David Irving Comments: "He tells newspapers that a distant elderly relative of Alois Hitler was responsible for the upkeep of the grave and that this lady, whom he does not identify, agreed to the dismantling. How convenient. Having tasted solitary confinement in an Austrian prison for fourteen months myself, I can only guess at the pressures to which she was subjected â€" what blandishments, or threats of official brutality. I remember an 88-year-old widow, Eleonore Kien, a poor pensioner, writing to me with her enfeebled hand that she had complained to the President of Austria about my incarceration; the secret police intercepted her letter, and she was fined a thousand euros under the same law. She no longer writes to me, being no doubt where Alois and Klara Hitler are. The wretched priest complains that the grave attracted too many sympathetic pilgrims. Many more than will ever visit the graves of recent presidents or their parents, I suspect. The same excuse was offered! last year in Germany, for digging up and removing the entire grave site of Rudolf Hess and his family, "with the consent" of his descendants. These parish priests, these truly Godless men, are playing politics with the long-dead. They are not the first. After Benito Mussolini had telephoned his placet to Germany's Anschluss with Austria in March 1938, Hitler turned to his staff and said that now for the first time in over a decade he could return to his native Austria and do what Chancellor Kurt
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