Title — Feb 2026

Documents on the Fight for Real History

From
Lucy Dawidowicz:

“The
Holocaust and the Historians”

(Harvard
University Press).

Text supplied by

Mr Ross
Vicksell, 11 Foster Road Burlington, MA 01803 USA

[See Mr
Iving’s reply to
Vicksell]

pages
34-38:“This
Wicked Man Hitler”

---

[Cf. the pamphlet published in 1993 and peddled by the
ADL entitled David
Irving’s Hitler. A Faulty History
Dissected.]

[.
. .]^[1][2]
Irving’s thesis, which denies Hitler’s
responsibility for the murder of the Jews, is too
preposterous to require refutation and argument but one
example will suffice to show his “scholarly” method. As
seemingly irrefutable proof for his case, Mr. Irving
offered an entry in Himmler’s handwritten telephone log.

On
November 30, 1941, at 1:30 P.M., Himmler, then in
Hitler’s military headquarters bunker “Wolf’s Lair”,
telephoned SS Obergruppen-Führer Heydrich, then in
Prague. The gist of the telephone message was entered in
four short lines in
the log,
though Irving cited only
the last two lines[*]:

Judentransport
aus Berlin keine Liquidierung

That is: ‘Transport of Jews from Berlin. No liquidation.”

From this Mr. Irving concluded that Hitler had somehow learned what Himmler was up to and had ordered him to stop. An obedient man, Himmler had called Heydrich in Prague to transmit Hitler’s order. But in view of everything we know about the destruction of the Jews, Irving’s construction of events makes no sense. If Himmler continued to kill the Jews long after November 30, 1941, why did he order the liquidation of this one transport stopped?

If he deceived Hitler before and after about the murder of the Jews, why should he be honest about it this once? Besides, what became of that transport of Jews from
Berlin? Were they returned home? Irving’s conclusion fails to provide a satisfactory explanation of those two lines In view of what actually happened. though it serves to support his perversely fanciful interpretation of
Hitler’s character.

To understand those two lines it is necessary to read also the first two lines of the telephone conversation. Here is the full German text:

Verhaftung
Dr. Jekelius (name not fully decipherable)
Angebl [ich] Sohn Molotows. Judentransport aus Berlin.
keine Liquidierung.^[3]

That is: Arrest Dr. Jekelius. Presumably Molotov’s son.
Transport of Jews from Berlin. No liquidation.

The last two lines now make sense. Himmler called Heydrich to instruct him that a certain Dr. Jekelius, presumed to be the Soviet Foreign Minister’s son, was to be taken in custody by the security police. Jekelius could be located in the transport of Jews from Berlin arriving in
Prague
[sic &emdash; should be ‘Riga’.

FPP Website]
and, unlike the rest of the transports was not to be liquidated. (Perhaps the Germans intended to exchange
Jekelius for one of their officers captured by the
Russians.)

lrving, wittingly or unwittingly, has in fact disproved his own theory. For if Hitler was indeed responsible for
Himmler’s call (there is no evidence that he was), then
Irving has shown that Hitler did in fact know all about the murder of the Jews. And indeed, how else could it have been? The murder of the Jews was Hitler’s most consistent policy, in whose execution he persisted relentlessly, and obsessiveness with the Jews may even have cost him his war for the ‘Thousand Year
Reich.'”

End
notes:

1. David
   Irving. Hitler’s War (New York: Viking, 1977). Irving’s
   work has been described as ‘revisionist.’ but the label
   is improperly applied, Irving is merely an apologist for
   Hitler and deserves no consideration as a historian,
   revisionist or otherwise.
2. His first
   book, The Destruction of Dresden (London: W.

   Kimber,
   1963), caused a sensation by its accusation that the
   Anglo-American raids on Dresden in February 1945
   constituted a major war atrocity. Irving’s book, which
   exaggerated threefold the number of deaths that actually
   occurred and made unfounded charges about Allied actions,
   has since been refuted. Two of this later books,
   Accident: The Death of General Sikorski (London: W.
   Kimber, 1967), and The Destruction of Convoy PQ.17 (New
   York: Simon and Schuster, 1969), prompted legal action.

   Irving lost both cases and had to pay damages and costs
   of about £45,000 in the libel suit on Convoy PQ 17. [see
   Note 2 below]

3. Irving,
   Hitler’s War, p. 332; Himmler’s handwritten notes appear
   on p.505 and are here reproduced from the National
   Archives Microfilm Publication T84, roll 26. I wish to
   acknowledge the help of Dr.

   Fred Grubel, director of the
   Leo Baeck Institute, in deciphering the script and its
   meaning. [see
   Note 3 below] Nearly
   every reviewer who considered Irving’s “evidence” tried
   to explain this document. No one thought to look up the
   item in its entirely. Martin Broszat comes up with a very
   convoluted but unconvincing explanation. “Hitler und die
   Genesis der ‘ Endlösung,'” Vierteljahrshefte
   für Zeitgeschichte, October 1977), 739-775.

Comments by David Irving

See
my letter to Ross Vicksell, posted on this
website.

1. In fact I published the whole page of Himmler’s entries for November 30, 1941
as a facsimile document in every edition of this book.
Those four lines read in full:

Verhaftung
Dr Jekelius Angebl. Sohn Molotow. Judentransport aus Berlin. Keine Liquidierung.

Literally translated as: “Arrest [=noun] Dr Jekelius.
Alleg[ed] Son of Molotov. Jew Transport from
Berlin. No Liquidation.”

2. It is totally untrue that I lost a libel action over the
Sikorski book. As for the PQ.17
libel action, see this website.

3. Note that Lucy Dawidowicz and the ADL’s hired hacks, who appear to have had trouble even reading Himmler’s (old-German) handwriting, have ignored a further entry in
Himmler’s telephone log, recording another call to
Heydrich on April 20, 1942, after visiting Hitler yet again (it was of course Hitler’s Birthday):

“Keine
Vernichtung der Zigeuner.”

The
Gypsies were not to be liquidated either: yet they were, in large numbers.

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