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...took off for Salzburg. Nine made the trip safely; the tenth, flying in radio silence for security reasons, crashed. At least two people who were on the scene believe that the downed plane carried Hitler's personal papers. According to the Nazi leader's personal pilot, Hans Baur, the Führer was enraged when he learned of the crash: "That was to be my testimony for posterity." Heidemann, by routine checking on the grave sites of former military aides, learned that the pilot was buried in Bornersdorf, near Dresden, in what is now East Germany. There Heidemann...
Trevor-Roper explains that he gave particular weight to a remark Hitler had made to Hans Baur, his personal pilot, who has written that Hitler became furious when he learned that the flight had crashed. "In that plane were all my private archives, what I had intended as a testimony for posterity!" Hitler shouted. "It is a catastrophe...
...promoting new ones. A revisionist ecstasy is in the air, and one of the more important artists to benefit from it (if posthumously) is Sculptor Elie Nadelman. A definitive retrospective of some 150 sculptures and drawings opened last week at the Whitney Museum, organized by Art Historian John Baur, director of the Whitney until his retirement last year...
...characteristically understated and laconic fashion, the Scots about five years ago began to feel a new sense of confidence. "The Nationalists," says Edinburgh Journalist Chris Baur, "began meeting all over the country, gathering in groups of 15 or 20, just talking about policy and the issues and enjoying themselves." North Sea oil, with its promise of doubling the country's revenues from whisky (some $250 million annually in sales to the U.S. alone), ships, foodstuffs and tartan knits, became the Nationalists' crunching argument. With annual profits of $1.5 billion expected to flow in from the North...
...since the Whitney's efforts to reflect black American art have been demonstrably earnest. Says Dealer Reese Palley, who shows both Williams and Johnson: "The Whitney is in a totally unresolvable situation in which there can be no heroes. As far as I am concerned, the Whitney and Baur have been perfectly proper in all their approaches to the black community, and did everything in their power to make the show a success...