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Nuremberg: The Last Battle Hardcover – Unabridged, October 1, 1996

by David Irving (Author), Walter Frentz (Photographer)
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Using the unpublished diaries and papers of the principal actors David Irving takes a close-quarters look at the trial which finally ended World War Two. There would be few crimes listed in the indictment at Nuremberg of which one or other of the four prosecuting powers was not guilty of itself. In the cause of defeating Adolf Hitler, civilian populations had been burned and blasted, murdered, brutalised, intimidated, deported, and enslaved; aggressive wars had been launched, neutral countries occupied by pretext and deceit, and the unalterable paragraphs of international conventions flagrantly violated.
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    377 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    World War II Books
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 1996
  5. ISBN-10
    1872197167
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1872197166
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ World War II Books; 1st edition (October 1, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 377 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1872197167
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1872197166
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

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David John Cawdell Irving

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Born on March 24, 1938, Irving is the son of a Royal Navy commander. He attended Imperial College of Science & Technology and University College London and later spent time in Germany working in a Thyssen steel mill to improve his German language skills. He is known for his extensive archival research and has published around thirty books, with notable works including “Hitler’s War”, “The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-Marshal Rommel“, and “Göring: a Biography”. He has also translated several works by other authors.

David Irving lived for over thirty years in Grosvenor Square, London, and is the father of five daughters. His youngest daughter is Jessica, while his other daughters are Josephine (who tragically passed away in 1999), Pilar, Paloma, and Beatrice. Irving’s first major publication was “The Destruction of Dresden” in 1963, which became a bestseller. He has also written works only published in German, such as documentation on the 1944 Morgenthau Plan, and continues to work on historical biographies.

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R. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars Shocking and Revealing and a Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021
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It was a foregone conclusion that at least some of the Nazi leaders were going to die at the end of the war.

The author points to one suggestion that they be declared international outlaws and, when caught and certainly identified, shot out of hand. This actually follows a long-established legal principle for dealing with international pirates. Catch them and bag them.

Another approach was to hold international trials. That, of course, was done.

It would have been more honest and less tangled in illegalities if option one had been chosen and they were shot on capture. The Nuremberg trials and some of the subsequent military trials were a disgrace and had barely the form of law. They sullied the greater edifice of law and were scarcely different from the infamous Nazi and Communist show trials with ex post facto laws and made up procedures.

At least some of these people clearly violated existing laws in their own countries and the countries Germany occupied and they could have been held to trial under those laws and procedures without destroying the integrity of the prosecution and without making up ex post facto laws.

One thing I had learned before in a course on trial technique but saw confirmed in this history is that Justice Jackson was far out of his depth prosecuting these cases. That was particularly true of Goering who was smarter and faster than Jackson at almost every step. One more disgrace among many.

The book is very readable and very interesting. I finished it in two successive days, finding it difficult to put down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting book by a very tragic personality ....
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This is a well-researched book based on rich sources of information that no other of the celebrated books on the same topic possessed. Much of this information comes from the personal diaries of the central figures of this famous trial (judges, prosecutors, defendants and their attorneys). Irving gives us a clear idea of what proceeded the trial, and he then places every step of the trial in the appropriate historical perspective. The highly cynical discussions between the judges and their confessions are highly revealing. This was a kangaroo trial, indeed, for all practical purposes. In this book there is much detail about what was going on inside the trial room as well as outside it (e.g., only in Irving's book you find facts like the theft of valuable items from Goering's estate by the son of the American prosecutor, the honorable Jackson!).

Irving himself is a tragic personality, one of the most noticeable victims of political correctness that characterizes these sad times (it is by now clear that political correctness will be one of the key destructors of the West). Irving is a self-made and extremely hard-working historian, a revisionist with an unconventional style deserves a lot of credit and admiration.
Perhaps, the highest credit for Irving is the paid criticism of his work by "historians for hire". Like that by the Cambridge "historian" R.J. Evans, a notorious member of the inner circle of wealthy historians (Evans was paid 1 million USD to write his deeply immoral critic of Irving).
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John S. Reid
5.0 out of 5 stars An Inconvenient Truth
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015
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I agree with all of the positive remarks of the previous reviews of this tome. But I also wish to add the following remarks.

In writing this tome, David Irving does not rely on "official records", but rather goes to genuine source materials, such as the diaries of those involved, comments made to relatives of those involved, original recordings, and original correspondence documents not intended for publication. It will be appreciated that "official records" and contemporaneous news reports can be (and often are) subject to selective editing as required to meet an agenda, but that diaries and off-the-record comments are probably more reliable sources. (After all, it is implausible that one would write a diary intending it to be a later source document.) David Irving is considered to be a "controversial" historian because he presents unvarnished history (which cannot be controverted), which thus becomes an "Inconvenient Truth" for those who wish to propagate the populist history of WWII.

If you want to know more about the truth behind Germany and WWII, this is a great starting point, but I would also suggest the following: (I) "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War", by Patrick Buchanan; and (ii) "America's Second Crusade", by William Chamberlin. There are many other tomes out there that also refute the populist "high school history" version of WWII which lays all of the blame for WWII in Europe at the feet of Germany. It is often said that the victors get to write the history. With respect to WWII, the victors did get to write a lot of the history, but more so the victors got to control the post-war propaganda (a propaganda effort of which Goebbels would be envious). Fortunately, there are some valiant historians who wrote historical accounts that do not toe the populist party line, and David Irving is chief among them.

The search for "truth" with respect to the origins or WWI is ongoing - don't just accept the pabulum of Discovery Channel so-called "documentaries" on the subject - do your own research. You will be amazed with what you find.
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awesome
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2023
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David Irving is a brilliant author who in this book gives an enthralling account of Herman Goering on the ropes in the final months of his life leading up to his execution.
The Allies who imprison the grossly overweight opiate addicted Goering on a starvation diet undergoing cold turkey in the name of torture only to have him arise lean and fighting fit in the court, answering back charismatically and making a mockery of the spectacle they've created in order that the public should believe that they possess the moral high ground. This being done by a great deal of evidence tampering and outright rigging of the legal procedures by which these show trials took place. Great attention is also paid to the fact that the first priority of those undertaking the trials was not justice but as usual self promotion and riding the taxpayer funded gravy train that these trials were whilst millions across Europe lived the misery of rationing.
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Regula Stöcki
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing book which brings to live with annotated documentary evidence ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2015
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The victors, hungry for revenge, putting their vanquished enemies to the sword - behind the facade of a dubious and shameful soviet-style show trial in occupied Germany, while all around lay the thousands of civilian corpses, killed by allied bombings of residential areas of Nuremberg. The victors were guilty themselves of the same crimes of which they accused their defeated enemies, often even greater than the Germans they put on trial. The UN refused to allow the Nuremberg show trials to set any legal or moral precedent for international law, as laws had been quickly legislated to indict Germans - retroactively. There was no separation of powers, laws were hastily legislated in London to prosecute the defeated enemy, judges partied and celebrated at numerous dinner parties in their occupied German villas with the legal prosecutors, while the accused, their lawyers and their witnesses were tortured, starved and bullied and documents withheld, destroy and falsified. While prosecuting 20 Germans for alleged "war crimes", the Americans dropped 2 atom bombs on Japan, burning alive 200 000 civilians, the Russians transported 1 million Germans to the USSR as slave laborers and the French massacred thousands of German prisoners of war without trial and tortured and starved many more. Reichsmarshall Goering, meanly denied an honourable soldier's death by a military firing squad took cyanide, denying his political enemies the pleasure of hanging him. An amazing book which brings to live with annotated documentary evidence the infamous show trial staged by the victors at the end of the second world war - and the start of the cold war.
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R. Pfeiffer
5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth Hurts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2021
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This is a wonderful book, immaculately researched. In fact this book is TOO immaculately researched, resulting in the need to demonise the author lest he should influence too many people away from the victors version of history.
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Richard
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2012
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This book is a fascinating insight as to what the reality of the Nurnberg MIT trials were all about. A trial or "show" trial from the outset, the defendants were guilty before the trial even got off the ground.
It really shows just how twisted the victors can become in order to justify the barbarity (on both sides.
The book arrived within the time stated on ordering and was about 20% cheaper than offered elsewhere.
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Mr Vernon Freestone
5.0 out of 5 stars Firstclass account of the revenge charged trials conducted far too ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2014
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Firstclass account of the revenge charged trials conducted far too close to the end of the war . A ten year period would have produced a fair and more balanced result in the light of the coldwar which followed .Nevertheless a fascinating informative account
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