Peter Wibber inquires about Mr Irving’s contacts with Hitler’s adjutants, 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 Another Statement by Irving astonishes me: I am supposed to have put at his disposal “unpublished contemporaneous manuscripts and letters” and “subsequently took the trouble — together with others — to read through many pages of the text based upon them”.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 David Irving replies: WHO published the US edition you refer to? But you are right.

The late Nicolas von Below (and his wife Maria ) were very good friends of myself and my wife; he invited me to visit many times in Detmold and Bochum, where he lived, and in about 1967 he made available to me his typescript memoirs, which he had never published. His son is unfortuntely a typical pinko-Lefty, as a result of the post-war brainwashing. (His daughter Mrs. Manfredo Macioti of Rue G. Stocq 16, Brussels 1050, has all her father’s photo albums.)

Hitler with Himmler at the Berghof (the navy captain with his