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...wealth while recasting history. The editors of the West German photo-weekly Stern had on April 22 dramatically announced the astounding discovery of 62 volumes of Adolf Hitler's alleged long-secret diaries. Bound in black imitation-leather covers, the magazine-size books purported to chronicle the Nazi Führer's years from 1932 to 1945. Hailed by Stern as "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period," the diaries were offered to other publications for serialization at up to $3 million. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the parent company of London's Sunday Times, agreed...
...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 said to be by Hitler's own hand. Supporting that evidence...
...compresses; yet the diaries include an entry apparently written that day. Historian Irving, in his new translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from Oct. 30,1944, "The Führer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with Irving's disbelief. Said Toland: "Witnesses refer to 'Hitler's right hand, which is useless...
...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 Baur, the Führer was enraged when he learned of the crash: "That was to be my testimony for posterity." Heidemann, by routine checking on the grave sites of former military aides, learned that the pilot was buried in Bornersdorf, near Dresden, in what is now East Germany. There Heidemann found the grave...
...back room in the Swiss bank and turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." Trevor-Roper says that notes pasted on many of the diaries' covers state that they were the personal property of the Führer and that in the event of his death, they were to be given to Julius Schaub, his longtime adjutant and friend, and passed by him to Hitler's sister Paula...