Second World War Historiography Explained By David Irving
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With
many millions of his [
David Irving ] books in print, including a string of best-sellers
translated into numerous languages, it’s quite possible that the
eighty-year-old Irving today ranks as the most internationally-successful
British historian of the last one hundred years. Although I myself have
merely read a couple of his shorter works, I found these absolutely
outstanding, with Irving regularly deploying his remarkable command of the
primary source documentary evidence to totally demolish my naive History 101
understanding of major historical events..........But fortunately,
Irving is also a riveting speaker, and several of his extended lectures of
recent decades are conveniently available on YouTube, as given below. These
effectively present many of his most remarkable revelations concerning the
wartime policies of both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, as well as
sometimes recounting the challenging personal situation he himself faced.
Watching these lectures may consume several hours, but that is still a
trivial investment compared to the many weeks it would take to digest the
underlying books themselves.
When confronted with astonishing claims that completely overturn an established historical narrative, considerable skepticism is warranted, and my own lack of specialized expertise in World War II history left me especially cautious. The documents Irving unearths seemingly portray a Winston Churchill so radically different from that of my naive understanding as to be almost unrecognizable, and this naturally raised the question of whether I could credit the accuracy of Irving’s evidence and his interpretation. All his material is massively footnoted, referencing copious documents in numerous official archives, but how could I possibly muster the time or energy to verify them?
Rather ironically, an extremely unfortunate turn of events seems to have fully resolved that crucial question. Irving is an individual of uncommonly strong scholarly integrity, and as such he is unable to see things in the record that do not exist, even if it were in his considerable interest to do so, nor to fabricate non-existent evidence. Therefore, his unwillingness to dissemble or pay lip-service to various widely-worshiped cultural totems eventually provoked an outpouring of vilification by a swarm of ideological fanatics drawn from a particular ethnic persuasion. This situation was rather similar to the troubles my old Harvard professor E. O. Wilson had experienced around that same time upon publication of his own masterwork Sociobiology - The New Synthesis, the book that helped launch the field of modern human evolutionary psychobiology.
These zealous ethnic-activists began a coordinated campaign to pressure Irving’s prestigious publishers into dropping his books, while also disrupting his frequent international speaking tours and even lobbying countries to bar him from entry. They maintained a drumbeat of media vilification, continually blackening his name and his research skills, even going so far as to denounce him as a “Nazi” and a “Hitler-lover,” just as had similarly been done in the case of Prof. Wilson.
During the 1980s and 1990s, these determined efforts, sometimes backed by considerable physical violence, increasingly bore fruit, and Irving’s career was severely impacted. He had once been feted by the world’s leading publishing houses and his books serialized and reviewed in Britain’s most august newspapers; now he gradually became a marginalized figure, almost a pariah, with enormous damage to his sources of income.
In 1993, Deborah Lipstadt, rather ignorant and fanatic professor of Theology and Holocaust Studies (or perhaps “Holocaust Theology”) ferociously attacked him in her book as being a “Holocaust Denier,” leading Irving’s timorous publisher to suddenly cancel the contract for his major new historical volume. This development eventually sparked a rancorous lawsuit in 1998, which resulted in a celebrated 2000 libel trial held in British Court.
That legal battle was certainly a David-and-Goliath affair, with wealthy Jewish movie producers and corporate executives providing a huge war-chest of $13 million to Lipstadt’s side, allowing her to fund a veritable army of 40 researchers and legal experts, captained by one of Britain’s most successful Jewish divorce lawyers. By contrast, Irving, being an impecunious historian, was forced to defend himself without benefit of legal counsel.
In real life unlike in fable, the Goliaths of this world are almost invariably triumphant, and this case was no exception, with Irving being driven into personal bankruptcy, resulting in the loss of his fine central London home. But seen from the longer perspective of history, I think the victory of his tormenters was a remarkably Pyrrhic one.
Although the target of their unleashed hatred was Irving’s alleged “Holocaust denial,” as near as I can tell, that particular topic was almost entirely absent from all of Irving’s dozens of books, and exactly that very silence was what had provoked their spittle-flecked outrage. Therefore, lacking such a clear target, their lavishly-funded corps of researchers and fact-checkers instead spent a year or more apparently performing a line-by-line and footnote-by-footnote review of everything Irving had ever published, seeking to locate every single historical error that could possibly cast him in a bad professional light. With almost limitless money and manpower, they even utilized the process of legal discovery to subpoena and read the thousands of pages in his bound personal diaries and correspondence, thereby hoping to find some evidence of his “wicked thoughts.” Denial, a 2016 Hollywood film co-written by Lipstadt, may provide a reasonable outline of the sequence of events as seen from her perspective.
Yet despite such massive financial and human resources, they apparently came up almost entirely empty, at least if Lipstadt’s triumphalist 2005 book History on Trial may be credited. Across four decades of research and writing, which had produced numerous controversial historical claims of the most astonishing nature, they only managed to find a couple of dozen rather minor alleged errors of fact or interpretation, most of these ambiguous or disputed. And the worst they discovered after reading every page of the many linear meters of Irving’s personal diaries was that he had once composed a short “racially insensitive” ditty for his infant daughter, a trivial item which they naturally then trumpeted as proof that he was a “racist.” Thus, they seemingly admitted that Irving’s enormous corpus of historical texts was perhaps 99.9% accurate.
I think this silence of “the dog that didn’t bark” echoes with thunderclap volume. I’m not aware of any other academic scholar in the entire history of the world who has had all his decades of lifetime work subjected to such painstakingly exhaustive hostile scrutiny. And since Irving apparently passed that test with such flying colors, I think we can regard almost every astonishing claim in all of his books—as recapitulated in his videos—as absolutely accurate.
Aside from this important historical conclusion, I believe that the most recent coda to Irving’s tribulations tells us quite a lot about the true nature of “Western liberal democracy” so lavishly celebrated by our media pundits, and endlessly contrasted with the “totalitarian” or “authoritarian” characteristics of its ideological rivals, past and present.
In 2005, Irving took a quick visit to Austria, having been invited to speak before a group of Viennese university students. Shortly after his arrival, he was arrested at gunpoint by the local Political Police on charges connected with some historical remarks he had made 16 years earlier on a previous visit to that country, although those had apparently been considered innocuous at the time. Initially, his arrest was kept secret and he was held completely incommunicado; for his family back in Britain, he seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth, and they feared him dead. More than six weeks were to pass before he was allowed to communicate with either his wife or a lawyer, though he managed to provide word of his situation earlier through an intermediary.
And at the age of 67 he was eventually brought to trial in a foreign courtroom under very difficult circumstances and given a three-year prison sentence. An interview he gave to the BBC about his legal predicament resulted in possible additional charges, potentially carrying a further twenty-year sentence, which probably would have ensured that he died behind bars. Only the extremely good fortune of a successful appeal, partly on technical grounds, allowed him to depart the prison grounds after spending more than 400 days under incarceration, almost entirely in solitary confinement, and he escaped back to Britain.
His sudden, unexpected disappearance had inflicted huge financial hardships upon his family, and they lost their home, with most of his personal possessions being sold or destroyed, including the enormous historical archives he had spent a lifetime accumulating. He later recounted this gripping story in Banged Up, a slim book published in 2008, as well as in a video interview available on YouTube.
Video Link
Perhaps I am demonstrating my ignorance, but I am not
aware of any similar case of a leading international scholar who suffered
such a dire fate for quietly stating his historical opinions, even during in
darkest days of Stalinist Russia or any of the other totalitarian regimes of
the twentieth century. Although this astonishing situation taking place in a
West European democracy of the “Free World” did receive considerable media
exposure within Europe, coverage in our own country was so minimal that I
doubt that today even one well-educated American in twenty is even aware it
ever happened.
One reason that most of us still believe that the West remains a free society is that Our American Pravda works so hard to conceal the important exceptions.
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Introduction to HITLER’S WAR
David Irving • 1991 • 11,000 Words
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Ron Unz, a Jew writes at length and gives
David Irving the best
of it, with the Jew,
Lipstadt a very bad second.
Jews Defeated Hitler
Jews did not do the fighting. That was hard work and dangerous but
manipulating politicians is far more effective.
Hitler's Economic Miracle
Made
him very popular in Germany. He brought them prosperity as distinct from the
ugly reality of the starvation caused by the
Versailles Treaty.
Wall
Street Financed Adolf
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Finally, a distinguished scholar
has penetrated the cloak of falsehood, deception, and duplicity that for more
than thirty years has protected one of the most incredible secrets of World War
II: the support from key Wall Street financiers and other international bankers
in subsidizing Hitler's rise to power.
Professor Antony C. Sutton proves
that World War II was not only well planned, it was also extremely
profitable—for a select group of financial insiders. Carefully tracing this
closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts,
Sutton documents the roles played by J.P. Morgan, T. W. Lamont, the Rockefeller
interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and
Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and scores of other business elitists.
Wall Street and the
Rise of Hitler shows how the bloodiest, most destructive war in history was
financed and promoted. It is sure to spark angry denials and heated debate.
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Adolf sorted out Hyperinflation in Germany.
Nobody was telling us how. Now the truth emerges. The
Merchants of Death did well out of it as
well.
Adolf was greatly helped by the Burning of the Reichstag. He was able to blame "the enemy". It was burnt down in 1933 by a Dutch lunatic. One witness was Sefton Delmer, a Jew brought up in Germany. His account is at Sefton Delmer’s Account of the Burning of the Reichstag
National Socialism Or International Socialism?
What real difference is there between Adolf's socialism and Lenin's? Apart from
the slogans, the uniforms, not a lot. The other lot murdered far more than little
Adolf - see The Black Book of Communism
on the point. One significant difference is that international socialism has
travelled better than the nationalist version but then it is marketed by the
people with no land who wanted a land with no people - apart from hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians. Jews are the Puppet
Masters, manipulating politicians, making wars. Was Adolf
wrong about them?
Adolf made it by his own efforts. So did Lenin while Obama is a puppet put in place by the Jews who pull the strings.
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Adolf had views. What were they? Find out what he wrote. He had view about
Jews and reasons for them. The translator's note gives useful background.
Read for yourself. Then think for yourself and decide for yourself.
Otto
Skorzeny Quoted About Adolf
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I would never have surrendered, because of my pledge as a German officer. But
when Hitler died, that pledge ended. By killing himself, Hitler saved thousands
of lives. They relieved us of our oaths as soldiers.
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A sound point
since the Wehrmacht oath was to Adolf in person rather than the president.
What They Said About Adolf Then
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What they once
said:
" ... There can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvelous
transformation in the spirit of the people,
in their attitude towards each other, and in their social and economic
outlook ... The people are more
cheerful. There is a greater sense of general gaiety
of spirit throughout the land. It is a
happier
—
Former British Prime Minister DAVID LLOYD
GEORGE, Daily Express,
September 17th, 1936
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement.
If our country were
defeated I should hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore
our courage and
lead us back to our place among the nations.”
— WINSTON
CHURCHILL, Step by Step, p.143
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He had
his admirers then and now. Winnie changed his mind when he saw what the game
was. The
Wiki is much less
admiring.
Adolf Hitler ex Wiki
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Adolf Hitler ( 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an
Austrian-born
German politician and the leader of the
National
Socialist German Workers Party (German:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,
abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was
Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and, after 1934, also
head
of state as
Führer und
Reichskanzler, ruling the country as an absolute dictator.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919 and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a failed coup called the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923, for which he was imprisoned. Following his imprisonment, in which he wrote [ dictated in fact - Editor ] his book, Mein Kampf, he gained support by promoting German nationalism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor in 1933, and quickly transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideals of national socialism.
Hitler ultimately wanted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe. To achieve this, he pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Aryan people; directing the resources of the state towards this goal. This included the rearmament of Germany, which culminated in 1939 when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. In response, the United Kingdom and France declared war against Germany, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
Within three years, Germany and the Axis powers had occupied most of Europe, and most of Northern Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. However, with the reversal of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Allies gained the upper hand from 1942 onwards. By 1945, Allied armies had invaded German-held Europe from all sides. Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war, including the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, including an estimated six million Jews targeted in the Holocaust and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma, Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents.
In the final days of the war, during the
Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress
Eva Braun
and, to avoid capture by Soviet forces less than two days later, the two
committed suicide
on 30 April 1945.
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A rather long article concentrating on the
politics. It does not explain how hyperinflation [ but see below ] was caused or
how it was sorted out.
Financial Problems
Solved
Germany and Adolf had financial problems. The
Versailles Treaty imposed
crushing debts leading to Hyperinflation.
They were sorted and the system keeps very quiet about how it was done. This
is an important clue pointing to the perpetrators. How many bankers are
stinking rich? More to the point how many are poor now?
Hyperinflation
Is much faster than ordinary inflation which is slow robbery. Hyperinflation
destroys people's saving fast. The damage is enormous as Germans found in the
1930s. But dear old
Adolf sorted it out using
Labour Treasury Certificates.
88 Second Silence For
Adolf
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We invite you to join with National
Socialists around the world at 3:30 pm Central European Time / 2:30 pm GMT (9:30
am EDT/8:30 am CDT / 7:30 am MDT / 6:30 am PDT) on Saturday, 30 April, for 88
seconds of silence in solemn tribute to our immortal Leader, who—at exactly that
time in Berlin 66 years ago—fulfilled his earthly mission and offered up his
life for a better world to come.
— NEW ORDER
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This is going to be a hard one to sell. Presumably the
88 seconds corresponds to HH or Heil Hitler. Doing it in Germany might be
illegal.
