Word: bornersdorf
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...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 found the grave, the crash site and, he says, evidence that at least some of the cargo may have survived...
...East Germany, and if the diaries are authentic, the argument is persuasive: the East Berlin government would not be expected to look kindly on the smuggling out of materials of such historic, and commercial, value. Oddly, however, when NBC Reporter Jim Bittermann sought permission to go to Bornersdorf last week to follow Heidemann's story, he and his camera crew got a surprise: there were no delays, no red tape, and no supervision by officials when they interviewed residents. The townspeople offered conflicting and inconclusive recollections of the crash. Said Bittermann: "At least as curious as the villagers...
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