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Thus far, Stern and its publisher, Gruner & Jahr, have emerged in the testimony as all-too-willing victims of the scam. Testimony has established that normal journalistic safeguards were disregarded shortly after Heidemann told his immediate editor in 1981 that he was on the trail of 27 volumes of the Nazi Fuhrer's diaries, written between 1932 and 1945. The diaries, Heidemann said, were rescued by farmers after a plane carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia...
...Christians." While Western Protestants still express embarrassment over Luther's anti-Jewish rantings or his skepticism about political clergy, Communist East Germany has turned him into a secular saint because of his influence on German culture. Party Boss Erich Honecker, head of the regime's Luther-jahr committee, is willing to downplay Luther's antirevolutionary ideas, using the giant figure to bolster national pride...
...investigating the diaries fiasco. Others sought only to place the embarrassment behind them. Many called for the resignation of Henri Nannen, 69, who has been Stern's publisher since the magazine was founded in 1948. Others hinted that blame extends high into Stern's parent corporation, Gruner & Jahr, and even into the holding company, Bertelsmann AG, a publishing conglomerate (1982 sales: $2.4 billion) that includes Bantam Books...
...copy) all right, but it was also depressing. Too many images of death, disease and disaster. "Pictures of animals being slaughtered," she shudders. No dream houses on fantasy islands. All that is about to change. After two years and about $30 million in losses, the German publishers Gruner & Jahr have just peddled the monthly Geo (circ. 256,000) to Los Angeles-based Knapp Communications, which publishes Architectural Digest and Bon Appétit. Geo's new editor in chief: none other than Rense. Says she: "The magazine will have no more news, no more ecology, no more people lying...
...with loud optimism about the American reader and the American dollar, German publishers Gruner & Jahr introduced Geo magazine, a pricey ($4 per issue), richly produced journal aimed at luring young, up-scale readers away from National Geographic (circ. 10 million). Instead, Geo's diffuse, often pretentious photojournalistic essays drove many readers away; circulation reached only 256,000, short of the planned 300,000. A promotion campaign dubbing it The Earth Diary seemed a futile echo of the '60s. Last week, after losing about $30 million-plus three publishers and three managing editors-Gruner & Jahr sold their ad-starved...