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The role of Elke Fröhlich
It is correct that Miss Fröhlich's brief for her research for Mr Irving on the extermination of the Jews was limited to searching for a Hitler order and only in the archives of the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich; work which took about 40 hours or six weeks part-time. What I failed to make clear, however, is that she worked much longer on other aspects of the book and in other archives besides Munich. Moreover, she wishes to emphasise that her role as 'Devil's advocate,' mentioned by Mr Irving on the Frost show, referred to an aspect of the book totally unconnected with the question of the Jews. While Miss Fröhlich confirms that she finds Mr Irving's thesis about Hitler's ignorance of the extermination of the Jews 'ludicrous.' Their association was eventually broken off on other grounds. My apologies for the misunderstanding. Gitta Sereny | |
July 24, 1977 |
IN
the article Mr Irving's Hitler (July 10) it would appear
that I slightly misunderstood some of the information given
to me by Elke Fröhlich, the young German
historian mentioned by David Irving in his book and on
TV.
MR IRVING still has the detailed letters of
instruction he sent to this researcher Mrs
Fröhlich and her pay slips, as well as her
interview notes and the index cards she typed for him in the
various archives in which she carried out her research
(including the Munich Institut für Zeitgeschichte, the
Berlin Document Center, the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv
in Freiburg, the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, and the Bavarian
State archives in Nuremberg. |
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