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...great moments, there are just as many disappointing ones. The cheap shots at trendy people and issues are just plain annoying--sure. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are nightmarish, but do they belong in the same litany of the horrifying as Vietnam and Hitler's diaries? Much of the material is tired and overdone--comments like "and they wanted us to grow up to like the characters on situation comedies," and "I just hated the downward mobility of the hippies" are just a little too convenient...
...cache of purported Hitler diaries comes to light
When Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, he left behind few written documents about either his public or private life. The gap may now be filled. The weekly West German magazine Stern has announced that it obtained 62 volumes of personal diaries that the Führer had written by hand during his dozen years in power. The new documents could prove immensely valuable to historians studying Hitler's personality and actions...
Stern (circ. 1.87 million) this week will publish the first of numerous installments from the black leather-bound diaries, which date from June 1932, seven months before Hitler became Germany's Chancellor, to mid-April 1945, just two weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...
...Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz disagrees with Dawidowicz's inclination to absolve McCloy. He said that McCloy played a part in the decision, although it may have been small. "When you are studying war criminals [as Dawidowicz does] McCloy's role is minor. Compared to Hitler his role is minor...