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Hitler’s War And The War Path.

Over 1000 Pages.


To historians is granted a talent that even the gods are denied – to
alter what has already happened!’
I bore this scornful saying in mind when I embarked on this study
of Adolf Hitler’s twelve years of absolute power. I saw myself as a stone
cleaner – less concerned with architectural appraisal than with scrubbing
years of grime and discoloration from the facade of a silent and forbidding
monument. I set out to describe events from behind the Führer’s desk,
seeing each episode through his eyes. The technique necessarily narrows
the field of view, but it does help to explain decisions that are otherwise
inexplicable. Nobody that I knew of had attempted this before, but it seemed
worth the effort: after all, Hitler’s war left forty million dead and caused all
of Europe and half of Asia to be wasted by fire and explosives; it destroyed
Hitler’s ‘Third Reich,’ bankrupted Britain and lost her the Empire, and it
brought lasting disorder to the world’s affairs; it saw the entrenchment of
communism in one continent, and its emergence in another.

A Note on the Millennium Edition
the millennium edition of Hitler’s War brings the narrative up to date with
the latest documents discovered, primarily in American and former Soviet
archives, since the  edition was published. I was in  the first author
permitted by the Moscow authorities to exploit the microfiched diaries of
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, which contain further vital information about Hitler’s
role in the Röhm Purge, the Kristallnacht of , the Final Solution, and
other matters of high historical importance. From a Californian source I
obtained the original Gestapo interrogations of Rudolf Hess’s staff, conducted
in the first few days after his flight to Scotland. The British secret service has
now released to the public domain the intercepts of top secret messages
sent in code by Himmler and other SS commanders.
These are just a few examples of the new materials woven into the fabric
of this story. I am glad to say I have not had to revise my views as originally
expressed: I was always confident that if one adheres to original documents,
one will not stray far from Real History. The new archival material has
however made it possible to refine the narrative, and to upgrade the
documentary basis of my former assertions.
David Irving
London, January 12th 2002.

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