David Irving (or whoever runs his social media) just announced that he is making his archives that he used for his books available to the public. It's free until March 31, 2026.
Here it is:
https://irvingcollection.org/
This should be useful for revisionists. So use it while you can!
David Irving Archive Collection
Online
Re: David Irving Archive Collection
Thanks, fireofice.
One item on my wish list is the Milch diaries and this appears to be on the site. There are several Milch diary items. I'm not sure which one has what I want, but best guess would be this one.
https://irvingcollection.org/item/erhar ... file-dj59/
I have not downloaded anything yet. Looks like you have to "buy" it for $0.00. Presumably they want to build up a customer database. It is a reasonable compromise to make things available for free for a while and then to try to get some revenue. The item above says the regular price is $100 which is pretty steep. But I'm sure they will have sales. Irving once made the mistake of donating materials to Institut fur Zeitgeschichte and was subsequently barred from viewing his own files (unclear if the institute banned him or the loss of access was because he could not go to Germany at the time.)
Anyway, I'm interested in the Milch diaries because of something Irving said at the Zundel trial.
I would also have interest in British Foreign Office files. The old Irving website had a transcription of the famous Cavendish-Bentinck memos. But when I did a search on the site I found only German Foreign Office files (also of interest but I don't know if I'm the man for the job there. I think I would need to read more secondary literature first before tackling that.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20241026171 ... tinck.html
P.S. We should have some sort of project to preserve and digitize Mattogno's document collection.
One item on my wish list is the Milch diaries and this appears to be on the site. There are several Milch diary items. I'm not sure which one has what I want, but best guess would be this one.
https://irvingcollection.org/item/erhar ... file-dj59/
I have not downloaded anything yet. Looks like you have to "buy" it for $0.00. Presumably they want to build up a customer database. It is a reasonable compromise to make things available for free for a while and then to try to get some revenue. The item above says the regular price is $100 which is pretty steep. But I'm sure they will have sales. Irving once made the mistake of donating materials to Institut fur Zeitgeschichte and was subsequently barred from viewing his own files (unclear if the institute banned him or the loss of access was because he could not go to Germany at the time.)
https://joel-hayward.historiography-pro ... /11-irvingHe has been generous with his extensive research files, donating his entire archive to the Munich Institut für Zeitgeschichte, where they are freely available to all historians and writers.[7] He has also prepared microfilm copies of most of his files, which are obtainable from an English microfilm company. The present writer knows of no other historic as bounteous with a personal historical document collection.
https://www.hdot.org/judge/The principal source for the claim that Hitler was observed by Eberstein, Chief of Police in Munich, to be "livid with rage" is said by Irving to be Hitler's chief former personal adjutant, Wilhelm Bruckner. Irving obtained Bruckner's papers from his son and donated them to the Institute of History in Munich to which Irving no longer has access. He was therefore unable to produce documentary verification of Bruckner's account.
Anyway, I'm interested in the Milch diaries because of something Irving said at the Zundel trial.
https://www.ihr.org/books/kulaszka/35irving.htmlChristie turned to Did Six Million Really Die? and some of the specific allegations made in it. Did Irving know of any indication that Ohlendorf, for example, was tortured?
"Oh, yes," said Irving. "The SS General Ohlendorf and the SS General Pohl were both very severely maltreated at Nuremberg and in the internment camps where they were held by the Allies after the Second World War and prior to their testimony. They subsequently testified to that to their fellow prisoners like Field Marshal Milch, who kept a diary which I have and also in the subsequent trials...Field-Marshal Milch was the second person in the German air force. He was threatened with severe punishment unless he testified against Göring. On November the 5th, 1945, an American, who is a Major Ernst Engländer, who is a Wall Street financier, who presented himself to Milch as Major Evans, instructed him that he would be subjected to a war crimes trial unless he agreed to perjure himself against Göring. Milch refused to perjure himself and although there was an animosity between himself and Göring, he went into the witness stand and spoke in defence of Göring and on the next day, Milch was thrown into the punishment bunker at Dachau concentration camp, a bunker which had been designed by the SS to hold one recalcitrant prisoner, but which the Americans were using rather more economically in as much as they put six prisoners in this one-man bunker, all of them Field-Marshals as a punishment. Milch was then subjected to a war crimes trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. Admiral Eberhard Godt, the Chief of Staff, was threatened with hanging unless he...testified that Dönitz had given illegal orders and so on. There's a whole string of examples of the coercion of prisoners at Nuremberg." (33-9384, 9385)
I would also have interest in British Foreign Office files. The old Irving website had a transcription of the famous Cavendish-Bentinck memos. But when I did a search on the site I found only German Foreign Office files (also of interest but I don't know if I'm the man for the job there. I think I would need to read more secondary literature first before tackling that.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20241026171 ... tinck.html
P.S. We should have some sort of project to preserve and digitize Mattogno's document collection.
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