let 'em eat amotal

Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Wed Mar 27 09:26:57 CST 1996


Burgess, John writes:

> That's most interesting and I'd like to see David Irving(e?)'s sources.

`The Mare's Nest' only contains a few citations of its sources which
appear to be mostly government papers only availble to the select
crowd Irvine seems to have been included in. But read the book anyway,
if you can get hold of a copy, that is.

> I don't suppose the fact that the docks of London -- at that time the 
> world's largest -- just happen to lie in the east of the city (where 
> there's still deep draft and before you get to the bridges) had anything 
> to do with targetting?

Don't think so. Many of the bombs fell on Croydon which is south, not
east, and distinctly upmarket from Archway and Bethnal Green. Irvine
is very specific on the point disinformation story.

By the way, I have heard several reports that Irvine is now a
`Holocaust revisionist' arguing that the number of Jews exterminated
in the death camps is far lower than the millions usually claimed and
I think also reported to have downplayed the involvement of many of
those implicated in the war crimes and their intention to exterminate
all Jews. I have no idea whether this is an accurate report of his
views. Does anyone else have the scoop.


Andrew Dinn
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