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According to Walter Weidauer, mayor of Dresden from 1946 – 1958, Irving based his numbers on a falsified document promulgated by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as claims made after the war by a former Dresden Nazi functionary, Hanns Voigt, without verifying them against official sources available in Dresden ( Walter Weidauer, < em > Inferno Dresden </ em > Dietz Verlag, 1965 ; Abridged edition, 1990, ISBN 3-320-00818-8 ).

Irving published a letter to the editor in < em > The Times </ em > of London on 7 July 1966, admitting that the data in his book were not credible.