Oddball
07-02-2005, 06:23 AM
Files on Himmler 'murder' exposed as fake
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 02/07/2005)
Documents from the National Archives used to substantiate claims that British intelligence agents murdered Heinrich Himmler in 1945 are forgeries, The Daily Telegraph can reveal today.
It seems certain that the bogus documents were somehow planted among genuine papers to pervert the course of historical study.
The results of investigations by forensic document experts on behalf of this newspaper have shocked historians and caused tremors at the Archives, the home of millions of historical documents, which has previously been thought immune to distortion or contamination.
The allegation that the SS leader was murdered, with the knowledge of Churchill and War Cabinet ministers, appeared in Himmler's Secret War, published in May.
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=X2SWKYCAO445HQFIQMFCNAGAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/02/ixportaltop.html)
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By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 02/07/2005)
Documents from the National Archives used to substantiate claims that British intelligence agents murdered Heinrich Himmler in 1945 are forgeries, The Daily Telegraph can reveal today.
It seems certain that the bogus documents were somehow planted among genuine papers to pervert the course of historical study.
The results of investigations by forensic document experts on behalf of this newspaper have shocked historians and caused tremors at the Archives, the home of millions of historical documents, which has previously been thought immune to distortion or contamination.
The allegation that the SS leader was murdered, with the knowledge of Churchill and War Cabinet ministers, appeared in Himmler's Secret War, published in May.
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=X2SWKYCAO445HQFIQMFCNAGAVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/02/nhimmler02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/02/ixportaltop.html)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2005/07/02/nhimmler02big.gif