He
might not have got so many pieces of Gold
in return. 'People lie when money is
involved' -- yes, I may just possibly have
said that.
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February
8, 2005 (Tuesday)
London
(England) 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 here. Wants to
talk to me about making a Channel Four documentary
on me [. . .] -- Okay by me, say
I; you, I trust. He is one of the finest television
documentary producers of the day. February
9, 2005 (Wednesday)
London
(England) After taking Jessica to school, I vacuum the
kitchen thoroughly (I spilt some sugar last night,
or rather the washing machine did, when its
spin-cycle vibrated the work surface), until There
Comes a Great Tumult from Below. Steve F. contacts me about Mike
Liebermann's hate
mail, posted last week on the website. I reply:
"I had to explain to him that I have been subjected
to an unceasing torrent of abuse and persecution
from his people for thirty years; his letter will
gradually disappear down the list, and people will
stop emailing their views to him. I agree, he does
seem to be learning that it is not a one-way
street." Grabert Verlag tell me they are publicising the
new German edition of Dresden well. I
reply: Ich habe absolut und auch
buchstäblich kein Interesse an dem
Verkaufen dieses Dresden-Werkes bei Arndt
Verlag, da Herr Munier den
dazugehörenden Vertrag im August letzten
Jahres mit einem Scheck bezahlt, den er sofort
stornierte, sobald er Bilddatei und sonstige
Materialien von uns dazu erhalten hatte. Wir
haben einen Kieler Rechtsanwalt gegen ihn bzw
seinen Verlag wegen dieses Betrugs jetzt
eingesetzt. Schlimmer als damals bei Herrn
Fleissner! Munier bringt ja nur den alten
Schinken, wie es sich herausstellt, und nicht
die neueste Fassung des Werkes, wollte aber
sogar den neuen Titel dazu anheften! Was wir
durch Androhung einer e V haben verhindern
können. Vorn und hinten ein Betrug. 5:30 pm: It seems that Biddles, our old printers
in King's Lynn, have now found the production-film
for my book "Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third
Reich" after all. That is good news. For three
months they did not even answer our letters, and it
took a letter from our lawyers to get this
admission. We could not have replicated the film
for the colour photos very easily. But I may still
choose to reset the text of the book, as there are
substantial new matters to put in. It has already
run through two editions and been out of print for
four years. To conclude a generally pleasant day, the IHR
forwards this unexpected message for me from C-Span
Television, one of the major serious American and
global networks: they are considering covering
Deborah
Lipstadt's book, "History on Trial," and
"we'd prefer to balance our coverage by giving Mr.
Irving some airtime as well." That would really [tick] off the
traditional enemy of free speech. "Balance their
coverage?" Give me airtime, as well as the world's
greatest expert on the Jewish Holocaust? I reply at 9:26 pm: "Dear A., that is very civil of you to want to
balance your coverage. More on that in a minute.
But: How come you never covered such items as
Lipstadt's
pressurising St
Martin's Press in April 1996 to violate
their contract to publish my Goebbels
biography, the result of eight years' work
by me in the Moscow KGB and other archives?
(Prof Gordon Craig subsequently described
that book in the most glowing terms in a six
page review in the New York Review of
Books -- a book you could not, and still
cannot, buy anywhere in the USA!) It had already
been selected by Doubleday Inc.'s History Book
Club as their Book of the Month for May 1996. That
is just one reason why I loath Deborah. Her
calling me a "Holocaust denier" is another (if
you read the Goebbels book, "Goebbels.
Mastermind of the Third Reich", you will
find I go into previously unknown detail about
the mass
shootings of Jews on the eastern front, but
I am still "a Holocaust denier".)
Interesting for you perhaps, I have put
all my
books on the Internet as free downloads, and
will eventually put all the foreign translations
up there free too: I am not sure it makes sense,
but my gut instinct is that it does! By the way
Deborah L will do all she can to dissuade you
from giving me a fair hearing, even if it means
losing publicity for her book. Just to warn you
of what you will let yourself in for. 2. You already covered from start to finish a
talk I gave in Washington DC about three years
back. You (C-Span) also filmed a lengthy
interview with me at our stand at the BookExpo
in New York's Jacob Javits Center in about 2002.
You were kind enough to broadcast that interview
several times. 3. Now to timetable: Yes. I shall be visiting
the USA [...] and doing a lengthy road
tour lasting two months, speaking
in many cities. Topic: The Real Adolf Hitler
of History. Later, I add a postscript: "Early in March I
shall be speaking at a location in Atlanta, which
is of course on Lipstadt's doorstep." She replies
that the timetable sounds perfect. 
SIMULTANEOUSLY with completing work on the reprint
of Apocalypse
1945: the Destruction of Dresden, I have
burrowed further back into time, scanning our
surviving negative albums to disc. The Nikon SC9000
makes a soft snoring sound in one corner of the
room, taking five or ten minutes to scan each
frame: in a piece of digital wizardry, it makes an
extra "pass" in infra-red, deleting every speck of
dust and scratch on these old films.
So in effect I am traveling back through the
early 1990s -- when I first met B.. She is so
beautiful in those photographs, travelling with me
in South Africa and the United States. One hostile
Leftist magazine later published a photograph of
her and little Jessica, both gloriously blonde, and
added a sneering caption about "Aryans." I
responded silently with the little Edward-Lear-type
rhyme about Rastafarians which provided such glee
to the enemy when they found it in my private
diary. Here we are now, thirteen years on, and her
beauty is undimmed. One benefit of spending most of
the last eight in a darkened room. February
10, 2005 (Thursday)
London
(England) TODAY a Canadian sends me a
link to an item published yesterday in The
Times, London. I had missed it. I can seldom be
bothered nowadays to read newspapers, they are so
passé, so last-century.  Himmler
is Irving's next choice of heroDAVID
IRVING, the Holocaust denier, is planning a new
book to try to restore his reputation -- on SS
chief Heinrich Himmler. Irving,
speaking in a Mayfair coffee shop a week after
the moving ceremonies to mark the 60th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,
said: "I am not interested in survivors --
survivors lie. People lie when money is
involved." The
disgraced historian, who was bankrupted after
being branded a Holocaust denier by a judge in a
failed libel action, is now planning the
biography of Himmler, who was an architect of
the Final Solution. Irving,
who is also writing another book on Winston
Churchill, said: "Because of my reputation, a
lot of private collectors, particularly in the
United States, came forward and gave me access
to material which no one else has
seen. "I
have read 200 letters written by Himmler to his
mistress between 1938 and 1944 which are very
revealing. "I
am deliberately holding them back until I am
released from my bankruptcy on March 5.
Otherwise it would be seized (by the
receivers)...they will be a fitting climax of my
career." Will
the Himmler book be positive about the SS
leader? "It asks the same interesting questions
that I got into trouble for asking about Adolf
Hitler," said Irving. Irving
lost his 2002 libel action against Deborah
Lipstadt, an American academic who said in her
1994 book that he had misinterpreted historical
evidence to minimise Hitler's culpability in the
Holocaust. Mr Justice Gray ruled that Irving was
"an active Holocaust denier, anti-Semitic and
racist" who had "distorted historical data to
suit his own ideological agenda".
I send it to Alan H. in Warsaw -- my preferred
expert on the Reinhardt camps and Auschwitz: "You'll enjoy this, it is the product
of that smooth young a++hole who came and sat
next to us at Starbucks a few days ago. Lesson:
Avoid the Press like the plague." They squandered over Six Million pounds (of
mostly Jewish
money, as they admitted) in the High Court to
get that fancy label of Holocaust denier pinned on
my tail; and now they're getting value for money.
Schoolboy name-calling is the best they've got, and
I am not afear'd of them. One would have thought that if the evidence was
as pikestaff-plain as they maintain, they would not
have needed to spend Six Million pence, let alone
pounds. And is this Lipstadt female the best
champion they can produce? Ho! She sat throughout
the whole court proceedings for three months, too
frightened to open her mouth even once. As for the article, I recall mentioning to the
young gentleman-journalist in Starbucks one
sentence in a letter Himmler wrote to his mistress
in July 1942 -- he was just about to set off on a
three-day tour of Auschwitz, Lublin, etc.; he added
without explanation that there were some ugly
things he was required to do, but he did them for
Germany's sake.  Now,
if our coffeehouse visitor had put that bit in, it
might have skewed the picture that his editor
wanted. He might not have got so many pieces of
Gold in return. "People lie when money is
involved?" -- yes, I may just possibly have said
that. [Previous
Radical's Diary] 
Deutsche
Stimme interviews David Irving at length (in
German) about Dresden, Auschwitz, World War II
and history: "The
German spirit is still enemy-occupied
territory. . ."-
Apologies all round
Outrage
of Auschwitz survivor because Canadian
Television included interview with Prof Norman
Finkelstein | and Mr
Irving's comments
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Auschwitz:
The
Barber's Story -- CNN interviews Pole who claims
to have witnessed Everything | Our
readers comment dismissively
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Our
big Auschwitz file
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David Irving