Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticism of Stern's claims rose rather than abated. Trevor-Roper developed second thoughts. "I must have misunderstood," he said. "The link between the airplane and the archive is not absolutely established." Finally, he added: "I am now convinced that some documents in that collection were forgeries...
Alarmed editorial employees of the magazine gathered in Stern's modern concrete office building in Hamburg. They grilled their top executives about the source of the diaries during a tease two-hour meeeting. "First we publish, then we authenticate!" protested one angry journalist. The magazine's editorial board relented slightly, ordering that some of the volumes be sent to experts at WestGermany's Federal Archives in Coblenz...
...Stern's Editor in Chief Peter Koch refused to retreat. He flew to New York, carrying the first and last volumes in the series. He displayed them on national TV, defending them as genuine. Koch airily told American reporters: "I expected the uproar and expected that many incompetent people would denounce the diaries as fakes. This is because every other publishing house will envy our story and every historian will envy...
...Stern's presses rolled on with the first installment of the diaries, a segment ostensibly showing that Hitler had approved the celebrated solo flight of his trusted deputy Rudolf Hess to England as war raged in 1941. Next day, Stern's great coup was blitzed...
...press conference immediately afterward in Coblenz, Luis-Ferdinand Werner, who had supervised chemical analysis on the paper, cover, bindings, labels and glue used in three of the seven volumes submitted by Stern, said flatly that the diaries were "obvious fakes." Beside him, Federal Archives President Hans Booms, who characterized the forgeries as "grotesque" and "superficial," contended that much of the contents had been plagiarized from a book, Hitler's Speeches and Proclamations 1932-45, written in 1962 by a former Nazi Federal Archivist, Max Domarus. Booms dated the production of the forgeries as about...