Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Condemnation and a new suspect in the Hitler diary fraud...
...about how and why the faked Adolf Hitler diaries came to be published has grown ever more bitter. Two top editors have resigned from Stem, the West German photo weekly that purveyed the forgeries; the reporter who acquired the 62 volumes for the magazine was dismissed and sued for fraud; the Nazi memento dealer who allegedly supplied the diaries and who was suspected of fabricating them surrendered to police in Hamburg. After devoting 80 pages in two previous issues to Hitler, Stern offered a one-page apology to readers. On the cover of the magazine was a cherubic infant...
...Newsweek was raked by Columnist Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and by Ombudsman Robert McCloskey at Newsweek's sister publication, the Washington Post. Lewis said Newsweek had been either "gullible" or "shameless." He wrote: "The cover story raised the possibility of fraud. But it went on for pages about the historical significance of it all. And it said: 'Genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end.' It matters a lot." McCloskey argued: "The impression created [by Newsweek] with the aid of provocative newspaper and television advertising was that the entire story...
Heidemann denied allegations by Stern that he had "possibly enriched himself" through fraud. Said he: "I was hoodwinked." Nonetheless, he belatedly admitted that for his role the magazine had paid him 1.5 million marks...
...usually unspoken professional admiration between the masters of such analysis and the masters of the fabrications. In his revealing account, Great Forgers and Famous Fakes, Autograph Dealer Hamilton quotes a letter from Forger Arthur Sutton, whom Hamilton had helped to expose, causing Sutton to plead guilty to fraud. "I have always had the greatest respect for you," wrote Sutton, who crafted the signatures of famous figures from Sitting Bull to Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe. "I am glad I have been caught and can promise I will never forge any autographs ever again." Admitted Hamilton, in a public aside...