Peter
Wibber
inquires about Mr Irving’s contacts with Hitler’s adjutants, Monday,
April 15, 2002

Did
Von Below really write this?

I JUST obtained a book by Nicolaus Von
Below, Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant from 1937-1945,
entitled: At Hitler’s side. What amazed me about
the book was that right away in the introduction he
blasts you for untrue statements. Von Below indicated
that he either burned or had burned all his papers and
diaries at the close of the war.

He says in his first foot note:

It
is inexplicable why the British historian David
Irving should insert in the Foreword to his book
Hitler and his Generals (1975) that my diaries are
“probably in Moscow”. Another Statement by Irving
astonishes me: I am supposed to have put at his
disposal “unpublished contemporaneous manuscripts and
letters” and “subsequently took the trouble —
together with others — to read through many pages of
the text based upon them”.

I do remember several
visits by Irving, when I answered some questions; but
the rest is untrue.–Author

Now the book was initially published in Germany in
1980, making him 72 at the time. That’s five years after your book. It seems strange such a famous elderly man would give you such prominence quite a long time later.
The English translation when this book came out was in the year 2001. I am wondering whether this was newly inserted in the American edition and wasn’t in the German at all.

Also note 24 says if you want the true figures for the death toll at Dresden you should look at The
Irving Judgment: “David Irving v. Penguin
Books and Professor Deborah Lipstadt” [London,
2001] p. 334 from Mr. Justice Gray.

My parents are German and I have been around enough
Germans all my life, long enough to know that for such sources, their natural inclination would be to refer to a
German source, not some foreigner.

This note is not attributed to the author but does not indicate if it comes from the translator. In fact, there is no reference who made this note at all. To me the close proximity of this trial and these entries makes it smell to high heaven and does not come from Von Below at all.

Peter
Wibber

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