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...Hitler keep a diary? (The very thought's unnerving.) Could Stern be making fools of us? (And where is Clifford Irving...
Condemnation and a new suspect in the Hitler diary fraud
Doubts about authenticity are over, but debate 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...
Journalistic and ethical standards at Stern and other publications that ballyhooed the Hitler diaries were denounced with new force last week on both sides of the Atlantic, perhaps nowhere more fiercely than within Stern itself. Much of the 210-member editorial staff was obsessed with investigating the diaries fiasco. Others sought only to place the embarrassment behind them. Many called for the resignation of Henri Nannen, 69, who has been Stern's publisher since the magazine was founded in 1948. Others hinted that blame extends high into Stern's parent corporation, Gruner & Jahr, and even into the holding...
Criticism also hit, with less force, at publications that obtained rights to the diaries, including the London Sunday Times and the magazines Paris Match in France and Panorama in Italy, or that proclaimed the volumes a historic find, as Newsweek did in a May 2 cover story ("Hitler's Secret Diaries...