Viktor
Suvorow, who actually did forget he had accepted (on May 16 last year), and phoned weeks later to apologise for not having turned up!

It is harder to put together a major conference like this than outsiders will ever realize. None of these feeble gentlemen will ever get invited again, that is for sure: at least not by me.
Thank goodness we have a fine line-up already secured, including a major panel discussion between real experts on the events and timelines of the four planes that went down

on September 11. That is what Real History is about. I shall start revealing names closer to the event: we are holding them back precisely because of the Brimelows of this world.

Postscript
(): I am
informed that Peter Brimelow is
(or was) a senior editor at
Forbes and National
Review. Currently president of the
Center
For American
Unity,
and that he also seems to run a website
called “VDARE“.

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