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...speeding car to another. What made Stern's investigation so notable, however, was that the magazine exposed its own management's gullibility in what it labeled "the biggest flop of German press history": the purchase, for $3.8 million, and publication of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler...
...cover headlines read, THE FORGERY: KONRAD KUJAU, THE MAN WHO DELIVERED "HITLER'S DIARIES." The menacing photo was of Kujau, 44, an East German emigre and a Stuttgart-based dealer in documents and military memorabilia who sold the diaries to Stern and is suspected of having forged them. The story of his bizarre behavior, and of the Keystone Kops-style thriller that he enacted with the magazine's go-between, Reporter Gerd Heidemann, may have left readers asking how Heidemann, and his free-spending Stern supervisors, could have been fooled by anyone so preposterous. Kujau, who since...
When he met Heidemann, 51, Kujau claimed to have access to 27 Hitler diaries for sale at 80,000 marks ($33,000) each; after Heidemann and Stern proved enthusiastic, Kujau upped his claim to 69 diaries and the price to 200,000 marks. To the delight of Heidemann, a lover of melodramatic quests, three batches of diaries were delivered to him inside East Germany. While driving on a highway leading to West Berlin, Heidemann would, according to his story, toss a package of marks worth more than $100,000 into a passing car; someone in that car would then throw...
Stern's pell-mell pursuit of the Hitler "scoop" was not resoundingly justified at newsstands. The first diaries issue, April 25, though promoted as containing some of the most titillating items, sold 2 million copies, about 300,000 more than usual...
Moravia's ostensible subject is suicide. His 27-year-old Italian hero, Lucio, is headed for Capri on holiday in 1934, the fateful year that was Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly...