Odd things are developing with the BBC's plan to film me for a "Storyville" documentary on the suppression of free speech. I send them this e-mail in the evening:
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Can you please give me a two line reason why the [Nick Fraser] interview is to be filmed in the open on Saturday?
I am wise to the ways to the BBC and other television companies, to the point of paranoia.
If the intention is to make me appear a rootless outsider, hence the filming outside, I won't go along with it. I have perfectly good premises here at Duke Street, with a study where I am normally filmed. . . . As said, two lines in writing, please.
In the evening I check the e-mails. One is a message from the BBC explaining (unsatisfactorily) the arrangements for tomorrow.
Up at 9:15 a.m. with a headache. Black cab to
Hyde Park. Nick Fraser turns up. I refuse to be filmed at the Holocaust memorial. Nick says the Imperial War Museum refused to allow me to be filmed there, muttering something about "problems" they had after letting us hold the launch of Churchill's War, vol. i on H.M.S. Belfast in 1987.
Interviewed for an hour, in a biting wind, drizzle and sunshine, at Speakers Corner.
It goes moderately well, except they spring a minor ambush -- a printed Monopoly-style game board, called Pogromly (in Fraktur), with gas chambers and jackboots, which they claim to have bought off neo-Nazis in Germany; as they left, Customs at Frankfurt asked what it was and, told they were flying to England to film somebody, the officer said: "Would that be Mr Irving?"
Asked about the board, altho' momentarily nonplussed, I say it is probably manufactured by agents provocateurs, and I tell Fraser of the hired Skinheads who trooped into the front rank of my audience at Halle in Germany in 1991 and gave the Hitler salute and shouted Siegheil.
It looks of suspiciously good-quality manufacture.
Fraser says he interviewed the head of the Verfassungsschutz, Germany's leftwing FBI, who dislikes me.
I reply: "Can't say I like him much, either." I remind Fraser he's on a BBC contract and will say nothing to jeopardize that; while I am free as a bird, constrained only by the limits of my own courage. At the end, I say I find the Holocaust boring.
"But you write about it!"
"No I don't. I never have. The reason the others make so much of it is that they are making money out of it, billions in the last year or so, and it is the only interesting thing that has happened to them in three thousand years; they are using it as an adhesive to keep their splintering people together."
AW: "Dönermorde"..... NAZI-Hysterie und der Verfassungsschutz
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Gehöre zu den Scharen, die zwischen Maas und Memel, Etsch und Belt, immer schon hier waren!
