DAVID
IRVING replies:
THE Rosenberg papers, an interesting question. get hold of the typescript
Werner Koeppen table talk notes which he made at
Hitler’s headquarters for Rosenberg. K is now dead, and the notes (200pp) are on National Archive microfilm (T84
series, or T82 I think).
As for the rest, the first place to look is the Bundesarchiv, but that stuff is well known. Address:
- Bundesarchiv
- Postfach 320
- 56003 Koblenz,
oder - Potsdamer Straße
1 - 56075 Koblenz
- Germany
I am not sure if the formerly US controlled Berlin Document Center had a file of them.
Those papers are on microfilm at the National Archives and the person to ask there is initially John
Taylor. Mention my name.
Try too the Institut für
Zeitgeschichte
- Institut für
Zeitgeschichte - • z. Hd. Dr Werner
Röder, Archiv • - Leonrodstraße
46b - 80636
München - Germany
Hans Günter Seraphim
published Rosenberg’s diaries in extract only, as the bulk of them went missing. He told me, as did Dr Hans
Adolf Jacobsen at the Institut für
Zeitgeschichte in Munich forty years ago, that they had reason to believe that the Rosenberg diaries had been stolen from Nuremberg trial archives by the late Dr
Robert M W Kempner, whose wife was also a religious scholar.
Kempner certainly quoted passages from the diaries in his books, which are not the Seraphim edition.
I asked Kempner pointblank during a visit in the 1970s, and got the impression that the best of the stuff was safe in his New York apartment.
Where, then are the Kempner papers which may contain them? Well, have a look at my website at
https://fpp.co.uk/History/General/Kempner1.html
and you will see that there is a real squabble brewing over them.
Finally, a California gentleman has a trunkfull of Frank, Himmler, Rosenberg and other items. I have seen them, and he may provide copies of the Rosenberg stuff to you. He is
- Erich Lorenz von
Benndorff - 10225 Los
Nopalitos - Lakeside
- CA 92040 USA
again mention my name.
Sorry I can’t be more of more help. Please keep me informed of the result of your search, particular in the Kempner direction. I myself am now working up on Himmler.