The comments in this thread about the anti-Hitler German resistance hindering German efforts in Normandy are interesting. I spoke to a (now deceased) 9th SS Frundsberg veteran in the 1990's called Rudi Splinter. He recalled that during Normandy it was felt that their efforts against the Allies were hindered by ammunition shortages. He recalled a story that a company of men were sent to the rear to some ammunition storage bunkers to requisition some ammunition. The ammunition supply there was allegedly almost unlimited. A "fat army Colonel" tried to turn the Frundsberg men away saying that they would need to go to Paris as their paperwork was not satisfactory. The SS officer in charge, drew out his pistol and immediately shot the Colonel dead, announcing that he was "clearly a traitor" and that the men should fill their trucks with as much ammunition as they could carry and return to the front. Perhaps the story was embellished, perhaps not.
As for David Irving books, I have several - they're excellent reads. I think even his 'enemies' have admitted in the past that he is a brilliant researcher, that he goes for source material (rather than re-gurgitating other's material as so many other historians do) and has interviewed many first-hand witnesses of the period. Contrary to popular opinion his books are sometimes critical of the Third Reich, and not some kind of 'Neo-Nazi white-wash'. If they were they would not have been published by mainstream publishers, as they were until his fall from grace...
As for David Irving books, I have several - they're excellent reads. I think even his 'enemies' have admitted in the past that he is a brilliant researcher, that he goes for source material (rather than re-gurgitating other's material as so many other historians do) and has interviewed many first-hand witnesses of the period. Contrary to popular opinion his books are sometimes critical of the Third Reich, and not some kind of 'Neo-Nazi white-wash'. If they were they would not have been published by mainstream publishers, as they were until his fall from grace...
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