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...There is no known mention of Hitler's ever keeping a diary. His closest aides reported many times that he rarely wrote anything himself; indeed he dictated most personal letters. Said James O'Donnell, author of The Bunker, an account of Hitler's final days: "It is beyond possibility that Hitler would have kept diaries without any of his secretaries, valets and military assistants knowing about...
...some graphology experts, the penmanship in sample diary pages that were made available seems to lack the bold sweep of Hitler's hand and to understate some of his characteristic quirks, like curling the end of each line down and to the right (see box). Said Charles Hamilton, a noted New York City autograph dealer and author of a forthcoming book called Autographs of the Third Reich: "The genuine writing is full of power and force. In the diary samples that I saw, all the letters shake, as though they were drawn, not written...
...Hitler suffered from a progressive and intermittently acute palsy of both hands, and after 1943 was observed writing only in pencil, not ink as in the diaries. Moreover, he was injured in a July 20, 1944, bombing attempt on his life, and both of his forearms were swollen and swathed in bandages or compresses; yet the diaries include an entry apparently written that day. Historian Irving, in his new translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from...
...documents seem too humble and haphazard for Hitler: the bindings vary, only one of the covers is embossed with the gold letters AH, and most are bound in black imitation leather. Scoffs Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant: "Imitation leather? For Hitler there was real leather or nothing...
...addition, three historians claimed last week that they had been shown, months or years ago, apparently spurious Hitler-related items that they now contend came from Stern's supposedly top-secret discovery. Joachim Fest, writer of book and film biographies of Hitler and a co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, says, "A not insignificant part of what I was shown was convincing, but doubt won out." Irving said he had seen what he calls a forged letter, supposedly written to Hitler by his Deputy Chancellor Rudolf Hess. Professor Eberhard Jäckel of Stuttgart University lost interest...