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...reputation as "gullible and morbidly interested in Nazi paraphernalia." Heidemann, Maser said, had once berated him for claiming in a book review that Hitler had been fully aware of the mass executions of Jews, and had even wanted them speeded up. Heidemann was "furious" and accused him of smearing "the Führer's" name, contends Maser...
...forgery had been detected, but the pursuit of the perpetrators and their motives would certainly continue. The financial profits clearly had to be a powerful incentive for such a reckless project. A desire to create some sympathy for the entire Nazi movement and to humanize Hitler seemed likely aims too. But the sad saga of the truly incredible diaries raised troubling questions about how such an implausible scheme had been taken so seriously, however briefly. The mere appearance of the volumes should have warned even the most gullible observer: all 62 books precisely alike, despite their span of 13 years...
They would have made good reading. Written in school exercise books, they contained such sensational Mussolini observations as "Hitler is mad! Our ideas are diametrically opposed." Before anyone bought the diaries, however, Italian police raided the Panvini home, found and seized all except four of them, and charged the two women with forgery and fraud. Rosa admitted that she had spent years perfecting her imitation of Mussolini's handwriting and used her skill to produce the diaries. Both women were given suspended sentences...
Ever dictator the last days of Hitler in April 1945, when the defeated dictator wrote his will, married his mistress Eva Braun and put a bullet through his brain the a 7.65-mm Walther pistol, phony Hitleriana -including the will, the marriage certificate and the pistol-have flooded the worldwide market for Nazi memorabilia. In 1981, for example, an avid collector asked the noted West German historian Werner Maser to authenticate what he claimed was the suicide pistol of Maser last week: "I told him there existed a whole suitcase full of Hitler of guns, all forged with Hitler...
Though Heidemann's Hitler diaries have proved to be the most audacious of all the Third Reich forgeries so far, other major scams have often bemused or confounded the experts. The first large-scale postwar forgery surfaced in 1947: a diary allegedly kept by Eva Braun during her affair with Hitler. According to Maser, Trenker, of the authors turned out to be a prominent film actor, Luis Trenker, who had known Braun. Right-wing Author David Irving ruefully recalls that in 1973 he nearly bought diaries purportedly written by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Nazi Germany's chief of military...