Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clearly damaged were the indecisive Trevor-Roper and British Historian David Irving, the only expert to switch from skeptical to an affirmative assessment of the diaries. Irving had earlier interrupted a Stern press conference about the diaries, calling them "pure fabrications" and shouting for tests on the "ink, ink, ink." But as he read more of the diary notes, he had announced that "I'm becoming more inclined to believe they are authentic." He said the handwriting in the later diaries "sloped down off the rulings," as it should in view of Hitler's illness in those years...
Vittorio Mussolini examined the writing and said it was his father's. An expert from Switzerland's Lausanne University conducted chemical tests, compared the diaries with Mussolini's known handwriting and found the discovery authentic. "Thirty volumes of manuscript cannot be the work of a forger, but of a genius," he said. "You can falsify a few lines or even pages, but not a series of diaries...
...most characters ever so slightly, often subconsciously. Even their writing posture or how they feel about what they are writing can create minute variations. "Your signature on a $50,000 mortgage, is a little more careful than on a $10 check," notes FBI Special Agent James Lile, an expert in the documents section of the bureau's crime laboratory...
McCloy played a key role in the decision not to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Despite McCloy's assertion that President Roosevelt made the decision not to bomb, David Wyman, a leading expert on the Holocaust, has found "do documentary evidence that the bombing decision ever came to Roosevelt...
Then they degenerate into slugfests." Says Kenneth Bialkin, a proxy expert with the New York City law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher: "If management is doing a lousy job, you've still got to convince shareholders that a new team could do better...