"[When] I phoned the doctor and he said ‘I’ve been expecting you,’ the Messiah had come. The one he had been waiting for all these years. And of course all the other historians hate that because they don’t fit.' I stare silently for a moment. To clarify: you actually think Hitler wanted you to be his biographer? 'Yes. Yes and I am not ashamed of that. Hitler knew that. Hitler himself said that for fifty years they won’t be able to write the truth about me.'
And I realize this interview isn’t about history; it’s about pathology."
-- Johann Hari, interviewing the plain ol' batshit crazy David Irving, for The Independent.
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