“It
is inexplicable why the British historian David Irving
should assert 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Another statement by Irving astonishes me: I am supposed to have put at his disposal “unpublished contemporaneous manuscripts and letters” and “subsequently took the trouble-together with others-to read through many pages of the text based upon them”.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