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Those Hitler documents found in Florida: Yellow Flags
READ
your account of the South Florida find
of Hitler documents with great
interest. Yellow and Orange flags (this is the way we issue
warnings these days) went up as I read the background story
you were given regarding the "leading lady," 90-year-old,
"Kathe."
I've never known such an old lady to be afraid of anything, particularly an old German lady; and especially, one who still drives a car. Have not known one who chooses black as a color for hair dye, either. Yellow Flag.
THE
name-change part of the story sounds suspicious, too. One
must consider the old man, formerly an "SS man ... close to
Hitler and a war criminal," found his name safe enough to
live and function in Florida for many years. It's only after
his death that Kathe acts to change it, and it was not she
who was the war criminal. Another Yellow Flag.
THE
presentation of a large variety of stuff -- cards, letters,
speeches, paintings (oil, no less), bureaucratic documents;
etc., reminds one of the Konrad
Kujau approach to "snowing" his victims. This
fraudster knew that the more stuff he served up, the more
people, even experts, would be inclined to believe it
genuine. This gets a Yellow Flag, as well.
Here
comes an Orange Flag. There is described an eighty-page
speech in Hitler's handwriting. From all accounts I've ever
read, Hitler wrote only outlines of his speeches and
could speak for hours from a couple of pages containing the
barest number of prompting words and phrases. He would not
have read an eighty-page speech, as he was Hitler, not
ex-President Ford. To state the least, he usually had
the subject matter nailed pretty good and had covered it
many times before. (Werner Maser's Hitler's Letters and
Notes, contains some very fine facsimiles of the
outlining method used). Here an Orange Flag.
MR IRVING, you state: "I have never seen so much Hitler handwriting in my life before." This does seem to be an elaborate thread running through the collection, something a forger would enjoy doing once having mastered Hitler's handwriting. I'm reminded again of Kujau and his enjoyment in granting his prison guards requests for Hitler's "autograph."
You are indeed THE expert, having been the one to expose the "Hitler's Diary" caper. But, as you indicated, the collection should undergo forensic analysis of paper, ink and other key indicators in order to help prove authenticity. Look forward to seeing them posted on your site.
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David Irving replies:
Indeed, the name Konrad Kujau kept flashing through my kind. Unfortunately my two volumes of Max Domarus's Hitlers Reden und Proklamationen were seized along with everything else in May 2002, but they were Kujau's forging source, and he slavishly copied items from those two volumes in Hitler's handwriting, including the minor errors in Domarus, which was the giveaway. This particular mine, if they are forgeries, has however been salted with a number of clearly genuine items.
Yes, a 90 year old lady driving a car: that point did not strike me; maybe her daughter or son drove it?
RADICAL'S DIARY reports on an extraordinary find of Hitler documents in South Florida
David Irving