The Journal of History     Spring 2005    TABLE OF CONTENTS

Voices of the Censored and Ignored:
Quotes from David Irving


Page 630-1 "As part of the Nazi indoctrination project, during the spring he [Himmler] and Hitler separately made several secret speeches to groups of generals. Hitler's speech of April has not survived. But Himmler's talk on May 5 to an audience including General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff and Herman Reinecke (and a member of Hitler's own staff, Admiral Hans-Erich Voss) has: it was taken down by stenographers, stylistically improved, and like most of his main speeches retyped on a large-face 'Führer' typewriter. Since only carbon copies are left in Himmler's files, Hitler may have been sent the top copies of each of Himmler's speeches. In theory he might therefore have found the passage in Himmler's seventy-page speech of October 6, 1943, where he bluntly disclosed to Albert Speer and the Gauleters that he, Himmler, had decided to murder Jewish women and children as well as adult males. ('I took the decision that a clear-cut solution had to be found here too.') On May 5,1944, however, Himmler tried a new version--or adapted it to his audience of generals. After revealing in now stereotyped sentences that he had 'uncompromisingly' solved the 'Jewish problem' in Germany and the German-occupied countries, he added: 'I am telling this to you as my comrades. We are all soldiers regardless of which uniform we wear. You can imagine how I felt executing this soldierly order issued to me, but I obediently complied and carried it out to the best of my convictions.' Never before, and never after, did Himmler hint at a Führer Order; but there is reason to doubt he dared show this passage to his Führer." [footnote] 3 See immediately below.

3 "Page 28 of the large-face typescript, containing this pregnant sentence--for only Hitler was empowered to issue a 'soldierly order' to Himmler--was manifestly retyped and inserted in the transcript at a later date, as the different indenting shows. End of footnote.

"Consider too Himmler's speech of May 24, in which again speaking before generals he explained his stance somewhat differently. He recalled how in 1933 and 1934 he had thrown habitual criminals into concentration camps without trial, and boasted, 'I must admit I have committed many such illegal acts in my time. But rest assured of this: I have resorted to these only when I felt that sound common-sense and the inner justice of a Germanic--and right-thinking--people were on my side.' With this in mind Himmler had confronted the 'Jewish problem' too: 'It was solved uncompromisingly--on orders and at the dictate of sound common-sense.' One page later, Himmler's speech again hinted that Jewish women and children were also being liquidated. [footnote] 4 See immediately below.

4 "This page alone was also retyped and possibly inserted at a later date in the typescript." End of footnote.

"The fact remains that in his personal meetings with Hitler, the Reichführer continued to talk only of the 'expulsion' [Aussiedlung] of the Jews, even as late as July 1944."

Page 660 "Horthy had still not kept his part of the Klessheim bargain--the total expulsion of the Jews from Hungary; moreover, after July 8 [1944] he refused to deport any more Jews, and a few days later he announced his intention of replacing Sztójay by a military regime....But now Himmler's ghastly secret was coming out, for two Slovak Jews had escaped Auschwitz extermination camp, and their horrifying revelations were published in two reputable Swiss newspapers early in July. Horthy refused to deport the Jews from Budapest; instead he announced that a general would bring Hitler a letter on July 21 [1944]."

Page 717 "The first 318 Hungarian Jews were released from Bergen-Belsen camp and transferred to Switzerland to prove Germany's intention of keeping the bargain; but Himmler's intermediaries were asking for trucks in exchange ('to be used only on the eastern front') and although further consignments of Jews were allowed to leave--1,355 in December and 1,100 in February 1945--the deal collapsed."

Page 718 "In October 1944, Himmler ordered the extermination of the Jews to stop....SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, chief of of the Reich Main Security Office, stated ...at Nuremberg...that he had received a stunning report from an investigating judge he had appointed in 1943 to prosecute corruption at [the] top level in the concentration camp system....Late in 1943 he [Dr. Konrad Morgan] had realized that a systematic mass murder was proceeding at two camps--Auschwitz and Lublin. The commandant at Lublin,...told him 'they were destroying Jews on the Führer's orders,' and he was running altogether four extermination camps in the eastern General-gouvernement of Poland, including Majdanek near Treblinka, in which five thousand Jews were themselves operating the machinery (before being systematically liquidated themselves).... Late in 1943... he stumbled on the truth about Auschwitz.... An investigating judge sent to scrutinize the files of the Reich Main Security Office itself--under whose Departments N and Nb the massacre had begun--found that no general order for the massacre had ever been received or issued."

Page 719 "The following scene is, however, independently testified to. On October 27, 1944, news reports reached Hitler that the Russians claimed to have found a former concentration camp Majdanek, near Lublin, at which 1,500,000 people had been liquidated; according to Heinz Lorenz, his press officer, Hitler angrily dismissed the reports as propaganda--just as German troops had been accused of 'hacking off children's hands in Belgium' in 1914. When Ribbentrop pressed him for an answer, the Führer replied more revealingly, 'That is Himmler's affair and his alone.' He betrayed no flicker of emotion."

Page 740 "The German finance minister's papers reveal that Wehrmacht costs from September 1, 1939 to November 30, 1944, had totaled 398,760 million Reichmarks; a further 199,700 million had been spent on the civil sector. Against this, the Reich had raised only 288,550 million Reichmarks by direct and indirect taxation and by occupation charges."

Page 821 Hitler stated, " 'The aim must still be to win territory in the east for the German people."

Does this impress you as the words of a man about to commit suicide?

Page 823 "It was about three-thirty when Hitler and Eva withdrew into the little green-and-white tiled study. Hitler closed the double doors, leaving Goebbels, Krebs, Burgdorf, and Bormann in the conference room....Controlling his trembling hand Adolf Hitler raised the heavy 7.65 millimeter Walther to his right temple, clenched his teeth on the phial in his mouth, and squeezed the trigger."

Page 839 "On the 24th Heydrich wrote reminding Ribbentrop that he had been promoting Jewish emigration on Göring's instructions since January 1939 two hundred thousand had already emigrated, and he asked the AA to inform him should there be any conferences on the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem."

                                End Notes

Page 840 "Eberhard recalled in an interview with me [the author] in 1970 that when Greiner visited OKH headquarters at Fontainebleau in the summer of 1940 he hinted to the Luftwaffe liaison team there that there was to be no invasion of England. 'You'll see well enough next spring why nobody's putting any weight into it.' And on August 6, Tippelskirch--Halder's chief of Intelligence--noted: 'Engel [Führer's army adjutant] says, Führer has [a] powerful hangup [over England]...If no decision this autumn, lock up shop until May.' Finally, we observe that after Hitler's speech on August 14 the chief of naval operations approached Jodl thus: 'Should the Führer inwardly have resolved not to execute [the invasion of Britain], we propose it should be called off so as to take the pressure off our economy, while keeping this top secret. In its place a special deception operation should be mounted to maintain the threat on the enemy' (naval staff war diary)."

Page 845 "That the Bismarck scuttled herself--and was not 'sunk'--was later confirmed by Captain Junak, her turbine officer, who himself opened the sea cocks."

Here is a quote which indicates just how uninformed Hitler was as respects the Illuminati's goals:

Page 847 "p. 285 Weizsäcker, Ribbentrop's number-two man, at least recognized Hitler's long-term aim of war with the New World. On August 13, 1941, he wrote cryptically in his diary: 'People think that Germany and Britain are winning such mutual admiration in the present duel that sometime later they will march together against the U.S.A.' and on September 15: 'England is the country of 'our' [i.e. Hitler's] respect, indeed almost of 'our' love. To advance with her against the U.S.A.--that is the dream of the future.' Careful readers will also find traces of Hitler's aim in his talk with Ciano on October 25, 1941."

Page 850-1 "p. 326 Himmler's letter to Greiser, September 18, 1941, is in SS files (T175/54/8695). See also his letter to SS Brigadier Uebelhör, the governor of Ludz, dated October 10 in the same file. The governor had protested that he had no room to accommodate the influx of Jews; Himmler sharply rebuked him: 'It is in the Reich's interests that you accommodate the Jews, as it is the Führer's will that the Jews must be driven our from the west to east, step by step.'

In addition to Hitler's adjutants (e.g., Below, Puttkamer, Günsche, Engel, Wolff) whom I [the author] interviewed or whose testimony is available, all the (non-Party) Reichstag stenographers who recorded all his war and staff conferences, however secret, after September 1942, were closely interrogated about Hitler's involvement in the Jewish atrocities. Among the private papers of the stenographer Ludwig Krieger I [the author] found a note dated December 13, 1945. 'In the Führer conferences which I reported in shorthand there was never any mention of the atrocities against the Jews. For the present it must remain an unanswered question whether Hitler himself issued specific orders...or whether orders issued in generalized terms were executed by subordinates and sadists in this brutal and vile manner.' Karl-Wilhelm Krause, Hitler's manservant from 1934 to 1943, believed the latter reason, explaining: 'Hitler lived in a world of his own--he liked to believe good rather than evil of people.' While Himmler's last adjutant, Werner Grothmann, whom I interviewed in 1970, felt it unlikely that the Reichsführer SS would have dared act on his own initiative, and Himmler's surviving brother Gebbard--formerly a high civil servant--told me the same in 1968, the written testimony of Karl Wolff is persuasive (IfX, ZS-317); Wolff, who was also Himmler's Chief of Staff, believes that Himmler desired, in some bizarre way, to perform great deeds for the 'Messiah of the next two thousand years'--without having to involve his Führer in them. Writing a confidential study on Hitler in his Nuremberg prison cell, Ribbentrop also exonerated him wholly. 'How things came to the destruction of the Jews, I just don't know. As to whether Himmler began it, or Hitler put up with it, I don't know. But that he ordered it I refuse to believe, because such an act would be wholly incompatible with the picture I always had of him...' (Bavarian State Archives, Rep. 502 AXA 131)."

Page 857 "p. 391 The AA file on the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem (Serial 1513) contains the orginal R.S.H.A. memorandum on the so-called Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942; see also Luther's memo of August 21 (ibid., and NG-2586). On January 21, Himmler noted after telephoning Heydrich, 'Jewish problem,' and 'Berlin conference'; four days later, in the Wolf's Lair, Himmler spoke to Heydrich by telephone about '[putting] Jews in concentration camps'; on January 27 their telephone conversation revolved around 'Jew arrests,' and the next day about 'a roundup of Jews' (T84/25). Further sources on the planning and results of the Wannsee Conference are documents 709-PS and NG-5770, introduced at the Nuremberg trials; the testimony there of Dr. Lammers both in the main trial (IMT, Vol. XI, page 61) and in Case XI (September 23, 1948); and a memo by the East Ministry, January 29, 1942, AA Serial 7117H.

p. 391 For Heydrich's March 6, 1942, conference see Franz Rademacher's note (Serial 1513, pages 372020 et seq.) and the record of March 14 (Serial 1512, pages 371961 et seq.); the March 'detailed memorandum' has survived only in the summary in Goebbel's diary, March 7, 1942. Nowhere in the entire Goebbel's diaries--including the recently discovered unpublished years being prepared for publication by Hoffman & Campe--is there any reference to Hitler's alleged initiative in the extermination of the Jews."

This is likely the definitive reason why David Irving has been banned in many countries.

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