Real History and those who Forge and Fake it

Penguin
Books Ltd, who could have escaped upon payment of five hundred pounds to a charity, are to be hoist on their own petard.

November
3, 2002 (Sunday), London

SOMEBODY told me a few days ago that
Germar Rudolf has now published in his otherwise estimable quarterly
VffG a defence
of Gregory Douglas alias Peter
Stahl. The world is full of weird natural phenomena, and this just adds another, albeit minor one, to their list.

Stahl is beyond defending. He once published a magazine article reproducing a
“Gestapo” Müller document illustrating his contention that Adolf
Hitler had escaped to South America by plane, or submarine — I forget which (I did not even read it with even half an eye, as I have interviewed myself in 1967
the people who burned Hitler’s body of whom one, Otto Günsche, is I am glad to say still very much alive). The
Müller document, alas, had no SS runes.

When later Stahl obtained a genuine wartime Nazi typewriter with runes, he retyped the document with the runes and used that “original” as the illustration the next time he wrote on Hitler’s escape.

Twenty years later he was still taking in the gullible. He deceived even
Gitta
Sereny, but only for a short time, with a fake document about the end of
Odilo Globocnic, Himmler’s chief mass-murderer, in Austria.

Mark Weber of the Institute for
Historical Review in California is more concerned about the Rudolf article than I am:

I entirely understand your
attitude [he
writes]. For months I
similarly refrained from responding.
However, you may wish to consider
writing something, given that you will
almost certainly be asked about all
this.

I reply:

Like Gitta Sereny (Globocnic)
I am in the fortunate position of
having had Peter Stahl actually try to
palm off a fake document (Heinrich
Himmler to Oswald Pohl
letter, October 1943) onto me. Germar
Rudolf has apparently not had this
pleasure.

I marvel, but only briefly, at what has led
Germar Rudolf into this particular cul-de-sac in his career. He is in a wretched position: thanks to the machinations of the traditional enemies in
Germany, he has lost his home, wife, and future, as well as his professional career and children — unable to pursue the one, or to return home to see the other.

For a while he had to write under pseudonyms, which led to the anomalous position that in the otherwise highly useful expert report he wrote for my appeal in the Lipstadt case, refuting the facts and arguments of the non-chemist
Robert
Van Pelt, he was to be seen quoting himself under these various different names as his authorities; this might have been acceptable in the circumstances, had he not also thrown in muted praise for these “other authors” in his report as well — which alas

rendered the whole document unusable in Court. More recently he entered a brief but useful relationship
— with a woman whose number he accidentally dialled when telephoning —
but I believe that too has petered out.

OTHER correspondents ask me about the progress of The Final Gavel, the ultimate appeal we are bringing against the consequences of the Lipstadt trial.

(Thanks to the incompetence and sloth of the solicitors I instructed in the appeal against Mr Justice Gray’s Judgment, who failed to make the necessary applications in time, permission for that appeal was refused: I can only warn the unwary from ever instructing the firm of
Nigel Adams & Co in any matter involving applications or, for that matter, correspondence and phone calls either).

Amhurst, Brown, Colombotti, the law firm I instructed in their place, have now agreed terms for The Final Gavel, but have asked for £3,800 more than we have in the kitty: more delay, but we shall prevail in the long run, of that I am sure. Penguin Books Ltd, who could have escaped upon payment of five hundred pounds to a charity, are to be hoist on their own petard.

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Irving wrote to Penguin Books

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the action

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