 David Irving[Photo by Michael Hentz, for The
New York Times]Letter to Bill Glauber,
The Baltimore Sun,
London Bureau
(not published)
The New York Times alleged in a story that,
contrary to what he had said, David Irving had withheld the
Goebbels
Diaries from the German archives, and had cheated Munich
historian Elke Fröehlich of the credit for discovering
the diaries in Moscow. |
London, June 5, 1996 Dear Bill
JUST TO
refute those two lies in the NYT piece:
1. I handed to Dr Büttner the deputy president of the
Bundesarchiv (German federal archives) in Koblenz at 9:10
a.m. on July 1, 1993 a package containing original copies of
every page of the Goebbels diaries which I had retrieved
from Moscow and other sources, and which were not yet in
their possession, as a gift from me. Ten minutes later I was
formally expelled from the Bundesarchiv, permanently. The
diaries which I handed over have remained in their
possession ever since, whatever they say. -- I also donated
a complete set of these diaries two days earlier to the city
archives (archivist: Stadtarchivoberinspektor Lamers)
in Goebbels' home town, Mönchen-Gladbach.
2. On May 26, 1992, the day that I first approached the
Sunday Times to offer to them the diaries, I
notified their editor in chief Andrew Neil in writing that I
myself made no claim to have discovered the diaries, for
which credit was due to Elke Fröhlich in Munich. I
attached also the relevant page from my diary on my talk
with her which made this plain. In order not to lose her
job, she had pleaded with me not to allow this fact (that
she had given me the tip) to become public knowledge
however. I am stunned that the NYT would
publish such allegations without checking their
facts.
Yours faithfully,
David Irving |
David Irving 1998