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...this was a prelude to a weekend of climactic demonstrations. On Saturday some 700,000 West Germans massed in four cities-Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart and West Berlin-in an act of dissent they hoped would mark a turning point in their nation's history. On that same day in London, upwards of 200,000 Britons marched through the streets to a rally in Hyde Park. In Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Dublin, Helsinki, Brussels and Madrid, as well as in dozens of towns and cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, the worldwide peace movement stretched its legs and shouted...
...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...