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...reap wealth while recasting history. The editors of the West German photo-weekly Stern had on April 22 dramatically announced the astounding discovery of 62 volumes of Adolf Hitler's alleged long-secret diaries. Bound in black imitation-leather covers, the magazine-size books purported to chronicle the Nazi F??hrer's years from 1932 to 1945. Hailed by Stern as "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period," the diaries were offered to other publications for serialization at up to $3 million. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the parent company of London's Sunday Times, agreed...
...half a million, for instance, whereas more reliable non-Domarus reports had estimated 130,000. Both the diaries and Domarus had General Franz Ritter Von Epp congratulating Hitler in 1937 on his 50th anniversary in army service, when the dictator was only 48 years old; the F??hrer had actually praised Von Epp for his 50 years in the Army. Said Booms sarcastically about the Hitler portrayed in the diaries: "You get the impression of very limited understanding from a person who had an interest in making entries only when Domarus...
...gullible and morbidly interested in Nazi paraphernalia." Heidemann, Maser said, had once berated him for claiming in a book review that Hitler had been fully aware of the mass executions of Jews, and had even wanted them speeded up. Heidemann was "furious" and accused him of smearing "the F??hrer's" name, contends Maser...
...German officials who had declared the books fraudulent were really trying to "suppress the truth." She and her husband have friends among former Nazi officers. When they were married, two former Nazi generals served as official witnesses. "It would have been a joy to tell the reality about the F??hrer," she said...
...points the emphasis was on style, on the inherent artificiality of art, its inability to be confused with nature, and its newly declared aim, in F??néon's words, of "decorating a rigid, rectangular surface." Others, like Maurice Denis, wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray...