A Radical’s Diary: February 27, 2004
AT twelve noon exactly we walk into the Court. Registrar Jaques again hears the matter [Deborah Lipstadt vs. David Irving and the Trustee of his seized estate]. The hearing, set…
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Diary
David Irving's Radical's Diary - personal reflections, observations, and commentary from 2001-2014.
A Radical’s Diary: July 31, 2004
ROTTEN night, weirdest dreams yet, very exhausting. Phone rang at 3:53 a.m. (from "unknown"). Awake from 2 then 3 a.m., wandered into the Mosquito Room at 5:30 and slept two…
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A Radical’s Diary: April 3, 2005
A SMATTERING of heavy dreams including one in which I spy a Josephine, aged around seven, walking towards me in a yellow top and white shorts. I often think of…
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A Radical’s Diary: May 5, 2005
THIS is on the edge of a vast Illinois prairie; beyond the hotel the road just heads off across a flat plain. Shades of North by Northwest: all that is…
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A Radical’s Diary: June 5, 2005
A BRITISH researcher Steven Kippax has informed me that the Public Record Office has documents confirming beyond doubt that Heinrich Himmler was liquidated.
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A Radical’s Diary: February 10, 2005
BILL J. phones, has lost his cell phone, perhaps when he came to dinner; did it fall down the back of one of our sofas? I say it is not…
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A Radical’s Diary: October 12, 2005
OUR Greek publisher, who is two hours ahead of us, already reports in: "I agree. No interviews will be canceled. Journalists want you. Yesterday (noon) a journalist from the biggest…
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A Radical’s Diary: May 13, 2005
MORE work in the evening on the Lina Heydrich papers, for my Heinrich Himmler biography; excellent stuff on Reinhard Heydrich and his character, more marginal about Himmler though there are…
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A Radical’s Diary: October 14, 2005
WE HAVE SETTLED into the new Queen Anne's Gate apartment well, but in the morning a letter comes from the managing agents, F., stating that they will come to inspect…
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A Radical’s Diary: September 16, 2005
UP at six-thirty a.m. and drive Jessica to school. I feel more relaxed now that we have a clear choice of one or two rental homes to move to (unless…
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A Radical’s Diary: February 20, 2005
BOB has installed the new search engine I commissioned. I congratulate him, and he replies: "I am rather proud of it. I have been testing it quite rigorously. So far…
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A Radical’s Diary: January 21, 2005
OUR bank account here is now all but empty, and the letter which came yesterday was, as I suspected, from the school about the bill. But the big reprint of…
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A Radical’s Diary: June 21, 2005
AN email from a David Lock in Australia, a schoolboy. I had responded to his earlier query by directing him to similar letters from other pupils in the past.
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A Radical’s Diary: March 23, 2005
Champaign -- Chicago (Illinois) -- Indianapolis (Indiana) --
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A Radical’s Diary: August 27, 2005
MY eye sight is fuzzing up. I suspect the bright American sunshine, where I used no glasses, will not have helped.
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A Radical’s Diary: June 28, 2005
B. phones from London for a long chat. Jessica has gone off with friends to a birthday in Battersea. B. has trepidatiously included two bottles of shampoo in the birthday…
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A Radical’s Diary: September 28, 2005
UP at 6:50 a.m., and take Jessica to school in Hammersmith. Chatty as ever. A gentleman from Tonga, a former Empire colony, is among those applying today to go on…
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A Radical’s Diary: May 29, 2005
DAY begins with MH of Kansas offering $22,000 for the third Hitler painting in Charles T.'s possession. Seems I went into the wrong business. Should have been an art dealer.
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