https://irving.video/videos/watch/5249b046-9ba6-4605-8db3-92463c8a9237 OverviewA lecture in which Irving discusses his forthcoming book on Winston Churchill, focusing on editorial pressures and historical revisionism. Irving examines how Churchill's wartime memoirs were shaped by American editors at Time-Life Corporation, and presents archival evidence regarding funding sources for the Nazi party and the suppression of correspondence with Heinrich Brüning. The presentation places this within Irving's broader historiographical project of challenging established wartime narratives. Topics coveredEditorial intervention in Churchill's six-volume Second World War memoirs by Time-Life Corporation 00:02:03, Heinrich Brüning's 1937 letter to Churchill identifying Berlin bankers as major Nazi party financiers 00:04:01, Foreign funding sources for the Nazi party, including French intelligence and American arms manufacturers 00:05:01, Irving's 1959 experience as a steelworker in Germany and encounter with a Dresden air raid survivor 00:06:02, The Dresden bombing of February 13, 1945, and Irving's subsequent bestselling book on the subject 00:07:01, Irving's ten-year research project on Hitler using interviews with surviving staff and private documents 00:09:03, Churchill's role as a source of wartime propaganda and postwar historical distortion 00:10:01, Key momentsIrving describes discovering private correspondence between Churchill and Time-Life editors in Columbia University archives showing American intervention in the manuscript's direction 00:03:02, Irving recalls learning about the Dresden bombing from a German steelworker roommate in 1960, fifteen years after the war, shocked that such an event had been absent from English public knowledge 00:07:01, Irving states his conclusion that "a lot of what we had been told about [Hitler] was lies" and attributes this to Churchill's wartime propaganda strategy continuing after 1945 00:10:01, SourceRecorded at a public lecture venue in North America (audience references Detroit and Canadian Macmillan distribution suggest North American setting), circa 1986 based on the book's publication date. The moderator's introduction suggests an academic or intellectual society forum rather than broadcast television or radio. No publisher or broadcast network is identified in the available material. About this archive: irving.video preserves the lectures, interviews, and TV appearances of historian David Irving. All videos are captioned, every transcript is searchable. Books at irvingbooks.com. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:06:57 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://irving.video https://irving.video/lazy-static/avatars/217f0272-12b9-4650-9c50-a2b60755061b.jpg https://irving.video/videos/watch/5249b046-9ba6-4605-8db3-92463c8a9237 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://irving.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.