In 1955 Harry Elmer Barnes encouraged him to expand his Harvard dissertation into 'The Forced War', and obtained the financial assistance necessary for this undertaking. However, disagreement between them about some citations in the work resulted in a decision by the scheduled publisher, Devin-Adair, to withdraw from the project. It was finally published in 1989 by the IHR under the title 'The Forced War: Why Peaceful Revision Failed'. Despite his objections on minor points, Barnes characterized 'The Forced War' in these words: "In its present form, it not only constitutes the first thorough study of the responsibility for the causes of the Second World War in any language, but is likely to remain the definitive revisionist work on this subject for many years."

The 'Forced War' compliments 'The Origins of The Second World War', the best-selling non-conformist examination of the conflict by the brilliant British historian A. J. P. Taylor. But in contrast to virtually every other work on this subject, H.'s study made extensive use of Polish sources. Also in contrast to Taylor and others, H. closely examined the oppression of Poland's ethnic German minority, which was an important factor in Hitler's decision to go to war against the Polish state. H.'s detailed study was published in Germany in 1961 by Grabert Verlag (Tübingen) under the title 'Der Erzwungene Krieg'. It generated prompt and wide attention. The work was attacked by West Germany's historical establishment. 

According to H.. a conspiracy was headed by the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, who had seized control of British foreign policy in October 1938 from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, assisted by Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Józef Beck. H. argued that Hitler's foreign policy was entirely peaceful and moderate, and that it was Nazi Germany that was in H.'s opinion an innocent victim of Allied aggression. Moreover, H. accused the Polish government of engaging in what he called hideous persecution of its German minority, and claimed that the Polish government's policies towards the ethnic German minority were far worse than the Nazi regime's policies towards the Jewish minority. A particular area of controversy centered around H.’s claim that the situation of German Jewry before World War II was favorable to the Jewish community in Germany, and that none of the various antisemitic laws and measures of the Nazis had any deleterious effects on German Jews.

One of H.'s leading detractors was the historian Hans Rothfels, the director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History), who used the journal of the Institute, the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte to attack H. and his work. Another leading critic was the U.S. historian Gerhard Weinberg, who noted that H.’s method comprised taking of all Hitler’s “peace speeches” at face value, and ignored evidence in favor of German intentions for aggression.
    
In 1964, the German historian Helmut Krausnick, associated with the Institute for Contemporary History, accused H. of manufacturing much of his "evidence". Another point of criticism was the decision of two German historical societies to award H. the ' Leopold von Ranke' and ' Ulrich von Hutten' Prizes for outstanding scholarship.  

In 1969 a short book was published called ' The Myth of the Six Million', denying the Holocaust. The book listed no author, but the work was by H., though published without his permission. The book was published by the ' Noontide Press', a small Los Angeles-based publisher owned and operated by Willis Carto. ' The Myth of the Six Million' was one of the first books, if not the first book in the English language to deny the Holocaust.

Several of H.'s historical writings have appeared only in German, including 'Frankreichs Widerstand gegen den Zweiten Weltkrieg' ("France's Resistance Against the Second World War"), published by Grabert in 1963, 'Der unnötige Krieg' ("The Unnecessary War"), published in 1976, and the two-part book, 'Das blinde Jahrhundert' ("The Blind Century"), consisting of 'Amerika - das messianische Unheil' ("America: The Messianic Disaster"), which appeared in 1979, and 'Europa - Die verlorene Weltmitte' ("Europe: The Lost World Center"), published in 1984. 'Meine Anmerkungen zu Deutschland: Der Anglo-amerikanische Kreuzzugsgedanke im 20. Jahrhundert' ("My Thoughts on Germany: The Anglo-American Crusade Mentality in the 20th Century") appeared posthumously in 1990. H.'s English-language study, 'The Myth of the ‘New History', (1965 and 1985), earned praise. H.'s lecture at the "IHR's Sixth Conference" in 1985, "Plato's Dialectic v. Hegel and Marx," appeared in the spring 1986 issue of 'The Journal of Historical Review'. The Ninth IHR Conference, 1989, was dedicated to his memory.

During his final years H. lived with his wife in Menlo Park, northern California. He died there of a heart attack on August 7, 1988.

Literatur im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek von und über / Writings in the catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek of and about: David Hoggan 
* Der unnötige Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, c 2000, Vom Autor autoris. Erstausg., 4., durchges. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig und Frankfurt
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1997, 15. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* [The blind century <dt.>] : Das blinde Jahrhundert / Teil 1. Amerika, das messianische Unheil, 1992, 2. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig und Frankfurt
* 4 Der unnötige Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1992, 3. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig und Frankfurt
* Meine Anmerkungen zu Deutschland - Tübingen : Grabert, 1990, Vom Verf. autorisierte Erstausg. Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* [The blind century <dt.>] : Das blinde Jahrhundert / Teil 2. Europa - die verlorene Weltmitte, 1984 Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* [The blind century <dt.>] : Das blinde Jahrhundert / Teil 1. Amerika, das messianische Unheil, 1979 Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1977, Vom Verf. autoris. Erstausg., 11. Aufl. Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der unnötige Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1977, Von d. Verf. autoris. Erstausg., 2. Aufl. Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der unnötige Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1974, Von d. Verf. autoris. Erstausg. 
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Grabert, 1974, Vom Verf. autoris. Erstausg. 9. Aufl. Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Verl. der Deutschen Hochschullehrer-Zeitung, 1966, 7. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der amerikanische Geschichtsforscher Prof[essor] David L. Hoggan widerlegt Kriegsschuldlüge, Kraut, Alfred. - München : Dt. Klub München 1963, 1964 Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Verl. d. Dt. Hochschullehrer-Zeitung, 1964, Vom Verf. autoris. Ausg. Nach d. Ms. aus d. Engl. übers. von M. E. Narjes u. Herbert Grabert. K5tn-Zeichn. von Konrad Gulde. 6. Aufl. Vorhanden in Frankfurt
* David L. Hoggan und die Dokumente, Graml, Hermann. - [Wiesbaden] : Hessische Landeszentrale f. politische Bildung, 1963 Vorhanden in Leipzig
* Frankreichs Widerstand gegen den Zweiten Weltkrieg - Tübingen : Verl. d. Dt. Hochschullehrer-Zeitung, 1963, Vom Verf. autoris. Erstausg., nach d. Ms. aus d. Engl. übers. vom Institut f. Dt. Nachkriegsgeschichte in Tübingen Vorhanden in Leipzig und Frankfurt
* Der erzwungene Krieg - Tübingen : Verl. d. Dt. Hochschullehrer-Zeitung, 1963, Vom Verf. autoris. Ausg. Nach. d. Ms. aus d. Engl. übers. vom Institut f. Dt. Nachkriegsgeschichte, Tübingen. Ktn-Zeichn. von Konrad Gulde. 4. Aufl. Vorhanden in Leipzig und Frankfurt

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