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Nuremberg: The Last Battle 纽伦堡-最后的战斗 by David Irving

【书名】Nuremberg: The Last Battle 纽伦堡-最后的战斗

【作者】David Irving

【格式】PDF

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【简介】

As stated in the title of by David Irving's book, the Nuremberg Trial was the last battle of World War II in Europe. Nazi Germany had already been physically destroyed by the superior military power of the Allies. The purpose of Nuremberg was to demonstrate to the world the unparalleled evil of Nazism and, consequently, the fact that the Allied military victory constituted the triumph of superior morality.

A great and wonderfully written history of one of the darker times in our history. David Irving created a splendid work on this trial of the century. He describes in detail all of the participants and how they interacted. The purpose behind the trials at Nuremberg was to identify the various German and Italian leaders, brand them as war criminals and punish them with the full severity of international law. Irving used original documents including diaries and papers of the lawyers,of the judges, and of the defendants. With his concise style, Irving describes every facet of the trial. He also makes a very good point as to the hypocritical nature of the Allies. While the Allies had won the conflagration, they were trying these leaders for the same things they were also guilty of doing.

【作者介绍】

作者David Irving是英国史学界极富争议的一个人。他并没有受过什么系统的专业训练，属于半路出家。对于他的学术才能，业界褒贬不一，但有一点得到大家公认的是他在发掘历史材料上的贡献：如果没有他，许多包括的历史资料将会湮没在浩瀚的历史海洋中。
他的一些作品，除已经提到的‘沙漠之狐’外，象‘德累斯顿的毁灭’、‘ＰＱ１７护航队的灾难’等，都曾经引起过不错的反响。在他所有的作品中，他丝毫没有掩饰他对纳粹的同情态度。由于他的这种态度，和否认纳粹屠杀犹太人的历史罪行，使他在欧洲一些国家象英国、奥地利等，受到了不同程度的法律制裁，并从此隔离于学术圈之外。但尽管如此，他的书还是非常好看的。里面大量的历史细节也是真实的。

【书评】

Highly readable and troubling work - exposing the hypocrisy of the Allied leaders in their "noble" quest to exact justice at Nuremburg. The deep hate vengeful nature of Allied leaders Morgenthau, Churchill, Eisenhower and even Roosevelt are exposed in their full reality. From documented meeting discussions at Yalta, Tehran, Quebec and Washington - Irving reveals the underlying personal agendas of these men. From the Germanophobic vindictiveness of Henry Morganthau (who's infamous "Morganthau Plan " was finally smashed by a more cool headed and straight thinking Truman) - to the historically documented (and long supressed) distastful and disgusting political discussions between Churchill and Stalin ---- Churchill's coziness with "Uncle Joe" and the jocular amnner in which he agreed to the partitioning of Eastern Europe, repatriation of Russian defectors, and the deprotation 5,000,000 Germans as reparation slave laborers is particularly dispicable --- and completely ignored by the current "candy-store" history establishment bent on painting a completely one-sided account of WWII. War is ugly - plain and simple --- and both sides will do whatever it takes to win.
The "establishment" will criticize Irving and this book because it doesn't like the mirror he holds to their faces. I fail to see how publishing verbatim transcripts of meetings and words spoken by these leaders (Irving fully footnotes and sources his quotes) - in which they fully reveal their true feelings and ambitions - is regarded as "garbage analysis." We don't always like the truth - but that never erases it.
My family personnally experienced the repurcussions of Churchill's and Roosevelt's monumental failures at Tehran and Yalta - in which they handed Stalin the easten half of Poland he originally negotiated and waged aggressive war for after the Ribbentop-Molotov pact. While the Nuremburg judgements were justified -- they were also SELECTIVE --- Regardless of what establishement "feel-good" historians want us to believe. At the very least Iving' book makes us think deeper about the command "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Interesting how it was the Stalin's Soviet Union who was most eager to begin flinging the rocks - and the declining British Empire ---- who colonized most of the globe though millitary aggression --- which claimed "moral authority."