by David Irving
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_______. Erinnerungen. Mainz, 1975.
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David Irving’s famous narrative The Destruction of Convoy PQ.17 is now also permanently available in the FOCAL POINT CLASSIC SERIES series
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Conflicting views on Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich, by David Irving
THIS IS A REPELLENT BOOK, AND NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS SUBJECT.
Irving (G¨ring) has been increasingly under fire for exploiting seemingly indefatigable research to distort history. In the book in hand, he uses enough pejoratives to sustain the illusion of objectivity regarding Hitler’s propaganda chief, yet suggests that the admittedly bad man had a cause not entirely bad in itself. Nazi brutality is almost always retaliation for the plots of international Jewry and the criminality of domestic Jews. Even the books notoriously burned are “decadent and anti-German.’ The term Redakteur (editor) ‘to Goebbels’ sensitive ear had a Jewish ring.’ Protesters in Saarbr¨cken are ‘a clamoring ragbag of communists, Jews, freemasons, and disgruntled émigrés.’ There is always, in Irving’s own words, a ‘Jewish problem’ that Goebbels struggles to solve. Much of the book, heavily indebted to the self-serving Goebbels diaries, is in such a vein. . . The real insidiousness of the biography is that its formidable documentation will gain it acceptance as history.” — Anonymous, The Publishers Weekly, New York
“SILENCING MR IRVING WOULD BE A HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM from the annoyance that he causes us. The fact is that he knows more about National Socialism than most professional scholars in his field, and students of the years 1933‒1945 owe more than they are always willing to admit to his energy as a researcher and to the scope and vigor of his publications.… There is nothing absolute about historical truth. What we consider as such is only an estimation, based upon what the best available evidence tells us. It must constantly be tested against new information and new interpretations that appear, however implausible they may be, or it will lose its vitality and degenerate into dogma or shibboleth. Such people as David Irving, then, have an indispensable part in the historical enterprise, and we dare not disregard their views.”
— Professor Gordon C Craig, The New York Review of Books
“IRVING ATTRACTS CREDIBILITY AND ATTENTION BY HIS INDEFATIGABLE energy, intelligence and resourcefulness. Compared with most British historians, often a dull, lazy breed, Irving has spent a lifetime ceaselessly criss-crossing the globe to gather eyewitness evidence.”
— Tom Bower, The Daily Mail, London
“HE IS THE FIRST TO USE GOEBBELS’ FULL DIARY, 75,000 PAGES, RECENTLY found in Moscow.… Irving’s trademark research into original manuscripts is uniquely impressive.”
— George Stern, The Literary Review, London
Goebbels
Mastermind of the Third Reich
“THESE DIARIES HAVE LONG BEEN KNOWN PART, BUT THE COMPLETE text was only recently identified in the Moscow archives, and Mr Irving is the first writer to use them. For this, and for his archival research generally, he deserves every credit.”
—Professor Huge Trevor-Roper, The Sunday Telegraph, London
“DAVID IRVING KNOWS MORE THAN ANYONE ALIVE ABOUT THE GERMAN side of the Second World War. He discovers archives unknown to official historians and turns their contents into densely footnoted narratives that consistently provoke controversy.... His greatest achievement is Hitler’s War, which has been described as the ‘auto-biography the Führer did not write’ and is indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the war in the round.”
— John Keegan, The Daily Telegraph, London
Index
Abbeville, ref1
ACV tanks, ref1
Afrika Korps:
arrival in Tripoli of, ref1, ref2
command changes in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
condition of, after Egyptian campaign, ref1
criticisms of Rommel in, ref1, ref2
distances covered by, ref1
as elite, ref1
formal designation of, ref1
reunion in Tunisia of (1943), ref1
in Rommel’s dash to Egyptian frontier, ref1
Rommel’s spirit inculcated into, ref1
see also North African campaign; and specific battle sites
Agedabia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Rommel’s surprise attack on, ref1
aircraft production, German, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Aird, Ian, ref1
air operations, Allied, ref1, ref2, ref3
“British,” faked by Germany, ref1
in France (1944), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
in Germany, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
in Italy ref1
in North African campaign, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22
air operations, German, see Luftwaffe
Ajax (Rommel’s dog), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Alam el Halfa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Alarich Operation, ref1, ref2
Albania, ref1
Aldinger, Hermann, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Alexander the Great, ref1
Alexandria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Algeria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
U.S. forces in, ref1
Allied Joint Intelligence Committee, ref1
Alpha Operation, ref1
Alpine passes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Altmark incident, ref1
Ambrosio, Vittorio, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ancona, ref1
Ankara, ref1
antitank weapons, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25
dummy, ref1
production plans for, ref1, ref2
in screens, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Anzio, invasion of, ref1
Apennine mountain passes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Arabs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Arco dei Fileini, ref1, ref2
Armbruster, Wilfred, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Army Group Africa, ref1
Army Group B, ref1
command post of, ref1
false information ev aluated by, ref1, ref2, ref3
formation of, ref1
in Greece, ref1
Kluge placed in command of, ref1
Kluge succeeded by Model in, ref1
Rommel as commander of, ref1
war diary of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
war diary omissions of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 passim
Arras, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Atlantic Wall,” ref1, ref2
see also English Channel coast defenses
Auchinleck, Claude, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Augustin, Colonel, ref1
Australian forces:
in Egypt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
in Libya, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Austria:
annexation of, ref1
in World War I, ref1
Avesnes, ref1
Avranches, U.S. breakthrough at, ref1
Axis Operation, ref1, ref2
Bab el Qattara, ref1
Bach, Wilhelm, ref1, ref2
Badoglio, Pietro, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bad Polzin, ref1
Balbo, Italo, ref1
Baldassare, General, ref1
Balkans, ref1, ref2
German invasion of, ref1
Bannerman, Alistair, diary of, ref1, ref2
Barbarossa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
see also Soviet Union
Barbasetti, Curio, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bardia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Bargatsky, Walter, ref1, ref2
Barsewisch, Karl, ref1
Barthel, Major, ref1
Bastico, Ettore, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14 passim
Battleaxe operation, ref1
Bayer, Lieutenant, ref1
Bayerlein, Fritz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29
Bayeux, ref1, ref2, ref3
bazookas, ref1, ref2
BBC, ref1, ref2, ref3
secret codes transmitted by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
BDM (League of German Maidens), ref1
Beck, Ludwig, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Beda Littoria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Behrendt, Hans-Otto, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Béja, ref1, ref2
Belgium:
anticipated invasion of (1944), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
invasion of (1940), ref1, ref2, ref3
Belhamed hill, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Below, Nicolaus von, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ben Gania, ref1, ref2, ref3
Benghazi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
British occupation of (1941), ref1
German recapture of, ref1
Beni Zelten, ref1
Beresford-Peirse, Noel, ref1, ref2
Berlin, fire raids on, ref1
Berliner Börsenzeitung, ref1
Berndt, Alfred, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32
Beta Operation, ref1, ref2
Beumelberg, Werner, ref1
Bevan, Aneurin, ref1
Bir el Gubi, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bir Hacheim, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
German attack on, ref1
Bir Lefa, ref1
Bir Tengeder, ref1
Biscay coast, German defenses on, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bismarck, Georg von, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Bismarck, ref1
Bitossi, Gervasio, ref1
Bizerta, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Black Code,” ref1
Blockhead Operation, ref1, ref2
Blowpipe guns, ref1
Blumentritt, Günther, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Boettcher, Karl, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bolbrinker, Ernst, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bologna, ref1, ref2
Bolzano, ref1, ref2
Borchardt, Lieutenant, ref1, ref2
Bormann, Martin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Borne, Colonel von dem, ref1, ref2
Böttcher, Albert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
“boxes,” fortified, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bradley, Omar, ref1
Brandt, Carl, ref1
Brauchitsch, Walther von, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Brendel, Paul, ref1
Brenner Pass, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brest, as invasion target, ref1
Brink, Reinhard, ref1, ref2
Britain, see Great Britain
British air force, see Royal Air Force
British army units (numerically arranged):
First Airborne Division, ref1
First South African Division, ref1, ref2
Second South African Division, ref1
Fourth Armored Brigade, ref1, ref2
Fourth Indian Division, ref1, ref2
Seventh Armored Brigade, ref1, ref2
Seventh Armored Division, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Eighth Army, see Eighth Army, British
Ninth Australian Division, ref1
Eleventh Armored Division, ref1
Twenty-second Armored Brigade, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Twenty-second Guards Brigade, ref1, ref2
Twenty-third Armored Brigade, ref1
Thirtieth Corps, ref1, ref2
Fifty-first (Highlands) Division, ref1
British commandos, see commandos, British
British Field Maintenance Centers (FMC), ref1
British intelligence, see intelligence, British
British navy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brittany:
German coastal defenses in, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
invasion of, ref1, ref2
as invasion target, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Broich, Fritz von, ref1, ref2
Brooke, Alan, ref1
Bruer, Colonel, ref1
Buelowius, Karl, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Buerat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Rommel’s retreat from, ref1, ref2
Burgdorf, Wilhelm, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Busch, Ernst, ref1
Butcher, Harry C., ref1
“C,” chief of British Secret Service, ref1
Caen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
destruction of, ref1
German defense of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
as invasion target, ref1, ref2
Rommel’s last victory at, ref1
Cairo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Calais, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cambrai, ref1
Canaris, Wilhelm, ref1, ref2
Cannae, Hannibal’s victory at, ref1, ref2
Cap Cris Nez, ref1
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Capri Operation, ref1, ref2
Capuzzo, Fort, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Carentan, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cassino, ref1
Caucasus, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cauldron (Got el Ualeb), ref1, ref2, ref3
Cavallero, Ugo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17 passim
Cayeux-sur-Mer, ref1
Châlons, interrogation center at, ref1
Cherbourg (port), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
German contact with Americans at, ref1, ref2
Cherbourg peninsula:
Allied advances on, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Allied capture of, ref1
German defense decisions on, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
German inquiry on loss of, ref1, ref2, ref3
as invasion target, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
strategic importance of, ref1, ref2
U.S. offensive launched from, ref1, ref2
Cherkassy, battle of, ref1
Choisy, Marquis de, ref1
Churchill, Winston S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17
criticisms of, ref1, ref2
“Cicero” (SS agent), ref1
Citadel (South Carolina), ref1, ref2, ref3
Citadel Operation, ref1, ref2
Clausewitz, Karl von, ref1
Clifton, C. H., ref1
codes, ref1, ref2, ref3
see also Enigma code; “little fellers”; Ultra intercept
Coefia, ref1
Collins, Lawton “Joe,” ref1
commandos, British, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cosenza, ref1
Court of Honor, ref1, ref2
Cramer, Hans, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cranz, Carl, ref1
Crete, ref1, ref2
invasion of, ref1
Crusader Operation, ref1, ref2, ref3
Crüwell, Ludwig, ref1, ref2, ref3 passim, ref4, ref5, ref6 passim
Rommel’s orders ignored by, ref1, ref2
Cunningham, Alan, ref1, ref2
Cyrenaica, ref1
Agedabia as key to, ref1
collapse of British defense of, ref1
Rommel’s march across (April 1941), ref1
Rommel’s withdrawal across (December 1941), ref1
“Cyrenaica Command,” ref1
Cyrene, ref1
Czechoslovakia, ref1, ref2
Dalmatia, ref1
Daniel, Corporal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6