Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitler keep a diary? (The very thought's unnerving.) Could Stern be making fools of us? (And where is Clifford Irving...
...forgeries; the reporter who acquired the 62 volumes for the magazine was dismissed and sued for fraud; the Nazi memento dealer who allegedly supplied the diaries and who was suspected of fabricating them surrendered to police in Hamburg. After devoting 80 pages in two previous issues to Hitler, Stern offered a one-page apology to readers. On the cover of the magazine was a cherubic infant. Yet if the picture subliminally hinted at a rebirth of the magazine's self-respect, the image was premature...
...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 and the correct number of Hitler's pistol permit." The "collector" was Stern Reporter Gerd Heidemann...
...offered Irving 800 photostats of Nazi documents, including parts of a diary supposedly kept by Hitler and a letter from Rudolf Hess to Hitler about his projected 1941 flight to Scotland. Irving brought 400 pages to Britain, but after scrutinizing them pronounced them forgeries. Irving now believes that the Stern 1930s and those he studied last year came from the same source, though he had earlier considered the Stern material to be authentic...
...death of the very old. France is the scene of other tales, just as it has been the setting for much of Fisher's own adult life. The collection's finest piece, The Oldest Man, is about an American woman's visit to a stern, mountainous region called the Massif Central, where a centenarian and his septuagenarian son have their ancestral home. As always, the author's observations of local landscape, weather, architecture and gastronomical specialties (in this case, Roquefort) are as keen and winning as her insights into her characters. Most engaging...