Word: bormann
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...imagination. "Must not forget to get tickets for the Olympic Games for Eva Braun," read one 1936 entry. "On my feet all day long," complained the Fuhrer in another. One of the final notations, in April 1945, lapses into an almost girlish "Dear Diary" style: "Must close now. Bormann wants all my documents to be sent away...
DIED. Reidar Sognnaes, 72, a pioneer of forensic dentistry, the founding dean of UCLA's school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...
...proved to himself that they were genuine. In a video documentary that Stern showed at its press conference, Heidemann made a strange error: he said he went to South America at the beginning of the 1980s, among other reasons, to look for Hitler's former secretary Martin Bormann. But Bormann had been declared dead in 1973 after his remains were found in West Berlin and identified partly through reporting by Heidemann's former Stern colleague Jochen von Lang. Heidemann was unavailable to explain the apparent discrepancy; he has declined all requests for interviews. Most troubling to fellow journalists...
...another point, the diarist related how Storm Trooper Chief Ernest Roehm "lied to me and deceived me," and then displayed his disgust with all his generals by commenting, "I absolutely need a new military command." Only one adviser seems to have earned his respect: Personal Secretary Martin Bormann. "This man Bormann has become indispensable to me," Hitler wrote on March 27, 1945. "If I had five Bormanns, I would not be sitting here...
That bitter game has long fascinated George Steiner, 52, polymathic professor of literature and author of brilliant essays ranging from Homer to Schoenberg and Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy...