⚠️ Historical Documentation Notice
Historical Documentation Notice

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London, August 4, 1997Dear Dr Browning,[1]I wrote you this letter a few weeks ago c/o Cambridge University Historical Journal, and apologise if you already received it. I have just noticed that you once published a reply to Martin Broszat’s review in the Institut für Zeitgeschichte journal VfZ, 1977, of my book Hitler’s War.

As you can imagine I was not too pleased by Broszat’s review, and he refused me permission to publish my own response which I thought was rather shabby (for example: he accused me of manipulating translations of the Tischgespräche, without realising that what I had used were the original Bormann-Vermerke, provided to me by François Genoud).Could I ask you for a copy of your response, which appears to have been published in the January 1981 VfZ?

I would happily pay copying costs, or perhaps you would accept in response a copy of my published German transcription (and annotation) of the entire 1938 Goebbels diary. Yours faithfully,David Irving [He did not reply] Dear Dr Browning,[1]I wrote you this letter a few weeks ago c/o Cambridge University Historical Journal, and apologise if you already received it.

I have just noticed that you once published a reply to Martin Broszat’s review in the Institut für Zeitgeschichte journal VfZ, 1977, of my book Hitler’s War.

As you can imagine I was not too pleased by Broszat’s review, and he refused me permission to publish my own response which I thought was rather shabby (for example: he accused me of manipulating translations of the Tischgespräche, without realising that what I had used were the original Bormann-Vermerke, provided to me by François Genoud).Could I ask you for a copy of your response, which appears to have been published in the January 1981 VfZ?

I would happily pay copying costs, or perhaps you would accept in response a copy of my published German transcription (and annotation) of the entire 1938 Goebbels diary. Yours faithfully,David Irving [He did not reply] Could I ask you for a copy of your response, which appears to have been published in the January 1981 VfZ? I would happily pay copying costs, or perhaps you would accept in response a copy of my published German transcription (and annotation) of the entire 1938 Goebbels diary.

Yours faithfully,David Irving [He did not reply] Yours faithfully,David Irving [He did not reply]

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Original Publication: 1997-08-04
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 4, 2026