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Stern Editor Koch, who flew to the U.S. to defend the Hitler diaries' authenticity, waved aside all objections to what he called "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period." But he admitted that his magazine had relied for verification almost entirely on the assertions of Reporter Gerd Heidemann, 51, a 31-year veteran of Stern who claims he uncovered the diaries after a four-year search through East and West Germany, Spain and South America...
Heidemann's tale began on the morning of April 21,1945, at a Schonwalde airstrip, seven miles from Hitler's bunker in Berlin. After a frenzied scene of chaos that delayed top-priority military flights, ten airplanes carrying staff members and cargo from Hitler's last command post took off for Salzburg. Nine made the trip safely; the tenth, flying in radio silence for security reasons, crashed. At least two people who were on the scene believe that the downed plane carried Hitler's personal papers. According to the Nazi leader's personal pilot, Hans...
...harbored them and where, or how he proved to himself that they were genuine. In a video documentary that Stern showed at its press conference, Heidemann made a strange error: he said he went to South America at the beginning of the 1980s, among other reasons, to look for Hitler's former secretary Martin Bormann. But Bormann had been declared dead in 1973 after his remains were found in West Berlin and identified partly through reporting by Heidemann's former Stern colleague Jochen von Lang. Heidemann was unavailable to explain the apparent discrepancy; he has declined all requests...
...diaries are fraudulent, there is no shortage of theories about who produced them and why. Money would be motive enough. The market in Hitleriana is booming: an ordinary Hitler signature on a Wehrmacht officer's commission papers sells...
...most of those who postulated that the Hitler diaries are fake believe the motive would have been political. The most common theory, voiced by Jäckel and Historian Werner Maser: the diaries may have been produced in an alleged Nazi memorabilia "forgery factory" in Potsdam, East Germany, for cash and for advancement of Soviet political aims. The two major "revelations" in the first installment of the diaries published by Stern are that Hitler approved Deputy Chancellor Hess's 1941 trip to Britain to propose a treaty and that he let the British escape at Dunkirk in hopes...