Hitler's War

[blackfeather]

As soon as I heard this book has been basically banned I figured I'd need to read it.  David Irving believes in writing using original documents without any bias on his part.  After studying original German documents and diaries some which he had exclusive access to, he wrote the history.  
The book takes you right into close proximity with Hitler as if you were right there.  It seems to me the reason that no publisher will now publish the book is that it makes Hitler human.  This is not the narrative that certain people want published.  It takes you from his rising to power to his suicide.  
Originally, when it first came out in 1977 it was acclaimed as a great work, it was required reading in West Point, but it became politically incorrect as time went on.
The book is well written, easy to read and seems like an accurate (though somewhat unpopular) history.  Good luck finding the book in print, they can cost quite a bit of money if you can find one. Fortunately here is the pdf version..

www.fpp.co.uk/books/Hitler/

[Jolly]

That's going on my reading list.

There was a reason Hitler and Mussollini came to power...

[Deleted]

As I have been awake for quite a while, and it looks like I am not going to get back to sleep any time soon, I now have something of interest to read.

Thanks.

[Ozarks Tom]

An interesting read so far, only to page 72, but I do take exception to his more or less absolving Hitler of knowing of or ordering the holocaust. That's just beyond belief. Nothing of that enormity could escape notice of the same person who personally planned strategies and overrode his generals.

Just like we won't find any written correspondence from obama telling the FBI to absolve hillary, and no transcript of the clinton/lynch meeting, some things aren't put in writing by those who authorize it. It's the middle men doing the dirty work who keep records and correspondence, possibly hoping to prove their lack of responsibility.

[blackfeather]

I'm not sure about that either. Although through the book Hitler seems to publicly and privately keep saying he wants to deport the Jew to Madagascar or Africa or Siberia. At the end of the book when Hitler is confronted by 1.5 million dead in the east (according to Russia) he says that "it is all Himmler's and Himmler's alone." Himmler claimed Hitler was too soft on the Jewish question. My guess from reading the book is that Himmler took the lead but Hitler didn't stop him. In Latvia and Lithuania when it was reported to Hitler that the locals there were killing Jews, once their governments collapsed after German invasion, he said it wasn't our (meaning him and his military's) concern. I suspect the same attitude prevailed in this case, it wasn't his concern. Another good book is www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/The_Dictators_Handbook.pdf Once reading that you can understand why leaders don't completely control their underlings. Leaders need their underlings to retain power and it isn't good practice to cross them. An example is when Goebbles started the Kristallnacht, The majority of Nazi leadership was against burning Jewish businesses, not because they were favoring the Jews but because those businesses were insured and it was going to cost German insurance companies quite a bit of money. They wanted Goebbles punished. Hitler refused because Hitler need him. The Same is probably true of others in Hitler's closest circles. He put up with Goring until the very end. By the end he was losing control, he'd make orders but his generals no longer feared not obeying him. ( Of course that is probably because obeying would mean certain death at the hands of the Russians or the western allies.) I'm not saying everything he wrote is absolutely correct but it is no worse than any other history of the time and it does have a different view point.

[mnn2501]

Looks like I've got some reading to do. Thanks

[blackfeather]

Just so you know On the same web site is Churchill's war that is in 2 volumes and a 3rd is waiting to be published. I have started volume 1 section 1. Churchill certainly looked like he was soft on communism, and probably beholding to they guy who paid off all his debts.

[blackfeather]

A video done by the author David Irving, which is rather interesting. A summary about his experiences, interviews, and his information about Hitler and the death of the Jews seen from his point of view.

[joebill]

Watched about 12 minutes of it, and not much doubt where his sympathies lie. Certainly, those civilians on the other side suffered mightily, but it could have been avoided had Hitler never been born or never been supported. Cause and effect. Can't escape it...….Joe