Word: stuttgart
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...support of uneasy Europeans, especially in West Germany. The first nine of a planned force of 108 Pershing II missiles are to be deployed in West Germany on a still undisclosed date in December. Peace groups have scheduled massive demonstrations against the deployment for Oct. 22 in Hamburg, Bonn, Stuttgart and West Berlin...
...cover headlines read, THE FORGERY: KONRAD KUJAU, THE MAN WHO DELIVERED "HITLER'S DIARIES." The menacing photo was of Kujau, 44, an East German emigre and a Stuttgart-based dealer in documents and military memorabilia who sold the diaries to Stern and is suspected of having forged them. The story of his bizarre behavior, and of the Keystone Kops-style thriller that he enacted with the magazine's go-between, Reporter Gerd Heidemann, may have left readers asking how Heidemann, and his free-spending Stern supervisors, could have been fooled by anyone so preposterous. Kujau, who since...
...documents dealer and calligrapher and an emigre from East Germany, who also used the alias Konrad Kujau. Heidemann said that over a period of two years he exchanged suitcases of cash totaling 9 million marks ($3.7 million) for packets of volumes. When reporters went to check on Fischer, his Stuttgart office and suburban home were apparently abandoned...
Also vindicated were Marie Bernard and Hitler Historian Werner Maser, both of whom looked at diary photocopies and dismissed them as not being in Hitler's hand. Hitler Biographer Joachim Fest and Stuttgart University Historian Eberhard Jäckel both spotted the alleged diaries as probably part of a cache of bogus Hitler materials they had been offered four years...
...publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, says, "A not insignificant part of what I was shown was convincing, but doubt won out." Irving said he had seen what he calls a forged letter, supposedly written to Hitler by his Deputy Chancellor Rudolf Hess. Professor Eberhard Jäckel of Stuttgart University lost interest in the materials he was shown when a verse, supposedly written in Hitler's own hand in 1916, turned out to have been authored by Nazi Poet Herybert Menzel...