David Irving notes that a diary is a more reliable historical reference than a memoire. This is an interesting reminder of why a blog is closer to the burnt-in revelations of the permanent record and
“Modern paper is very white. It's white because it has a whitener, a flourescent. If you hold this paper in a night-club, under what's called a black light, an ultraviolet light, it glows, it glows white. If you have a Hitler document in a night-club and it glows in a night club, that's been written post-war.” ... They had written so many legal affidavits post war based on the Engel diaries – the affidavits had been used in war crimes trials against German citizens – that if they admitted the Engel diaries were fake, the affidavits would have to be withdrawan and the cases retried.” -David Irving.