David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected [Paperback]

Eberhard Jackel (Author), H. David Kirk (Author, Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0914539086 | ISBN-13: 978-0914539087 | Publication Date: August 1993

Among the dangers facing the Jewish people today is the concerted effort of so-called historical revisionists to deny the reality of the Holocaust. Among the most dangerous of the "revisionists" is David Irving who, with the trappings of the respectable historian--research and sources--has become the darling of neo-Nazi activists. Eberhard Jckel, Professor of History at the University of Stuttgart, has answered Irving's falsehoods. This book has been build around a translation of Dr. Jackel's work.

Editorial Reviews

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"... a stunning expose of what Hitler knew and Irving must know about German governmental genocide." -- Delloyd J. Guth, PH.D., Professor of Law and Director of the Canadian Legal History Project, University of Manitoba

"Eberhard Jackel's article is an important contribution in the ongoing battle against Holocaust deniers. It deserves the widest possible distribution." -- Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, Senior Scholar, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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Product Details

• Paperback: 58 pages
• Publisher: Ben-Simon Pubns (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914539086
• ISBN-13: 978-0914539087
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,000,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > History > World > Jewish > General

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66 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Predictable/unsubstantiated, January 15, 2000

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SP (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected (Paperback)

Eberhard Jackel and David Kirk offer up a less-than-interesting piece of work whose sole aim is discredit the controversial author and historian, David Irving. For those who don't know, Mr. Irving has courageously chosen throughout his career to write historical profiles of people like Adolf Hitler that are objective and well researched. This has not pleased other authors, members of academic circles and several victims' rights groups. The tactic usually used in discrediting David Irving is a smear campaign. This book, although with the same motives, attempts to disprove and discredit Irving on historical grounds. The problem is that very early on in this book it becomes quite clear that the authors idea of "research" is to reference already existing work on the subject matter. This of course is not real research, but a way or rehashing and reinforcing accepted yet often-unproven conclusions, something which has plagued the WW2 book genre for several decades. What we have here is a book not only with dishonorable intentions, but a piece of work which insists on treading where hundreds if not thousands of others have tread before. This of course has always been David Irving's contention, that the truth has been lost. Somewhere from point A to point B, the line between factual historical writing, and myth and assumption has been blurred. If you really want to know what all the fuss is about, check out one of the many David Irving books for yourself offered through Amazon. Decide for yourself!

66 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reproachable, April 1, 2000

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Robert Wellington ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected (Paperback)

This book is an exercise in character assassination. The workis plagued by erratic, unsubstantiated conclusions, gross inaccuraciesand a jagged, occasionally chaotic writing style. Ebhard Jackel has a nasty habit of generalizing and jumping from point to point without offering the necessary expansion of his theories. Even the footnotes are vague. The author, almost without exception, cites other literary works as "proof" of his conclusions. This type of circular logic is not becoming of professional historians or even writers in general...

There are much better critiques of Irving's work than the one mentioned here. Amazon should be commended for offering literary works with alternative viewpoints. END

53 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Uneven attack, July 18, 2000

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Candace Scott (Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected (Paperback)

Does David Irving deserve censure for his grotesque belief that Adolf Hitler knew nothing of the Holocaust? Of course. Is Eberhard Jaeckel the historian to dismantle Irving? No. Jaeckel himself has a long history of gaffes regarding Hitler. In 1983, he published in in Germany, 'Hitler's Saemtliche Aufzeichnungen" which purported to publish many "new" Hitler poems and drawings. The problem was that most of the work consisted of worthless forgeries. Jaeckel should have known this, any reputable historian would have known instantly.

The problem with Irving is that he is a diligent researcher, he just is corrupted with blatant racism which renders his conclusions on the Reich one-sided and specious. Any historian starting out with Irving's premises is standing on faulty ground. But Jaeckel is out of his league here and it clearly shows. His footnotes frequently lead to discredited sources and his conclusions are haphazard and disjointed.

Irving deserves critical, harsh examination, but it needs to be done by an historian of greater skill and repute than Jaeckel.