Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kurtz, who started her own New York-based consulting firm in 1973, now advises an estimated 200 companies. Business has been particularly brisk since the Hitler-diary hoax started a new interest in handwriting analysis. But some maintain that graphology is sometimes no more reliable than the Führer's scribblings. Says Theodore Hurst, a partner in the Chicago consulting firm of Worthington, Hurst & Associates: "It's a $10 idea made into a $100 product...
...spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...forged the diaries. He called the charge "absurd," adding: "I can neither read the Gothic handwriting [used by Hitler] nor write it." That was an odd claim for one who deals in documents of the Nazi period. Fischer insisted that the volumes actually were written by the Führer...
...officials who had declared the books fraudulent were really trying to "suppress the truth." She and her husband have friends among former Nazi officers. When they were married, two former Nazi generals served as official witnesses. "It would have been a joy to tell the reality about the Führer," she said...
Maser and other specialists believe that a network of fanatic German Nazis in Latin America have conspired to spread forged documents designed to white wash their Führer and revive interest in the Nazi period. According to Maser, there is close cooperation between the Nazis in Latin America and forgers in Communist East Germany who are producing Hitler-era material that is intended to create bad feelings among the NATO partners while it brings in much needed dollars and other hard currency...