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Vervalsingen in Brits archief

Gepubliceerd: 10 mei 2008
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Rotterdam, 10 mei. SS-baas Heinrich Himmler pleegde geen zelfmoord op 23 mei 1945, hij werd vermoord door de Britse geheime dienst, in opdracht van Winston Churchill.

Gedurende een periode van zes jaar zijn er vervalste archiefstukken de National Archives in Londen binnengesmokkeld die deze, onjuiste, versie van de geschiedenis moeten onderbouwen. In de brieven en notulen overleggen Britse politici en militairen over de moord.

Het gaat in totaal om 29 archiefstukken, verspreid over twaalf dossiers. Dit blijkt uit interne onderzoeksdocumenten die de National Archives deze week op hun website publiceerden.

De vervalsingen hebben waarschijnlijk tussen 1999 en 2005 hun weg naar de archieven gevonden. De informatie uit de stukken is terechtgekomen in tenminste twee boeken: Himmler’s Secret War van Martin Allen en Hitler’s Death van Joseph Bellinger. De laatste staat bekend als holocaustontkenner, de eerste wordt door de politie verdacht van de documentensmokkel.

Volgens het Britse Openbaar Ministerie was het echter ‘niet in het publiek belang ’ om Allen te vervolgen. Deze beslissing heeft geleid tot ophef in Britse academische kringen. In een open brief aan de Financial Times spraken deze week onder anderen John Keegan, Ian Kershaw, Antony Beevor en Niall Ferguson, vier van de meest vooraanstaande historici van het land, hun verbazing uit over de beslissing van de openbaar aanklager. Verder eisten ze een uitgebreid onderzoek naar de gang van zaken op het nationaal archief.

Uit de forensische rapporten die zijn gepubliceerd op de site van de National Archives blijkt dat de vervalser weliswaar oude typmachines gebruikte voor de correspondentie, maar dat de briefhoofden met behulp van een laserprinter vervaardigd waren. Verder stond er in de stukken een aantal feitelijke onjuistheden en was het taalgebruik soms te modern. Potloodsporen onder de handtekening van Winston Churchills vertrouweling Brendan Bracken duiden erop dat die van een ander document is overgetrokken.

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za mei 10, 2008 1:36 pm
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De vervalsingen hebben waarschijnlijk tussen 1999 en 2005 hun weg naar de archieven gevonden. De informatie uit de stukken is terechtgekomen in tenminste twee boeken: Himmler’s Secret War van Martin Allen en Hitler’s Death van Joseph Bellinger. De laatste staat bekend als holocaustontkenner, de eerste wordt door de politie verdacht van de documentensmokkel.
Ook Martin Allen is niet helemaal vrij van, hoe zal ik het zeggen, het 'masseren' van de feiten zodat ze wat beter in zijn straatje passen..

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za mei 10, 2008 2:58 pm
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Een oud topic maar ik kwam toevallig vandaag nog dit artikel tegen waarin wat gedetailleerder ingegaan wordt op het bedrog van Martin Allen...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 867853.ece
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From The Sunday Times
May 4, 2008
Forgeries revealed in the National Archives
David Leppard

IT began with a letter uncovered nine years ago addressed by a duke to “Dear Mr Hitler”. One of the most extraordinary academic detective stories of modern times ended yesterday when the National Archives, the official custodian of Britain’s history, admitted that it had been the victim of a master forger.

The public records office, which holds the written record of the British state going back 800 years, said its reputation had been compromised by the discovery that 29 documents from 12 separate files were all forgeries inserted into its records.

The forged documents all relate to alleged British perfidy in the second world war. The archive says the papers had supported sensational allegations by Martin Allen, a self-styled “eminent” historian, in three recent books. These include claims that the Duke of Windsor was a traitor and that British agents had murdered Hitler’s SS boss, Heinrich Himmler, on Winston Churchill’s orders.

The archive also released witness statements given by senior officials to the police. In one of them, Louise Atherton, an archivist, is particularly critical of Allen, saying he “relied heavily” on forged files and accusing him of “significant” exaggeration and inaccurate quotation in his use of the contents of genuine ones.

Allen was unavailable yesterday. One of his former literary agents, Robert Smith, said that Allen had previously denied any involvement in the forgeries.

Suspicions about the authenticity of documents used by Allen were raised by The Sunday Times eight years ago in relation to his book Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies.

It accused the Queen’s uncle of helping the Germans to conquer France and defeat the British army in the early stages of the second world war.

Allen’s scoop was based largely on what he said was a handwritten letter from the duke to Adolf Hitler dated November 1939. It begins, “Dear Mr Hitler”, and is signed, “EP”, for Edward Prince, an abbreviation the duke occasionally used.

The letter makes veiled references to a tour of the French frontline defences that the duke had just made. It asks Hitler to pay close attention to information the man bringing the letter to him has memorised.

The courier was a German spy, and Allen argues that through him the duke gave Hitler top-secret strategic information that enabled the Germans to attack France at the weakest points in its defences. France fell in six weeks and the British forces were routed.

The letter appears to suggest that the duke, who abdicated in 1936, was willing to resume the throne once Britain had been bullied into a peace settlement.

The Sunday Times commissioned experts to examine the document. Robert Radley, a forensic documents examiner, found “many discrepancies” that made him “highly suspicious”.

Leslie Dicks, another expert, concluded that the letter was “most probably a forgery”.

A paper analyst, Peter Bower, found evidence the letter had been written on a blank page from an old book, a classic forger’s trick. This and other evidence, Bower said, “all combine to suggest that this letter is a forgery and probably done relatively recently”.

When challenged to explain these findings, Allen insisted the letter was genuine. He said it had been given to his late father, also a writer on the Nazi era, by Albert Speer, Hitler’s former munitions minister. He said he had found it in his attic.

The Sunday Times declined to serialise the book but it was published and The Observer newspaper nominated Hidden Agenda for book of the year.

There the matter might have lain as an unresolved mystery but in 2003 Allen published The Hitler/Hess Deception, which argued that the flight of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, in 1941 was part of a plot to oust Churchill. Once again Allen was challenging the standard version of events, and using documents to prove his thesis.

His next book, Himmler’s Secret War, published two years later, reinforced the forgery concerns. It cited documents from the National Archives that purported to show that British agents acting on Churchill’s orders murdered Himmler, the head of the SS, in 1945 in order to cover up British peace feelers towards him. This contradicted accepted accounts that Himmler had killed himself.

Alarm bells soon rang. Letter-heads on the correspondence supposedly written in 1945 had been created on a high-resolution laser printer. Signatures were found to be written over pencil tracings. Handwriting of different officials was suspiciously similar. Diplomatic titles and key dates were wrong.

Once more Allen denied culpability. He told The Sunday Times: “I think I have been set up. But I do not even know by whom. I am devastated.”

The National Archives conducted an investigation which confirmed that five documents used in the book had been forged. The inquiry also discovered more forged documents, cited in The Hitler/Hess Deception and in Hidden Agenda. Once 17 documents had been identified as likely forgeries, Scot-land Yard was called in. Allen was interviewed by police. Again he denied forgery.

Last year Mike O’Brien, then solicitor-general, said in a parliamentary answer the Crown Prosecution Service had decided there was enough evidence against Allen “to provide a realistic prospect of conviction”. The CPS had decided, however, it was not in the public interest to proceed. He said Allen’s “health and the surrounding circumstances” had contributed to the decision. There was no further explanation.

That decision has upset some leading historians. Sir Max Hastings, an expert on the second world war, said: “It is hard to imagine actions more damaging to the cause of preserving the nation’s heritage than wilfully forging documents designed to alter our historical record.”

John Fox, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany, said the National Archives’ statement casts doubt on the veracity of documents in other collections.

“How on earth were these documents slipped in? This is something that the National Archives has to answer. Whoever got these documents in must have done it in a very clever, sneaky way, so you can’t entirely blame the security. But maybe there are questions with the security.”

The National Archives said yesterday that new security procedures had been put in place.

Additional reporting: Anna Mikhailova


za jul 31, 2010 9:25 pm
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De vervalste documenten staan trouwens hier online: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/foi/log2007.htm

Het doet mij denken aan de discussies die wij hier jaren geleden hadden met "Scaramouse", "Frundsberger" en "panzermeyer" die toen grote bezwaren hadden tegen mijn opvatting dat de verbanden tussen Allen en neonazistische organisaties overduidelijk waren.

Wikipedia heeft de hele zaak nog eens nauwkeurig samengevat...
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In June 2005 journalist Ben Fenton of The Daily Telegraph received an email from a colleague asking him to investigate documents held at TNA that alleged that a British intelligence agent had, on the orders of Winston Churchill, murdered Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, in 1945.[11]

The three documents had come to prominence after being revealed by author Martin Allen in his book Himmler's Secret War.[11]

On viewing photographs of the documents Fenton's suspicions were immediately aroused by the fact that such a controversial policy was casually committed to paper, even to the extent of naming the assassin, and by the use of colourful language, unlike the civil service language of the 1940s used by senior Foreign Office officials John Wheeler-Bennett and Robert Bruce-Lockhart.[11]

Viewing the original documents the next day, Fenton spotted what looked like pencil marks beneath the signature on one of them. This confirmed his suspicions and, along with his experience of analysing historic documents, it enabled him to persuade The Daily Telegraph to pay for forensic analysis.[11]

TNA staff took four files, along with authenticated copies of the authors' handwriting, to Dr Audrey Giles, a former head of Scotland Yard's Questioned Documents Unit where she confirmed that the documents were certainly forgeries. One letter head had been printed on a laser printer, the earliest example of which was produced in 1977 and all had tear marks where they had been threaded on to the security tags. Further investigations by TNA staff revealed that the counterfeit documents contained errors, breaches of protocol and etiquette which their supposed authors would not have committed, prompting one expert to state that the inconsistencies in the papers "would lead any serious historian to question their veracity".[11]

After his account of the deception appeared in the newspaper, Fenton was contacted by a German academic, Ernst Haiger, who informed him of his own suspicions over other TNA documents cited in an earlier Allen book. Examination by TNA experts led to more than a dozen documents being identified as suspicious and submitted to Home Office specialists for examination. When they, too, were declared forgeries, the TNA called in the police.[11]

In the addendum to the later American edition of the book (which acknowledged the fact that the papers were forged), Allen theorised that, some time after he saw the documents, they had been removed and replaced with clumsily forged replicas, to cast doubt upon his discoveries.[11]

In all, twenty-nine forged documents were discovered, each typed on one of only four typewriters. They were placed in twelve separate files, and cited at least once in one or more of Allen's three books. According to the experts at TNA, documents now shown to be forgeries supported controversial arguments central to each of Allen's books: in Hidden Agenda, five documents now known to be forged helped justify his claim that the Duke of Windsor betrayed military secrets to Hitler; in The Hitler/Hess Deception, thirteen forged papers supported Allen's contention that, in 1941, British intelligence used members of the Royal Family to fool the Nazis into thinking Britain was on the verge of a pro-German putsch; in Himmler's Secret War, twenty-two counterfeit papers also underpinned the book's core claims that British intelligence played mind games with Himmler to encourage him to betray Hitler from 1943 onwards, and that ultimately they murdered the SS chief.[11]

In 2007 the Crown Prosecution Service announced that it was "not in the public interest" to prosecute the only suspect questioned by police. Allen's health problems had prevented the police questioning him for nine months, after which he told them he was wholly innocent. In a December 2007 response to questions from Norman Baker MP, the Solicitor-General said that the police investigation, guided by the opinion of a senior barrister, had produced "sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction" on charges of forgery, using a forged document and criminal damage but it had been decided that it was not in the public interest to proceed. In reaching that decision, "matters relating to Mr Allen's health and the surrounding circumstances were significant in deciding that a prosecution was not in the public interest".[11]
“ a well-planned attempt to corrupt the UK's primary source of historical information ”

—Detective Inspector Andy Perrott , Financial Times, 3rd May 2008

“ It is hard to imagine actions more damaging to the cause of preserving the nation's heritage, than wilfully forging documents designed to alter our historical record. ”

—Historian Sir Max Hastings , Financial Times, 3rd May 2008


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation ... _forgeries


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Goed om zulk bedrog nog eens uitvoeriger onder de aandacht te brengen.

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Wist hier niets van, wat een lef, levenslang! 8)

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Ter aanvulling een bericht van vandaag van de Daily Mail: Himmler revealed in soldier's war diary. Niet echt opzienbarend nieuws overigens; de feiten waren al reeds bekend.

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