One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Davenport-Hines Richard; Sisman Adam;

Author:Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam; [Davenport-Hines, Richard; Sisman, Adam;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780191008191
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-09-19T10:00:00+00:00

On the morning of Saturday 23 April, the very morning that Trevor-Roper’s article announcing the discovery of the Hitler diaries was published in The Times, he spoke by telephone to the editor, Charles Douglas-Home (1937–85), and told him that he could no longer stand by the judgement he had made. Though the Sunday Times was due to start serializing the diaries the next day and planned a banner headline headed ‘World Exclusive’, Trevor-Roper’s volte-face was not transmitted to its editor Frank Giles, who had been Trevor-Roper’s friend for over thirty years, or to anyone else on the newspaper, until Giles telephoned him at 7.00 o’clock on Saturday evening. Trevor-Roper’s admission that he had changed his mind caused consternation at the Sunday Times offices, where the presses had already started to roll. Rupert Murdoch’s response, when contacted by telephone in New York, was ‘Fuck Dacre. Publish’.

That Monday, Trevor-Roper attended a press conference in Hamburg at which Stern announced its discovery to the world’s press. The event, which became chaotic, was excruciating for him. When, after the press conference, the documents were swiftly proven to be forgeries, he was humiliated and his reputation damaged. The standing of the Sunday Times as an investigative newspaper was also diminished by these events. In contrast, Trevor-Roper’s enemies at Peterhouse were exultant.

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