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...first Koch seemed to have a group of estimable allies: the London Sunday Times, whose parent News Corporation bought (for an estimated $400,000) publication rights to the diaries within much of the British Commonwealth; eminent historians including Hugh Trevor-Roper, a Hitler scholar and Times director, who said he was "satisfied that the documents are authentic"; and Newsweek, which voiced some skepticism but took the find seriously enough to report it in a 13-page cover story...
...began, however, Stern's claim of authenticity for the diaries was questioned by historians and derided by the press, most notably in Britain. The London Standard said that it had acquired "exclusive rights to the diaries of Genghis Khan," while the Daily Mirror gibed, "The secret diaries of Hitler's secret lover, Eva Braun, have been found in a secret compartment of her secret handbag." Joshed the New York Times in a gently doubting editorial: "We would not be a bit surprised to pass a bookstand one day soon and see something entitled Not the Hitler Diaries, perhaps...
...Stern's angry charge that Newsweek, after withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will regret what they...
...labeled the diaries "pure fabrications" and charged that the diaries' ink had not been subjected to chemical tests. As photographers jostled each other to get pictures of Irving, who started his own miniconference, Stern security aides led him away while he shouted, "Ink! Ink! Ink!" Irving, a Hitler biographer with professed "ultrarightist" political views, conceded he had been hired as a consultant by another publication, Bild am Sonntag (circ. 2.6 million...
...though he had tentatively judged the documents to be real, called on Stern to bring in handwriting analysts and teams of scholars to check the diaries page by page. Cambridge Don Trevor-Roper, who was sent to Berlin by the British government in 1945 to verify the circumstances of Hitler's death and who wrote the definitive account of the Führer's final days, retreated, more or less gracefully, from his early approval. He explained that his endorsement was based substantially upon the sheer mass of the material, including letters, personal papers, and paintings and drawings...