Word: hitlerized
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Historians and Hitler biographers quickly assailed the diaries as unbelievable. Hitler never liked to keep his own notes, they said. He dictated his thoughts to secretaries. The testimony of aides and servants revealed no knowledge that he kept a diary and indicated that his daily schedule left precious little time for private jottings. His right hand trembled from progressively acute palsy and, after a 1944 assassination attempt, his arm was at least temporarily incapacitated by bomb wounds...
Stern stuck stubbornly to its story. The magazine's claims drew heavily on the reputation of Cambridge Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (The Last Days of Hitler), a director of the Times Newspapers Ltd. He examined some of the books in a Swiss bank and wrote...
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...
West Germany's Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann announced in a terse statement that "the Federal Archive is convinced that documents they were given did not come from Hitler's hand, but were produced in the postwar period...
...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...