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Hitler's War
''Hitler's War'' is a biographical book by David Irving. According to Irving, it describes the Second World War from the point of view of Adolf Hitler.
It was first published in April 1977 by Hodder & Stoughton (ISBN 0-340-16747-5) and Viking Press (hardcover, ISBN 0-670-37412-1). Avon Books reissued it in 1990 (paperback, ISBN 0-380-75806-7). In 2002, Focal Point Publications published a revised illustrated edition, combined together with his ''The War Path'', as a 1024-page hardcover (ISBN 1-872197-10-8).
==Primary thesis==
Hitler's War, the first published instalment of his two-part biography of Adolf Hitler (the prequel ''The War Path'' was published in 1978), had originally been published in German as ''Hitler und seine Feldherren'' (''Hitler and his Generals'') in 1975.〔Lukacs, John (1997). ''The Hitler of History''. p. 178.〕 Irving's intention in ''Hitler's War'' was to clean away the "years of grime and discoloration from the facade of a silent and forbidding monument" to reveal the real Hitler, whose reputation Irving claimed had been slandered by historians.〔.〕 In ''Hitler's War'', Irving tried to "view the situation as far as possible through Hitler's eyes, from behind his desk".〔 He portrayed Hitler as a rational, intelligent politician, whose only goal was to increase Germany's prosperity and influence on the continent, and who was constantly let down by incompetent and/or treasonous subordinates.〔 Irving's book faulted the Allied leaders, most notably Winston Churchill, for the eventual escalation of war, and claimed that the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was a "preventive war" forced on Hitler to avert an alleged impending Soviet attack (supported by some, notably Soviet GRU defector Victor Suvorov, and others; see ''Icebreaker''). Irving commented that in light of the "preventive war" that he felt Hitler was forced to wage, the ''Kommissarbefehl'' was merely something that Stalin forced on Hitler.〔Evans, Richard J (1989). ''In Hitler's Shadow''. p. 166.〕 He also claimed that Hitler had no knowledge of the Holocaust; while not outright denying its occurrence, Irving claimed that Heinrich Himmler and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich were its originators and architects. Irving made much of the lack of any written order from Hitler ordering the Holocaust, and for decades afterward offered to pay £1000 to anyone who could find such an order.〔.〕 In addition, citing the work of such historians as Harry Elmer Barnes, David Hoggan, and Frederick J.P. Veale, Irving argued that Britain was primarily responsible for the outbreak of war in 1939.
In a footnote in ''Hitler's War'', Irving first introduced the thesis later popularised in the 1980s by Ernst Nolte that a letter written by Chaim Weizmann to Neville Chamberlain on 3 September 1939, pledging the support of the Jewish Agency to the Allied war effort, constituted a "Jewish declaration of war" against Germany, thus justifying German "internment" of European Jews.〔.〕 In 1975, when without Irving's permission the firm Ullstein-Verlag removed the passages claiming Hitler had no knowledge of the Holocaust from the German edition of ''Hitler's War'', Irving sued Ullstein-Verlag.〔 Despite his much-vaunted disdain for professional historians (most of whom Irving accused of slandering Hitler), Irving attended a historians' conference in Aschaffenburg in July 1978 to discuss "Hitler Today – Problems and Aspects of Hitler Research".〔.〕 Irving spent his time at the conference attacking all of the historians present for alleged sloppy research on Hitler, and promoting ''Hitler's War'' as the only good book ever written on the ''Führer''.〔.〕 Ian Kershaw wrote that although Irving's thesis of Hitler's ignorance of the Holocaust in ''Hitler's War'' was almost universally rejected by historians, his book was of value in that it provided a huge stimulus for further research on Hitler's role in the Holocaust (which had not been widely explored until then) as a way of rebutting Irving.〔Kerhshaw, Ian ''The Nazi Dictatorship'', London: Edward Arnold 1985 page 95〕
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