Robert Harris - Selling Hitler

NBC, 323, 359

Nesbit, Lynn, 231–2, 238, 241, 303

Neville Rare Books, 386

New Republic , 322

New York Daily News , 78

New York Post , 264, 386

New York Review of Books, 188

New York Times , 25, 232, 238, 282, 301, 303, 304, 306, 329, 361, 368, 378, 385

News International, 263, 265, 268–9, 273, 275–6, 278–81, 282, 291, 342, 358, 368, 381

Newsweek , 24, 44, 69, 232, 238, 241, 252, 263, 265–73, 275, 277–81, 282–3, 287–8, 291, 304–5, 306, 323, 327–9, 334–5, 350, 353, 385, 386

Norshe Presse, 291

Nuremberg rallies, 190

Nuremberg Trials, 158

Observer , 189, 306–7, 315, 341

Odessa network, 67

O’Donnell, James P., 44–5, 69–74, 75, 90, 100

Oldenhage, Dr Klaus, 178–9, 249, 256–7

Operation Nursery, 43

Operation Seraglio, 30–2, 73

Osborn, Osborn and Osborn, 197

‘Pact of Steel’, 82

Paeschke, Olaf, 201–2, 209, 229

El Pais , 238

Panorama (German television programme), 360, 372

Panorama (Italian magazine), 291

Panvini, Amalia, 289

Pardon , 52

Paris Match , 238, 291, 332

Parker, Maynard, 238, 252, 263, 265–8, 269–73, 275, 278, 283, 304, 328, 353, 385

Peale, Norman Vincent, 185

Pesch, Leo, 89, 202, 213, 238, 296, 349, 381; Plan 3, 201–2, 208–9, 219; preparation of diaries for publication, 199, 200, 205; and Irving’s discovery of the diaries, 217; contract, 219; and Heidemann’s pursuit of Bormann, 226–7; decision to speed up publication, 241–2; publicity campaign, 255; interrogation of Heidemann, 369–71; aftermath of the affair, 385

Petacci, Clara, 81

Phillips, Son & Neale, 386

Pickering, Sir Edward, 252, 263

Plan 3, 21–2, 201–2, 208, 219–20, 229, 231–2, 237, 238–9, 241, 258, 282

Plumb, J. H., 18

Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., The , 188

Potsdam Conference, 42

Potter, Elaine, 343

Price, Billy F., 54, 113, 118, 183–7, 189, 214, 223, 232–4, 386

Priesack, August, 117–20, 125–6, 183, 186–7, 189–91, 212, 214–18, 220–4, 230, 360, 386

Profil , 337

Puttnam, David, 52

Quick , 80, 141, 378

Radio Moscow, 25, 332–3, 340, 377

Rattenhuber, Hans, 72

Raubel, Geli, 114

Rauff, Walter, 77

Red Army, 17

Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), 37

Reitsch, Hanna, 75

Rendell, Kenneth, 350–1, 353

Rentz, Dr Arnold, 278, 292, 298, 317, 320–1, 336

Reuters, 24, 263, 298, 305, 306, 375

Rhineland–Pfalz police, 194–5, 196, 200

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 20, 184, 191

Richthofen, Field Marshal, 191

Riefenstahl, Leni, 53, 66

Roehm, Ernst, 319

Rommel, Field Marshal, 123, 133, 184

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 47

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 19, 331

Rosenberg, Alfred, 112

Rothermere, Lord, 243

Rowse, A. L., 326

Rudel, Hans-Ulrich, 230

Ruppert, Dr Andreas, 158, 354–6

Ryder, Lord, 243

Samson, Alan, 222

Schaich, Siegmund, 110

Schaub, Julius, 32–3, 192

Schirach, Baldur von, 232

Schirach, Henriette Hoffmann von, 232–3

Schladming, 36

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr, 45

Schmidt, Felix, 154–5, 172, 200; first sees diaries, 155–6; Plan 3, 208–9, 210, 238–9; and Heidemann’s pursuit of Bormann, 226; decision to speed up publication, 241; learns of special payments to Heidemann, 255; announces discovery of diaries, 297; and the forensic tests, 299; Stern press conference, 321; crisis meeting, 346; press statement, 348–9; forgery proved, 358–9; interrogation of Heidemann, 362–3; dismissal, 366; aftermath of the affair, 385

Schmidt, Helmut (quarryman), 343

Schmidt-Ehmen, Frau, 233

Schroeder, Christa, 44, 70, 73, 189, 233, 316

Schulte-Hillen, Gerd, 173, 237, 284; first sees diaries, 165–6; payments to Heidemann, 169–70, 254–5; fooled by Heidemann’s stories, 170–2; and the ‘authentication’ of the diaries, 178; preparation of diaries for publication, 174, 199–201; contracts with Heidemann and Walde, 205, 210–11, 218–19; relations with Heidemann, 205–6, 207–8; and the serialization rights, 229, 277–81, 282–3, 287–8; decision to speed up publication, 239, 241–7; and the legal rights to the diaries, 256, 280; and the forensic tests, 299–300; warned of risks in publishing diaries, 324–5; crisis meetings, 345–7; press statement, 348–9; forgery proved, 353–4, 356; interrogation of Heidemann, 362–3; offers resignation, 365–6; aftermath of the affair, 385

Schultze, Flying Officer, 31, 32

Schulze, Wolfgang, 110–11, 117

Schulze-Kossens, Richard, 70, 97, 316

Schustermann, Hannelore, 204, 278

Schweizer Bankgesellschaft, Zurich, 284

Searby, Richard, 263, 264, 276, 277

Sereny, Gitta, 117, 234–6, 302, 337, 343, 361–2, 363, 380

Seufert, Michael, 363, 364, 369–70

Shirer, William L., 330

Shuh, Hans, 348

Signal , 140

Simon and Schuster, 79

Siri, Rudolfo, 78

SMERSH, 42

Snyder, Charles, 54, 387

Sonnenburg, Rohl, 78

Sorge, Wilfried, 93, 134, 150, 170, 205, 227, 266, 268, 345; first hears of diaries, 91–2, 100–2; sees diaries, 138–9; contract with Heidemann, 141–3; payments to Heidemann, 145–7, 166; diaries shown to Stern editors, 155–6; meets Medard Klapper, 174, 176; and the ‘authentication’ of the diaries, 23, 180–2, 194, 259–60; preparation of diaries for publication, 200, 209–10; sale of rights to the diaries, 229, 231–2, 237–8, 269, 276, 279, 281, 282, 291; decision to speed up publication, 241–5, 248; publicity campaign, 251, 255; and Rupert Murdoch, 264; and Weinberg’s inspection of the diaries, 271–2; aftermath of the affair, 385

Sotheby’s, 113

South America, 77–80, 163

Soviet Union, 17; and Hitler’s death, 41–2, 45–6, 72; reactions to diaries, 332–3, 377–8

Spacil, Colonel Wilhelm, 37, 38

Spain, 204

Speer, Albert, 22, 44, 70, 185, 186, 235

Der Spiegel , 200, 306, 327, 344–5

Spoegler, Franz, 80–1, 83

SS, 44, 65, 77, 141, 157, 175, 285, 349–50, 378

Stalin, Josef, 19, 41–2, 200, 328

Stangl, Franz, 234

Steiner, George, 188, 330

Steiner, Rolf, 85

Stern , 52, 127, 134, 140; and the ‘authentication’ of the diaries, 15–16, 20–4, 173–4, 177–82, 192–8, 202, 259–62; Heidemann works for, 58, 59–63; character of, 59–60, 66; interest in Nazism, 66–7, 70, 75–6; and the search for Bormann, 78–9, 226; finances Heidemann’s trip to South America, 80; sceptical of Heidemann’s claims, 88–9; and Heidemann’s search for Hitler diaries, 90–4, 100; Hitler diaries concealed from, 101–2, 139, 146–7, 149; Heidemann’s contract, 142–3; prints Hitler’s ‘poetry’, 152–3; shown Hitler diaries, 155–6, 158; and the legal rights to the diaries, 158–9, 256–7, 280; uses Heidemann’s interview with Barbie, 163–4; Medard Klapper and, 174, 176; preparation of diaries for publication, 199–202; suspicions of Heidemann, 208; and Plan 3, 208–9, 220; sale of rights to diaries, 24, 231–2, 263–5, 275–6, 277–81, 282–3, 287, 291; decision to speed up publication, 238–48; and the forensic tests, 249–51, 316–17, 349; publicity campaign, 251, 255; Trevor-Roper quotations, 276–7; Hitler issue, 283, 284, 288, 319–20; announces discovery of diaries, 297–8, 303–4; press conference, 315, 316, 319, 320–6; television interviews, 333–4, 335; crisis meetings, 345–8; press statement, 348–9; second Hitler issue, 352; forgery proved, 25, 353–64; interrogation of Heidemann, 362–4; aftermath of the affair, 365–72, 384; and the trial, 383–4