Robert Harris - Selling Hitler

Hoffmann and Campe, 48

Hoenecker, Erich, 25, 378

Horthy, Admiral, 180

Horthy telegram, 180, 181, 192, 193–4, 196, 202, 240, 249, 298

Huebner (handwriting expert), 195,196, 353–4

Hughes, Howard, 25, 197, 198

Hutchinson’s, 51, 53

Independent Newspapers (New Zealand), 264

Independent Radio News, 306

Institute of Contemporary History, Munich, 153, 174, 218, 348

International Creative Management (ICM), 231–2, 237, 303

Iquisabel, Dr, 176

Irving, Clifford, 197–8

Irving, David, 33, 229–31, 234, 239, 288, 337, 345, 348, 352, 360; Hitler’s War , 19, 187–9; search for Hitler’s letters, 36–7; sees Churchill–Mussolini correspondence, 81–3, 87; meets Priesack, 187, 189–91, 220–1; discovers existence of diaries, 212–18, 220–2; decides Priesack documents are forgeries, 222–3, 230; financial problems, 305–7, 336; denounces diaries as forgeries, 305–7, 311, 315; Stern press conference, 316, 320–3; press interviews, 327, 333–4; changes mind, 338–9, 344; forgery proved, 359; Hitler’s medical diaries, 385–6

Israeli secret service, 265, 274, 284

Izvestia , 42, 378

Jabusch, Helmut, 225

Jacobs, Eric, 288

Jaeckel, Eberhard, 118–21, 125, 135–6, 152–3, 235–6, 261, 272, 305, 321, 334–5, 352

Jahn, Peter, 233

Jakobovits, Immanuel, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, 3 30–1

James, Brian, 321

Jodl, General, 20, 44

John Paul II, Pope, 154

Josephson, Marvin, 231

Karnau, Hermann, 44

Die Katacombe , 74, 90, 99

‘Keepers of the Flame’, 70–1, 118

Keitel, Field Marshal, 44, 112

Kempka, Erich, 44, 70, 350

Kern, Xaver, 153

Kersten, Dr Felix, 48

Kirkpatrick, Jeanne, 25, 332

Kissinger, Henry, 210, 231

Klapper, Medard, 174–7, 213, 225, 227–9, 362, 380

Kleenau (auctioneers), 117

Klein, Dietrich, 372–4

Kleist, Field Marshal Ewald von, 180

Kleist document, 180, 192, 194, 196, 240, 249–50

Knightley, Phillip, 213–14, 288–91, 301, 302–3, 311–14

Koch, Peter, 154, 172, 200, 328, 345; relations with Heidemann, 89–90, 92, 100, 226; diaries concealed from, 100, 101–2; diaries shown to, 155–6; suspicions of Heidemann, 208; decision to speed up publication, 238–41; publicity campaign, 251, 255; learns of Heidemann’s payments, 254–5; Trevor-Roper asked to authenticate diaries, 23, 260; reassures Barbara Dickmann, 275; and the serialization rights, 275, 283, 287–8; Trevor-Roper quotations, 276–7; and the forensic tests, 299; and Trevor-Roper’s suspicions, 317, 318; Stern press conference, 321–4; press interviews, 333–4, 335, 339, 350; bitterness about Newsweek , 334–5; second Hitler issue, 352; forgery proved, 353; dismissal, 366; aftermath of the affair, 385

Kohl, Helmut, 356

Koller, General, 46

Konrad, Franz, 36–8

Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’), 319

Krosigk, Schwerin von, 46

Krueger, Else, 73

Kubik, Milan, 271, 272, 275

Kubizek, August, 98, 99, 246, 307

Kuby, Erich, 75–6, 80–1, 83

Kuehsel, Peter, 102–3, 145–6, 166, 337

Kuhn, Axel, 135

Kujau, Konrad (alias Dr Fischer): Heidemann tracks down, 90, 97–8, 103–4, 127–9, 133–4; background, 105–11; forgeries, 107, 111–14, 120–1; collection of Nazi memorabilia, 109–11, 204; sells forgeries to Stiefel, 115–16; forges diaries, 116–17, 136–7, 145, 146, 148–9, 167–9; Priesack examines diaries, 119–20; forges Hitler’s poetry, 120–1, 135, 152–3; mistress, 122; police investigations, 123–4; learns of plane crash, 125–6; claims to have Hitler diaries, 125–6; Jaeckel accuses of forgery, 13 5–6; sells Nazi memorabilia to Heidemann, 160–1; crudeness of forgeries, 177; and the ‘authentication’ of the diaries, 179, 180, 194, 197–8; and Irving’s discovery of the diaries, 216, 217; forgeries of Hitler’s paintings, 113–14, 116, 118, 134, 161, 233–4, 386; and Heidemann’s pursuit of Bormann, 227–8; Heidemann protects, 244; other Hitler forgeries, 245–7; and the forensic tests, 250–1, 317; delivers final diaries, 337–8; forgery proved, 359–60; discovery of, 363–4, 370–3; arrest, 25–6, 373–4, 375; conspiracy theories for the fraud, 379–81; trial, 381–4

Kujau, Richard, 105

Kummer, Jochen, 316

Kunst dem Volk (Nazi magazine), 66

Laackman, Captain Anton, 227–8

Lang, Jochen von, 64, 78–9

Langen Mueller publishing company, 218, 231

Laqueur, Walter, 188

Last Days of Hitler, The , 22, 69, 252, 259

Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , 64, 151–2

Leonding (Hitler’s childhood home), 161–3

Lieberson, Sandy, 52

Lieblang, Edith, 106–10, 117, 122, 124, 127, 129, 133–4, 136–7, 148, 167, 172, 204, 338, 360, 372, 373, 381, 384

Lieblang Cleaning Company, 108, 109, 116, 122

Life , 303–4

Linge, Heinz, 46, 70, 71, 72, 75, 271

Linklater, Magnus, 214, 217–18, 235–6, 288, 300–2, 312–14, 342

London Standard , 325

Long, Gerald, 263, 264, 276, 277

Longleat, 113, 186–7

Lorret, Jean, 50

Lubbe, Marinus van der; 377–8

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, 246, 247

Lufthansa, 157

Luftwaffe, Graves Registration organization, 73

Lutje, Gunther, 203

MacArthur, Brian, 243, 314–15, 316, 318, 337, 367

McCloskey, Robert J., 385

McGraw-Hill Ltd, 25, 197–8

Macmillan, Harold, 252

Macmillan|Publishers, 222, 223

Mador, William, 238

Mail on Sunday , 243, 307, 315, 316

Marc, Franz, 113

Margaret, Princess, 67

Maser, Werner, 158–9, 161–2, 256, 305, 331, 348, 352

Mayer, Sidney, 140

Mein Kampf , 51, 53, 98, 99, 102, 116, 128, 139, 141, 158, 215, 259, 270, 330, 373

Mengele, Josef, 77, 82, 177

Menzel, Herybert, 135

Milch, Field Marshal, 81, 185

Miesbach, 349–50

Misch, Sergeant Rochus, 30, 71, 74

Mittelstrasser, Frau, 37–8

Modritsch, Maria, 122–3, 338, 360, 372, 373, 374

Mohn, Reinhard, 101, 149–50, 165, 288, 354, 365–6

Mohnke, General Wilhelm, 64, 65, 67, 74, 75, 77, 78, 84, 96–7, 151–2, 161, 213, 320

Moller, Peter, 203

Mondadori Publishers, 238, 291

Montgomery, Field Marshal, 57

Morell, Dr, 19

‘Mountain People’, 70, 75

Moynahan, Brian, 343

Murdoch, Rupert, 236, 244, 267, 379, 385; negotiations for diaries, 16, 24, 263–5, 269, 273, 275–6, 277–81, 282–3, 287; takes personal interest in diaries, 258, 261–2; plans publication, 288–91, 300–2; disregards Trevor-Roper’s doubts, 315, 342; forensic tests, 357; forgery proved, 358; comments on diary affair, 368

Mussolini, Benito, 35, 72, 75, 89, 271, 285, 323, 328; alleged correspondence with Churchill, 80–3, 87; treasure, 202; telegram, 278, 298–9, 320–1; forged diaries, 289–90, 301, 302, 366

Mussolini, Vittorio, 289, 290

Nannen, Henri, 89, 92, 101, 154–5, 284; founds Stern , 59–60; visits Carin II , 66–7; publishing agreement with Heidemann, 67–8, 75, 83; diaries concealed from, 139; and Plan 3, 200–1, 220; suspicions of Heidemann, 206–8, 247–8; decision to speed up publication, 238–9, 241–2; crisis meetings, 346, 348; press statement, 348–9; forgery proved, 356, 358; interrogation of Heidemann, 362–3; aftermath of the affair, 366, 371–2, 378

National Enquirer , 304, 386

NATO, 331, 333

Nazis: evacuation from Berlin, 30–2; neo-Nazism, 51; Heidemann’s interest in, 63, 64–5, 67–8, 75–6; Stern ’s interest in, 66–7, 70, 75–6; refugees in South America, 77–80; memorabilia, 84–6, 87–8, 111–12, 160, 175, 183–7, 386–7; Heidemann’s search for buried treasure of, 175–6; et passim