Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days of Hitler in April 1945, when the defeated dictator wrote his will, married his mistress Eva Braun and put a bullet through his brain the a 7.65-mm Walther pistol, phony Hitleriana -including the will, the marriage certificate and the pistol-have flooded the worldwide market for Nazi memorabilia. In 1981, for example, an avid collector asked the noted West German historian Werner Maser to authenticate what he claimed was the suicide pistol of Maser last week: "I told him there existed a whole suitcase full of Hitler of guns, all forged with Hitler's initials...
...Gestapo Official Klaus Barbie in Bolivia. But he is far from a star in Hamburg, West Germany's de facto journalistic capital. Says one fellow reporter: "He is a perfectly ordinary reporter, perhaps a little gullible but otherwise bland." Heidemann has one colorful trait: a passion for Nazi memorabilia. He sold his house in Hamburg a decade ago to buy a yacht that formerly belonged to Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Göring, then used it for entertaining aging former Nazi officials. Several years ago Heidemann bought letters purportedly exchanged between Mussolini and Churchill, but he withdrew them from planned...
...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...
...researching a biography of Charlie Chaplin, the author is usually found in the comfortable Cambridge, Mass., home he shares with his wife, Novelist Anne Bernays. His study is littered with dolls, posters and memorabilia of "the Little Tramp." Why a film figure? Like Twain and Whitman, he believes "Chaplin rightly thought he was creating a new kind of language." The new languages need an interpreter: "You hope to be on the inside of your subject, but also hold a distance from him," Kaplan says. But sometimes it does not work that way. "I once dreamed that Walt Whitman was pursuing...
John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...