https://irving.video/videos/watch/b0a6c125-cd02-46db-b83f-bc7d863b9111 OverviewIrving delivers a lecture examining the procedural and evidential problems of the Nuremberg trials, focusing on how the prosecution selectively withheld documentary evidence from the defense and coerced testimony. He contrasts the American adversarial approach with the German legal system's obligation to arrive at truth, citing specific cases including Göring, Milch, and Dönitz to illustrate his argument about the trials' structural unfairness. Topics coveredWilliam Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and its reliance on Nuremberg documents 00:00:00, The Göring Air Ministry conference records: eighty volumes of verbatim transcripts locked away by the British 00:01:09, Fritz Sauckel's statements on humane labor treatment, withheld from the defense 00:02:05, American destruction of documentary evidence and the gaps left in the historical record 00:04:00, Karl Wolf's detention in a lunatic asylum to prevent him testifying for the defense 00:05:00, Ernest Englander's threat to Field Marshal Milch: fabricate war crimes charges if he refused to testify against Göring 00:07:03, The American Navy's August 1945 assessment that Admiral Dönitz committed no crimes, contradicted by his later indictment 00:10:03, The case of U-boat captain Leutnant Eck and the sinking of the Greek ship Palaeo 00:10:03, Key momentsIrving describes spending six months reading eighty volumes of Göring's Air Ministry conferences—roughly 60,000–70,000 pages—while writing his biography, only to discover the Americans had selected fragments for Nuremberg 00:01:09, Karl Wolf's statement from the witness box at the Milch trial: "I would like to ask the judges on the bench if they have been satisfied with my evidence. And if they consider that I am a person of sane mind"—followed by his revelation that Americans were about to return him to an asylum 00:05:00, Irving recounts Englander's explicit threat to Milch: "We are capable of forging a case against any German that we want to for our own purposes" 00:07:03, SourceThe recording is archived on Odysee and added to the David Irving Video Archive on 2 April 2026. No venue, date of recording, or original broadcaster is specified in the available metadata. The audience and recording context are not identified from the transcript excerpt provided. 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 02:06:18 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/b0a6c125-cd02-46db-b83f-bc7d863b9111 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://irving.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.