Donald Bady throws more light on the profound wisdom: Donald Bady throws more light on the profound wisdom of “Skunky” Evans about World War Two, on February 2, 2008 David Irving sharing a joked with form…
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Donald
Bady
throws more light on the profound wisdom of “Skunky” Evans about World War Two, on February 2, 2008
David
Irving sharing a joked with former Reich Minister
Albert Speer over dinner at the Frankfurt Book Fair
in 1979.
“Skunky”
Evans and his grandma’s unexploded bomb
THIS relates to the discussion about sabotage in the German munitions industry that we had during lunch at the Berkeley last May
[2007].
Adam Tooze‘s book The Wages of
Destruction was reviewed in the New York
Review of Books by your unloved “Colleague” Richard J. Evans.
The review gave rise to a letter from a scientist, John Diebold, who commented on the impact of forced labour in armaments production. Saying that he had experience with
German explosives made in 1939-1940 and then found that those produced from 1943 to be
“…typically weak or noneffective. This difference I ascribe either to intentional sabotage by the ‘Jews and concentration camp inmates’ or to the simple substituion of inert materials for active ones by munitions plant managers, presumably due to the conflict between production quotas and availablility of nitrates. Speer was apparently not above “production for production’s sake” with a blind eye to quality control…”.
Well, apart from this tidbit, Evans replies to
Diebold “…No one can be sure how widespread sabotage by munitions workers was, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence, including a story I can contribute myself. A German bomb fell through the roof of my wife’s grandmother’s house in the
East End of London in 1943 and lodged, unexploded, in her bedroom wardrobe. When the bomb disposal unit opened it up, they found a note inside: “Don’t worry, English” it said, “we’re with you. Polish workers.”