Brian Hayes show

Title

Brian Hayes show

Genre

Interview

TX Date

25 Jun 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:05:58

Description

Brian Hayes interviews David Irving, whose controversial book, Hitler’s War, claims there is no documentary evidence linking Hitler personally with the mass extermination of the Jews. They discuss Irving’s crusade to redress the balance of opinion on Adolf Hitler, and Irving’s recently-published book covering the journey to war, The War Path, which questions whether the British Empire’s interests were ever endangered and whether Britain should have entered World War II. On Hitler’s War, Irving claims that whilst Hitler was constitutionally responsible for concentration camps, this aspect of Nazi rule was left to his henchmen, notably Himmler, and it is difficult to prove that Hitler was aware of what was going on.

Contributors

Brian Hayes; David Irving

Keywords

Books; Authors; Genocide; Concentration camps; Holocaust; Adolf Hitler; Historians; David Irving; Second World War; Heinrich Himmler; The War Path; Hitler’s War

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