Historical timeline
Every item is placed by its original historical date, with precision recorded separately for approximate and partial dates.
David Irving's Biographie des Generalfeldmarschalls Erhard Milch, Stellvertreter Görings, Architekt der deutschen Luftwaffe und der Deutschen Lufthansa: Die Tragödie der deutschen Luftwaffe Aus den Akten und Erinnerungen von Feldmarschall Milch...
Read the recordRight: Walther Hewel (center) with Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann, at the Berghof, Obersalzberg (photo: Walter Frentz)On Dec 8, 1970, while researching for his Hitler biography, David Irving...
Read the recordVendetta of John Lukacs against David Irving since 1972 The Malicious Vendetta of John Lukacs against David Irving since 1972 AFTER John Lukács published his book The Hitler of History in 1997, several Americans rushed to David Irving copies of the book's odious references to him. He fired a warning...
Read the recordSoundbites IN my judgement The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe ranks with Albert Speer's memoirs Inside the Third Reich as by far the most important book on Hitler's Germany to have appeared. . .
Read the recordPROFESSOR RAUL HILBERG, the leading expert, answers David Irving's question on Hitler's role in The Holocaust The Question . . . 81 DUKE STREET LONDON W.
Read the recordYES indeed. It was Wednesday July 6, 1976; I had completed work on the first edition of Hitler's War, which The Viking Press (New York) were to publish in 1977; Ullstein Verlag had just published it in Germany in May as Hitler und seine Feldherren, their chief…
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR “ Eclipse ” Hitler recognized that the end of what he envisioned as his lone fight against bolshevism was approaching, and there are clues in the documents as to how long he believed he could postpone it : for example, he had ordered the General Staff to provide the Berlin...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Hitler Goes to Ground What intangible forces sustained Hitler during these last dark weeks and in turn allowed him to sustain others ? Schopenhauer identifies a certain rare character whom Fate has raised from total obscurity to eminence and who ever afterward believes...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Waiting for a Telegram When he awoke at 9 A.M. on January 16, 1945, his train was approaching the capital. Snowdrifts concealed Berlin’s cruelest injuries. Forty minutes later he was being driven from Grunewald station to the Reich Chancellery. The old wing, scene of his...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR PART 6 ENDKAMPF The Gamble It was a calculated risk that Hitler was taking, but he and his military advisers recognized that they had no choice. Hitler himself reflected early in December 1944 that his own life was virtually spent in any case : before World War I he had...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR On the Brink of a Volcano On October 15, 1944, the day after Rommel’s sudden death, Hitler’s agents deposed the Hungarian regent, Admiral Nikolaus Horthy, and brought “a thousand years of Hungarian history” to an end. The Nazi coup in Budapest had its origins in July, when...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Rommel Gets a Choice “I have always said,” remarked Hitler as autumn 1944 approached, “the time is not ripe for a political decision. I think I may say I have shown often enough in my life that I know how to score political triumphs ; I need hardly add that I won’t let a...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR He Who Rides a Tiger August 1944 saw many of the intricate problems facing Hitler solved of their own accord, though not as he had wished. When September arrived, he no longer had to concern himself with Petain’s puppet government in France, for France was lost ; nor with...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR “ Do You Recognize My Voice ? ” “We got back to the Wolf’s Lair yesterday,” wrote Martin Bormann on July 15, 1944. “With its twenty-two-foot-thick bunkers it is now really a fortress of the most modern kind.” As Hitler’s Condor touched down at Rastenburg airfield, fifteen...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR PART 5 THE WORMS TURN Man with a Yellow Leather Briefcase During the night the news of the parachute and glider landings in Normandy hardened, and ships’ engines were heard offshore. But the Führer was not awakened ; his adjutants consulted with Jodl, who pointed out that...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR The Most Reviled Thus the Ukraine was lost—the fertile countryside for which Hitler had invaded Russia. The German invaders had been driven out by the Soviet armies and—not least—by the disappointed, deceived, and angry Ukrainians themselves. “If the rest of this war and...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Trouble from Providence The Hitler of early 1944 was unlike the confident Führer who had set out for the Polish front in his train in September 1939. His animal energy and abnormal willpower remained unsapped, but his appearance had undergone a shocking change. Werner Best...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR “ And So It Will Be, Mein Führer ! ” In four years, the wheel had turned full circle, and Hitler had once again to attend to the western front. Throughout the winter it remained his constant preoccupation as he devoured Intelligence reports or enemy dispatches that had...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Feelers to Stalin While in the north Hitler’s troops stood their ground, the Russian offensive during September and October 1943 swept over Novorossisk, Bryansk, Poltava, Smolensk, Dnepropetrovsk ; and on November 6, Kiev itself fell. Army Groups South and Center had...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR “ Axis ” In the week immediately following Mussolini’s overthrow, Hitler vacillated between two extremes : his initial instinct was to send paratroops to Rome, flush out the monarchy, the traitors, and the Vatican, and restore the “wronged” dictator to power. He refused to...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Correcting the Front Line No month brought such concentrated high drama as July 1943. “Citadel” began, the enemy invaded Italian soil, the Russians sprang their own great summer offensive, and Mussolini was ousted by his monarch just as Hitler had always predicted. (Had he...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Clutching at Straws By the spring of 1943 the Axis alliance was a myth, and Hitler knew it. In Tunisia, Montgomery’s offensive had succeeded and the Axis bridgehead was being inexorably crushed. Late in February the Italians had already hinted that the loss of Tunis might...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Strychnine Until mid-March 1943 Hitler remained in the Ukraine, seven hundred miles from Berlin. Werewolf in winter was a bleak and dreary site. Battle-scarred aircraft stood around the local airfield ; the countryside was neglected ; impoverished Ukrainian peasants with...
Read the recordDavid Irving HITLER’S WAR Retreat Hitler saw in the New Year, 1943, sitting alone in his bunker with Martin Bormann, his Party secretary, until after 4:00 A.M. This itself presaged the coming times : in the year that followed a significant part of Hitler’s domestic authority was delegated to a...
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