Reader’s Mail to David Irving’s website about Auschwitz — Apr 2004

about Auschwitz your Heinrich Himmler Index your Adolf Eichmann Index your your Rudolf Hoess Index your Hans Aumeier Index your Robert Jan Van Pelt Index James Cowell asks for good archival sources, April 3, 2004, which answer the question, what did the German people know, and wheh did they know it? What did they know, and when did they know it? I AM a senior high school student and have to do a major research project on an area of historical debate as part of my extension history course.

I thought I would look at the general German population’s knowledge of the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities e.g. the Einsatzgruppen killings in the occupied territories. I really admire your campaign for real history and strive to reach that same level of objectivity and truth in my final research thesis. I wrote to you as I am having trouble finding reliable sources or texts on the subject.

Quite a lot of the material is published by Jewish associations, who claim that the German population knew whole-heartedly what the Nazis were carrying out and assisted them in carrying out of the Final Solution. I find this view rather extreme, as one cannot generalize on a subject such as this. I thought that you might know of sources, books or even have material that could assist me in my research.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for continuing my investigations I would really appreciate it. James Cowell