Martin Allen (Author)

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Martin Allen (* 1958 in Caerphilly , South Wales ) is a British author and history reviser who deals with the Second World War in his books . While his theses have received little response from historians, they enjoy great popularity in right-wing extremist circles.

Allen's theses

In his books he writes about alleged attempts by the Germans to negotiate peace with England during the Second World War . He sees an anti-German conspiracy at work on the British side. He claims to have found out from archival records of the British Foreign Office that Germany was ready to make sweeping concessions for peace. However, the British side only made these negotiations pretend, since Winston Churchill , whom he identifies as the real culprit of the Second World War, promised the final annihilation of Germany if the Soviet Union and the USA entered the war.

Rudolf Hess is stylized by Allen as a "peace aviator" who flew to Scotland in May 1941 on Hitler's personal order to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom. Previously, Adolf Hitler is said to have submitted a total of 42 peace proposals to the British. SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler is also said to have been in secret contact with the British from 1943 onwards. According to Allen's account, Himmler's death was not a suicide , but a murder by the British secret service to prevent Himmler from burdening the Churchill government with statements about secret peace negotiations that Washington was unaware of when he was interrogated by the Americans have.

reception

Allen's books are not taken seriously by experts. Source-critical, u. a. Forensic investigations have shown that Allen's presentation of the background to the Hess flight is based on forged papers which, by Allen or his wife, were tampered with in files in the British National Archives. A key document in his book "Dear Herr Hitler ...: 1939/1940: This is how the Duke of Windsor wanted to save the peace" is an alleged letter from the Duke to Hitler, which Allen claims to have inherited from his father Peter Allen, who wrote him received from Albert Speer ; How this should have come into his possession is not disclosed. This letter is considered a forgery by several experts. In this book, too, papers in the British National Archives are used as sources which have been identified as forgeries through investigations by historians, criminologists and archivists. Allen's books do not meet the standards of serious historiography. They contain a lot of false information and also messages that are based on free invention (an example: A "Helmut Blummenstrauss" who is said to have worked at the German embassy in Madrid during World War II and whom Allen claims to have interviewed for his Himmler book, according to information from the Foreign Office was never in its service).

Allen's theses are mainly represented in Germany by Olaf Rose , Stefan Scheil and Michael Vogt , who have so far not refuted the allegations of falsification. The German editions of his books are published by Druffel-Verlag and Adoria-Verlag, which are assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum.

The forged documents

In support of the allegations made in his books, Martin Allen resorted to a series of papers in the British National Archives that turned out to be forgeries and that Allen himself had smuggled into. A total of 29 false documents were discovered in 12 volumes of files and in each case they were those that were used exclusively by everyone in his books. In addition, a review of the records of access to the files kept since 1994 showed that exactly two people had access to more than three of the 12 compromised files: Martin Allen and his wife Jean. Allen himself denies any involvement and sees himself as a victim of fraud, but eludes an argumentative discussion of the allegations of falsification.

See also

Fonts

  • Dear Herr Hitler ...: 1939/1940: This is how the Duke of Windsor wanted to save the peace . Inning am Ammersee: Druffel-Verlag, 2001. (German translation of: Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies , London: Macmillan 2000)
  • Churchill's peace trap. The secret of the Hess flight in 1941 . Stegen: Druffel-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-8061-1153-7 (translation of The Hitler / Hess Deception: British Intelligence's Best Kept Secret of the Second World War , London: HarperCollins 2003). ISBN 0-00-714118-1 . - New edition 2015 by Adoria-Verlag, Naunhof, ISBN 978-3-944951-20-1 . (Contrary to the publisher's statement "corrected, completely revised edition", only very little has been changed apart from the cover).
  • The Himmler plot 1943–1945. The secret peace negotiations between the Reichsführer SS and the British and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death . Stegen am Ammersee: Druffel & Vowinckel-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-8061-1175-8 . (Translated from Himmler's Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler , London: Chrysalis Books 2005)

literature

  • Ernst Haiger: Fiction, Facts, and Forgeries. The "Revelations" of Peter and Martin Allen about the History of the Second World War . In: The Journal of Intelligence History 6, Summer 2006 (published 2007), No. 1, ISSN  1616-1262 , pp. 105-117; https://vdocuments.site/documents/5750a34e1a28abcf0ca1b106.html
  • Ders .: Forgeries on the history of World War II in the British National Archives . - In: Christian Müller-Straten: Counterfeit Detection , Vol. 2. Verlag Dr. Christian Müller-Straten, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-932704-85-7 , pp. 211-221.
  • Roy Conyers Nesbit, Georges Van Acker: The Flight of Rudolf Hess. Myths and Reality . Revised Paperback Edition. Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2007, ISBN 978-0-7509-4757-2 , pp. 133-138.
  • David Thomas: Forgery in the Archives . In: Archives. The Journal of the British Records Association Vol. 34 No. 120 (2009), pp. 21-35. Cf. same: Forgeries in the archives , The National Archives Podcast, August 28, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sven Felix Kellerhoff : National Archive shows forged Himmler files , Die Welt , May 4, 2008
  2. Dear Mr Hitler: forgeries fool Brits ( Memento of May 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in The Australian May 5, 2008
  3. UK police find Himmler / Churchill archive forgeries Reuters May 3, 2008
  4. ^ The 29 fakes behind a rewriting of history The Guardian May 5, 2008
  5. Ben Fenton: Cover Story: Lies And Secrets ( Memento of May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times May 3, 2008
  6. ^ Forgeries revealed in the National Archives Timesonline (Sunday Times) May 4, 2008
  7. ^ Dossier ( memento of October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of the British National Archives on the case