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...summer of 1962 about the Soviet buildup in Cuba, Kennedy was only half listening, although he ordered U-2 surveillance that discovered the offensive missiles in October. But all along, Kennedy, like others, believed if trouble came with the Soviet Union it would be in a traditional place like Berlin with traditional air and land confrontations. "If we solve the Berlin problem without war," Kennedy told his aide Ted Sorensen one September night, "Cuba will look pretty small. And if there is a war, Cuba won't matter much either." But Cuba turned out to be the place...
...been invited to the conference to authenticate the diaries. Weinberg, though he had tentatively judged the documents to be real, called on Stern to bring in handwriting analysts and teams of scholars to check the diaries page by page. Cambridge Don Trevor-Roper, who was sent to Berlin by the British government in 1945 to verify the circumstances of Hitler's death and who wrote the definitive account of the Führer's final days, retreated, more or less gracefully, from his early approval. He explained that his endorsement was based substantially upon the sheer mass...
Heidemann's tale began on the morning of April 21,1945, at a Schonwalde airstrip, seven miles from Hitler's bunker in Berlin. After a frenzied scene of chaos that delayed top-priority military flights, ten airplanes carrying staff members and cargo from Hitler's last command post 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...
When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, he left behind few written documents about either his public or private life. The gap may now be filled. The weekly West German magazine Stern has announced that it obtained 62 volumes of personal diaries that the Führer had written by hand during his dozen years in power. The new documents could prove immensely valuable to historians studying Hitler's personality and actions...
...hours every spring watching what may be the dullest show on earth-the Oscars? But, then, they may merely like puzzles, such as this year's: Why were the musical numbers so bad? Why was the multiuntalented Peter Allen chosen to sing and dance a medley of Irving Berlin songs, when he can do neither? Or, more to the point, why was Gandhi, good as it is, chosen Best Picture over E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, the most popular movie of the year and the highest grosser (more than $350 million) of all time...