to settle scores after the war. In 'Und Deutschlands Städte Starben Nicht : Ein Dokumentarbericht' Irving wrote a chapter about the RAF Nuremberg Raid on the night of 30-31 March 1944, in which the RAF took exceptional heavy losses. Irving describes a scene on the afternoon of 30 March, so well before the raid got started, where a German interrogation officer tries to press an English airman into talking freely since they already knew that the target of the night is Nuremberg and Germans were setting an ambush. Two days later that English airman was shown an English newspaper that confirmed the Nuremberg attack and heavy losses. Irving gives names and places, but upon verification by Middlebook the story could not stand : The English airman proved to be fictional and the German interrogator did exist, but the man himself confirmed that Germans had never been able to detect a prospective target of an air raid in advance. Also, some tactical error on the German side would have certainly been avoided if the Germans knew the target in advance. For exemple, the 'Wild Boar' fighters were sent to Berlin and not Nuremberg ; Some aircraft stationed in the vicinity of Nuremberg were either not called up, or were sent in the wrong direction. See also History Wars (Australia) Historikerstreit References Bibliography Wikisource:David Irving vs Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt Reviews David Irving